PhD Program

The PhD program is designed to train students in advanced research in health sciences, and to provide them with the skills, content area expertise, analytical and critical-thinking capabilities required to pursue original research relevant to health. Consistent with the mandate and objectives of the FHS mission, the PhD program will introduce students to interdisciplinary approaches to research that will encourage them to develop cross-disciplinary research skills. Areas of disciplinary emphasis in the Faculty include: social science, epidemiology, biostatistics, policy analysis, ethics and laboratory-based biomedical science. Research areas in the FHS are interdisciplinary and include:

• global health
• environmental health and toxicology
• maternal and child health, epidemiology and disease prevention
• chronic and infectious diseases
• population and public health
• mental health & addiction
• social inequities and health outcomes
• adolescent and child development, reproductive health
• health policy