Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Program

The Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Program at UIC is a collaborative effort of the Maternal and Child Health Program/Community Health Sciences Division and the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division. Students in the program are required to follow a course of study that combines the assessment, planning, analytic methods, and MCH courses of the Community Health Sciences Division with the epidemiology requirements of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division. Because the focus of the program is on the application of epidemiologic and other analytic methods to the resolution of current MCH problems, students are required to work with state or local health agencies for their field practicum (MPH) or dissertation (PhD). Graduates of these programs will have the analytic skills to enable them to perform many of the activities of the MCH planning cycle at a very high level: surveillance, assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and policy development. Special funding is available for qualified first-year and continuing doctoral students in the MCH Epidemiology Program.

For further information, contact Jennifer Bowe, Graduate Education Coordinator, Maternal and Child Health Program, at (312) 413-5625, or David Mulvihill, Academic Coordinator, Community Health Sciences Division, at (312) 996-8940.