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Public Health Master’s Degrees in Epidemiology: What Questions to Ask

BU School of Public Health Blog

I asked a couple of our faculty program directors what they want prospective students to know about our epidemiology master’s programs here at Boston University School of Public Health: “The Master’s of Science (MS) Program in Epidemiology is ideal for students with strong analytic interests who are passionate about health equity.

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Overadjustment – an important bias hiding in plain sight

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

In our scoping review published in IJE , we developed 12 criteria based on previous literature on overadjustment bias and used these to look at potential approaches to managing overadjustment bias in 84 systematic reviews of health inequalities. Int J Epidemiol 2024; 53: dyad177 van Zwieten A, Blyth FM, Wong G, Khalatbari-Soltani S.

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Public Health Master’s Degrees Programs: What To Look For

BU School of Public Health Blog

I asked a couple of our faculty program directors what they want prospective students to know about our epidemiology master’s programs here at Boston University School of Public Health: “The Master’s of Science (MS) Program in Epidemiology is ideal for students with strong analytic interests who are passionate about health equity.