Prerequisites | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health

The Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program at the Bloomberg School is designed for the public health professional who intends to pursue a leadership position anchored in evidence-based decision making. The courses listed below provide an academic foundation on which the DrPH program builds.

Students must complete fundamental coursework in biostatistics or epidemiology, either before or after matriculation. The following courses are prerequisites for the DrPH program. If students have not taken these courses or equivalent ones within the past 5 years (for a B or higher), they will be required to take them after matriculation. Students who take the prerequisite coursework after matriculation cannot apply the credits toward the minimum credit requirement for the DrPH degree. For biostatistics, the prerequisites can be fulfilled with a course in statistical methods or with two courses in statistical reasoning.

Code	Title	Credits
Epidemiology
PH.340.721	Epidemiologic Inference in Public Health I	5
Biostatistics: Statistical Reasoning
PH.140.611	Statistical Reasoning in Public Health I	3
PH.140.612	Statistical Reasoning in Public Health II	3
Biostatistics: Statistical Methods
PH.140.621	Statistical Methods in Public Health I	4
When students matriculate into the DrPH program, their prior coursework will be reviewed and considered for fulfillment of the core requirements. Students will be asked to submit course descriptions and syllabi for prior coursework in order to evaluate the comparability of topics and learning objectives. Students will be informed through any core requirements they need to address through coursework or waiver exams. The coursework and/or waiver exams may be completed during the DrPH Program; they do not need to be completed prior to matriculation.