Curriculum

Required Coursework

ENT/PMI 214 (Changing Patterns of Vector-borne Infections) or an approved equivalent course
Two elective courses or seminars

Examples of acceptable equivalent courses include:

MMI 215 Medical Parasitology
VME 158/258 Infectious Disease in Ecology and Conservation
ENT 153 Medical Entomology

Other course substitutions for this required course will be considered by the DEBVBD Chair.

Elective courses or Seminars can be fulfilled by completing the requirements of their PhD degree programs (see below for examples) or as approved by the DEBVBD Chair.

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College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Department of Entomology and Nematology

ENT 153 Medical Entomology
ENT 102 Insect Physiology
ENT 212 Molecular Biology of Insects and Insect Viruses
ENT 253 Advanced Medical Entomology
ENT 290 Current Topics in GMO Research Seminar
ENT 291N Current topics in Medical Veterinary Entomology Seminar
ENT 292N Current topics in Insect Physiology & Behavior Seminar
ENT 293N Current topics in Insect Biotechnology & Genomics Seminar

Graduate Group in Ecology

ECL 207 Plant Population Biology
ECL 208 Issues in Conservation Biology
ECL 216 Ecology and Agriculture
ECL 231 Mathematical Methods in Population Biology
ECL 232 Theoretical Ecology
ECL 233 Computational Methods in Population Biology
ECL 243 Ecological Genomics
ECL 245 Climate Change, Water and Society
ECL 262 Advanced Population Dynamics

School of Medicine

Anthony Cornel (foreground). Photos depicting field work for ongoing USAID PEERS grant "Using geospatial tools to investigate how deforestation affects the transmission of malaria in birds." October 2015 - September 2018. PI of the grant is Damion Anong (University of Buea) and Anthony Cornel and Ravinder Sehgal are collaborators. Ten students from University of Buea are part of the project.

Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

MMI 215 Medical Parasitology
MMI 208 Emerging Challenges in Microbiology and Immunology Seminar

Department of Public Health Sciences

EPP 101 Perspectives in Community Health
EPP 244 Introduction to Medical Statistics
EPP 245 Statistical Analysis of Laboratory Data
EPP 246 Biostatistics for Clinical Research
EPP 247 Biostatistics for Epidemiology
EPP 273 Topics in Public Health Seminar
EPP 295 International Health Care Seminar

Department of Internal Medicine

IDI141 Infectious Diseases of Humans
IDI 211 Epidemiology and Prevention of Infectious Diseases

School of Veterinary Medicine

A photomicrograph of an Anopheles stephensi midgut with Plasmodium falciparum oocysts — Midgut of an Anopheles gambiae mosquito populated with oocysts from the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Graduate Group in Immunology

IMM 201 Basic Immunology
IMM 204 Innate Immunology
IMM 293 Current Concepts in Immunology
IMM 295 Cytokines

Department of Medicine and Epidemiology

EPI 204 Statistical Models, Methods and Data Analysis for Scientists
EPI 205A Principles of Epidemiology
EPI 205 B Integration of Basic Epidemiologic Concepts
EPI 206 Epidemiologic Study Design

Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

PMI 128 Biology of Animal Viruses
PMI 291A Seminar in Immunology
PMI 293A Seminar in Infectious Diseases
PMI 418 Health and Disease in Terrestrial Wildlife
PMI 419 Field Techniques for Assessment of Wildlife and Ecosystem Health

Department of Population Health and Reproduction

MPM 402 Medical Statistics I
MPM 403 Medical Statistics II
MPM 404 Medical Statistics III
PHR 212 Epidemiology of the Zoonoses
PHR 266 Applied Analytic Epidemiology

Courses not listed here can be submitted for approval to the DEBVBD Chair to fulfill elective credits