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Ahmedabad University’s Bagchi School of Public Health aims to improve public health and the environment locally, nationally, and globally through research, training, and developing, disseminating, and implementing sustainable evidence-based interventions, programmes, and policies. It builds on the unique strengths and focus of Ahmedabad University on interdisciplinary education to train individuals equipped to develop innovative solutions that are both contemporary and holistic to address the challenges of the 21st century.

Currently the School is focusing on Environmental Health, as well as on Analytical Sciences. The latter includes both traditional approaches (Epidemiology and Biostatistics) as well as novel approaches (Data Science) to design, analyse and understand large complex datasets. We plan to include these as complementary specialisation areas within Analytical Sciences, which can be applied to understand both environmental concerns as well as lifestyle factors that impact health. Understanding complex risk/preventive factors that impact health will enable the development and implementation of data-driven evidence-based interventions to reduce climate change and its impact.  

The long-term goal of the Bagchi School of Public Health is to encompass key public health components and core competencies at or above global standards and to create novel integrative initiatives. In addition to speciality training programmes, we are also driven to increase awareness of public health issues and promote solutions through educating and inspiring a range of disciplines and the public at large.

Study mode: Full time. Part-time option is available only for the Indian students as per the extant statutory guidelines.

Duration: Funding is available for 5 years, and we expect the students to complete their programme within that time frame.

Starts on: Classes start on August 2025

Fees: Fully funded for all full-time students. 

Core Courses which will be covered in the PhD in Epidemiology: 

• Principles of Epidemiology
• Applied Statistics
• Infectious Disease Epidemiology
• Research Writing
• Research Ethics
• Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Disease
• Environmental Health
• Study Design and Developing a Research Proposal
• Research Methods for human population based research
• Multivariate Data Analysis and Interpretation
• Introduction to Data Science

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Programs and courses at Bagchi School of Public Health, Ahmedabad University