PhD Global Communicable Disease

Concentration: Global Communicable Disease (TCD)
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health
Delivery: Traditional

Graduates of the doctoral program will be qualified to conduct fundamental and applied research in identification, evaluation and prevention of tropical and communicable diseases. The global communicable disease (GCD) PhD program encompasses a wide variety of research interests. Faculty research areas—and research areas available for PhD research and training—include genomics, molecular parasitology and infectious disease ecology. Please review faculty web pages for an overview of faculty research interests.

PhD Progression Policy

Know the progression policy for the PHD and DRPH.

Program of Study

If you have questions on your program, please contact the Doctoral Training Office at cophdoctoral@usf.edu. 

Current students may access their Degree Works planner from my.usf.edu or OASIS. Students may view their current progress in Archivum at usf.appiancloud.com/. (See Archivum instructions.). If you are not a current student, or want to view program requirements from a different catalog year please use these sources:  

• 2024/25 USF Catalog PhD Planner or COPH catalog section

• 2023/24 USF Catalog PHD section (pg. 795)

• 2022/23 USF Catalog PHD section (pg. 808)

• 2021/22 USF Catalog PHD section (pg. 786)

• 2020/21 USF Catalog PHD section (pg. 795)

• Any prior year please view the USF Graduate Catalog Archives 

There may be circumstances in which a student may need to change their catalog year. This must be initiated through a discussion with your academic advisor. Details regarding USF policy on changing catalog year can be found in the Student’s Major Degree Requirements section of the USF Graduate Catalog’s Academic Policies. 

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