11 PhD programmes offered by the university

The department is perhaps best known for its doctoral programs in the epidemiology of cancer, aging, lifecourse epidemiology (including perinatal and pediatric epidemiology), genomics, HIV/AIDS and social determinants of health. We offer a Chronic Disease Epidemiology degree at Yale University.

Our vision in the Medicine program at Yale University is to train rigorous, visionary and resilient physician-scientists who are committed to improving health of individuals and populations.

The School of Public Health at Yale University is uniquely sized, structured, and purpose-built to identify and integrate expertise from virtually every field - within our school, across Yale, and beyond academia - to create innovative, high-impact solutions that address today's and tomorrow's public health challenges.

The Nursing Practice (DNP) program at Yale University is designed for Advanced Practice Nurses (APN) who have graduated from a MSN program and are interested in pursuing a program to enhance their clinical innovation skills and develop a clinical area of expertise in their practice area.

The Investigative Medicine Program at the Yale University is an innovative training program in clinical investigation for physicians that leads to a Ph.D. degree in Investigative Medicine awarded from the Yale Graduate school of Arts and Sciences.

The doctoral program in Health Policy and Management (HPM) at Yale University is designed to develop scholars that are able to apply theoretical frameworks from the social sciences (such as economics, political science, organizational theory and management, sociology) to address pressing health policy and management research questions. 

The goals of doctoral training with a concentration in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale University are to provide a current theoretical and practical base of epidemiological and microbiological principles, to master research methods, and to apply these skills to investigations of the biology of infectious organisms. 

PHD Environmental Health Sciences at Yale University will contribute new knowledge in understanding the impact of environmental stressors - physical, chemical, and biological - on human health and comfort.

The Department of Immunobiology at Yale University is a multidisciplinary group of 30 faculty and more than 200 scientists-in-training and staff committed to understanding all aspects of the immune system. 

The Nursing PhD program at the Yale University prepares intellectual leaders who can contribute to the development of nursing science through their theoretical, substantive, and methodological knowledge and skills.

The Experimental Pathology Graduate Program at Yale University is committed to building and maintaining a supportive community in which students from diverse backgrounds and experiences are supported in their professional development and social and intellectual goals.