Approved Courses for Research Degree Students (PH)

Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health

PhD students are required to fulfill the stipulated core courses and electives requirements.

Core Courses for PhD Students (9 credits):

Code Course Title Credits 2024 - 2025
Semester / Term
PH5101 Introduction to Health Economics and Outcomes Research 3 A
PH5102 Introduction to Biostatistics in One Health 3 A
PH5103 Principles of Epidemiology and One Health 3 A
PH6201 Advanced Epidemiology 3 B
PH6204 Public Health Surveillance 3 Summer
PH6205 Intermediate Level Statistics for One Health 3 B
PH8001 Computational Biology, Experimental Design and Data Science 3 Summer
PH8002 Infectious Disease Epidemiology 3 B
PH8003 Communication Skills - Conference Organisation 3 B
BMS8102 Frontiers in Biomedical Research 2 -
BMS8103 Cell and Molecular Biology Research # 3 A
BMS8105 Biotheraphy and Nanomedicine 3 A
BMS8106 Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine 3 A
BMS8107 Cancer Biology and Precision Medicine 3 B
BMS8110 Genomics and Bioinformatics 3 A
BMS8111 Immunology and Infectious Diseases 3 B

 

Research Methodology and Ethics Course(s) for PhD Students (2 credits):

Code Course Title Credits 2024 - 2025
Semester / Term
BMS8001 Research Ethics and Methodology 2 A

 

Electives for PhD Students*(3 credits):

Code Course Title Credits 2024 - 2025
Semester / Term
PH5101 Introduction to Health Economics and Outcomes Research 3 A
PH5102 Introduction to Biostatistics in One Health 3 A
PH5103 Principles of Epidemiology and One Health 3 A
PH6201 Advanced Epidemiology 3 B
PH6204 Public Health Surveillance 3 Summer
PH6205 Intermediate Level Statistics for One Health 3 B
BMS8105 Biotherapy and Nanomedicine 3 A
BMS8106 Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine 3 A
BMS8107 Cancer Biology and Precision Medicine 3 B
BMS8110 Genomics and Bioinformatics 3 A
BMS8111 Immunology and Infectious Diseases 3 B


- PH offers PhD programme and currently has no MPhil programme.

- BMS8108 is only available for 2023 cohort or before.

* A course can be taken as either a core course or an elective only. Electives will be offered subject to sufficient enrolment.

# The number of credit units of BMS8103 is changed from 2 to 3 effective from Semester A 2020/2021. It is not applicable to students who took the course in Semester A 2019/2020 or before.