Program Overview

Introduction to the Graduate Program

The Graduate School of Public Health at Yonsei University offers a comprehensive program in Health Informatics and Biostatistics. This program is designed to meet the needs of the big data era by developing and applying new statistical methods suitable for public health and medicine.

Program Overview

The Health Informatics and Biostatistics program combines biostatistics, ICT (Information and Communication Technology), and Health Information Management to efficiently utilize big data. This field has great growth potential by creating new high-value-added knowledge. The program provides opportunities for in-depth learning by combining theory and practice through a community link between students, assistants, and professors, responding to the needs of the era of big data in a convergence major for development, application, and utilization of new statistical methods and health informatics techniques for public health and medicine improvement and innovation in the big data era context and challenges and opportunities in the field of health informatics and biostatistics for the development of new methodologies and applications in the field of public health and medicine and the improvement of health outcomes through the use of health informatics and biostatistics techniques and methodologies in the context of the big data era and its implications for public health and medicine and the role of health informatics and biostatistics in addressing these challenges and opportunities and the potential for growth and innovation in the field of health informatics and biostatistics and its applications in public health and medicine.

Core Curriculum

The core curriculum for the Health Informatics and Biostatistics program includes:

• Biostatistics
• Practice in biostatistics
• Regression analysis
• Multivariate data analysis
• Longitudinal data analysis
• Statistical analysis using R
• Statistical methods in clinical trials
• Health information management
• Database management
• Big data and data mining
• Thesis of biostatistics I

Research Areas

The Graduate School of Public Health at Yonsei University is involved in various research areas, including:

• National Health Promotion Research Institute
• Yonsei Medical Library
• Yonsei Medical Journal

Graduate Program List

The Graduate School of Public Health offers the following graduate programs:

• Graduate Program
• Hospital Administration
• Health Policy and Management
• Epidemiology & Biostatistics
• Community Health Nursing
• Environmental Health
• Occupational Health
• Health Informatics & Biostatistics
• Global Health
• Public Health Law & Ethics
• KOICA Program
  • Health Security
  • Health Policy and Financing
  • Infectious Disease Control

Yonsei University Health System

Yonsei University Health System includes:

• Severance Hospital
• Yonsei Cancer Hospital
• Severance Cardiovascular Hospital
• Severance Children's Hospital
• Severance EYE Hospital
• Severance Rehabilitation Hospital
• Yonsei University Dental Hospital
• Gangnam Severance Hospital
  • Gangnam Severance Heart Brain Vascular Hospital
  • Gangnam Severance Cancer Hospital
  • Gangnam Severance Spine Hospital
  • Gangnam Severance Dental Hospital
• Yongin Severance Hospital

Yonsei University

Yonsei University includes:

• Yonsei University College of Medicine
• Yonsei University College of Dentistry
• Yonsei University College of Nursing
• Graduate School of Public Health Yonsei University
• Yonsei University Medical Library