Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Alternative primary groupings

• 10 - Health and related fields
• 51. - Health professions and related programs
• 51.22 - Public health

51.2214 - Public health genetics

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals to respond to the complex social, legal, ethical, and public health policy implications generated by genetic research. These programs include courses in biochemical genetics of complex diseases, bioethics, chromosomes and human disease, genetic counselling, genetic epidemiology, gene mapping, human population genetics, and the molecular basis of human inherited disease.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • public health genetics

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• Exclusion(s)

  • medical genetics(26.0806)
  • public health (MPH, DPH)(51.2201)