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

• 06 - Physical and life sciences and technologies
• 26. - Biological and biomedical sciences
• 26.13 - Ecology, evolution, systematics and population biology

26.1309 - Epidemiology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific study of disease, disability, and trauma patterns within and across populations and the development of health management mechanisms to prevent and control disease outbreaks and injurious behaviours. These programs include courses in biostatistics, biochemistry, molecular biology, immunology, disease and injury determinants, genetic disease and disability factors, behavioural studies, health services research, environmental disease and injury factors, and population studies.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • epidemiology

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • disease registry data management(51.0721)
  • epidemiology and biostatistics(26.1311)
  • immunology(26.0507)
  • public health (MPH, DPH)(51.2201)
  • public health medicine - residency(61.2301)
  • veterinary epidemiology(01.8110)
  • virology(26.0504)