# UC Davis Graduate Studies

**Source**: https://grad.ucdavis.edu/programs/gepd
**Parent**: https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/departments-programs-degrees/epidemiology/epidemiology-phd/

# Epidemiology

## About the Program

### Learn More About the Program

[Visit the Program](https://gge.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/)

[Email the Program](mailto:zgarza@ucdavis.edu)

Students gain advanced knowledge of chronic and infectious disease; zoonoses and food-borne disease; nutritional, occupational, reproductive and wildlife epidemiology; and the development of new epidemiologic and biostatistical methods. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in the concepts and methods in biology, economics, mathematics and statistics with the goals of understanding the distribution and determinants of disease, injury, and impaired productivity in populations and recommending actions for prevention or control.

Degree Type

Interdisciplinary Graduate Group

Degrees Offered

M.S. Plan I \
M.S. Plan II \
Ph.D. Plan B

Lead Dean

School of Veterinary Medicine

Degree Requirements

[2025](https://programs.gs.ucdavis.edu/api/doc/4530)

[2022](https://programs.gs.ucdavis.edu/api/doc/4075)

[2021](https://programs.gs.ucdavis.edu/api/doc/3817)

[2013](https://programs.gs.ucdavis.edu/api/doc/2987)

[2005](https://programs.gs.ucdavis.edu/api/doc/2988)

Administrative ByLaws

[2021](https://programs.gs.ucdavis.edu/api/doc/3816)

Major Code

GEPD

Exceptions

QE Exception: No outside member needed

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## Admissions and Fellowship Information

Admission Requirements

[UC Davis General Admission Requirements](https://grad.ucdavis.edu/applying-uc-davis)
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[Program Admissions Requirements](https://gge.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/admissions)

Admission Deadlines

Priority: Dec 15, 2025\
General: Feb 15, 2026\

Internal Fellowship Deadlines

Prospective Student Fellowship: Dec 15, 2025\
Continuing Student Fellowship: Jan 15, 2026

### Admissions Actions

[Request Admissions Info](https://apply.grad.ucdavis.edu/register/?id=9c9a7154-1f83-4dfa-a1c8-e60f719b1b81)

[Apply for Admission](https://grad.ucdavis.edu/node/841)

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## Program Contact Information

### Primary Program Contacts

Graduate Program Coordinator

**Program Coordinator**\
 Zechariah Garza
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[zgarza@ucdavis.edu](mailto:zgarza@ucdavis.edu)

Graduate Program Chair

**Graduate Group Chair**\
 Christopher Barker
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[cmbarker@ucdavis.edu](mailto:cmbarker@ucdavis.edu)

### Additional Contacts

Program Contacts

**Advisor: Primary Contact**\
 Christopher Barker
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Epidemiology \
[cmbarker@ucdavis.edu](mailto:cmbarker@ucdavis.edu)

**Advisor: General**\
 Shuai Chen
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Epidemiology \
[shschen@ucdavis.edu](mailto:shschen@ucdavis.edu)

**Advisor: General**\
 Beatriz Martinez Lopez
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Epidemiology \
(530) 752-7675 | [beamartinezlopez@ucdavis.edu](mailto:beamartinezlopez@ucdavis.edu)

Graduate Studies Contacts

**Senior Academic Advisor**\
 Sarah Hamid
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(530) 754-2355 | [shamid@ucdavis.edu](mailto:shamid@ucdavis.edu)