cactus 88

About me: I graduated 5 years ago with a BA in English & Spanish. After working in public health for about a year I went on to do a MS in Epidemiology, which I loved and did well in. Both degrees were done in the UK. Moved back to the US 2 years ago thinking I might want to go to medical school, so have been working in clinical research at a large academic school and taking med-school pre-reqs (bio, physics, chemistry, biochem, etc) on the side. After working closely with physicians and getting to see a lot of different elements of clinical medicine/research, I am reconsidering my career path (again...), and am becoming more interested in the research/bioinformatics side of medicine. Luckily my MS was quantitatively strong and I have taken classes in calculus, biostats, bayes, and infectious disease modeling already. For those accepted to, pursuing, or graduated from a PhD in stats/biostats...what do you think my chances of acceptance are? If 0, what would improve them? Thanks for your advice!

Hello and thanks for starting this thread! I am looking at applying to some Canadian MPH programs as well, but am coming into it a bit blind since I don't know much (if anything) about the Canadian education system. I currently work in a non-health field but want to make the switch into Health Promotion with a concentration in Global Health as well. My specs: I am American but did my undergrad (in English and Spanish) in the UK - graduated with a high 2:1. I spent 7 months doing an exchange in Uruguay and did some volunteering at a human rights NGO whilst I was there. I have also lived abroad in Argentina and traveled a lot in central/south America and Spain. I am currently volunteering in an HIV/AIDS clinic and tutor Spanish part-time. I am also planning to apply to University of Toronto for Health Promotion with Global Health. Does anyone know anything more about places like McGill, McMaster, UBC or others that offer good MPH programs? And how difficult these places are to get into. Like I said, really in the dark about these. Thanks!