Community Health Core (36 credits)

• HSMP 671 Health Policy Credits: 3
• HSMP 673 Values & Ethics in Health Credits: 3
• HSMP 681 Population Health: Policy & Practice Implications Credits: 3
• PHE 512  /  PHE 612 Principles of Health Behavior Credits: 3
• PHE 622 Health & Social Inequalities Credits: 3
• PHE 626 Teaching & Learning in Health Promotion & Social Work Credits: 3
• PHE 632 Developmental Origins of Health & Human Disease Epidemiology Credits: 3
• PUBH 600 Essentials of Doctoral Training Credits: 3

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• Select one (3 cr.)

• ESHH 519 Environmental Health in a Changing World Credits: 3
• ESHH 612 Global & Planetary Health Concepts Credits: 3

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• Select three (9 cr.)

• CPH 621 Social Determinants of Health Credits: 3
• CPH 622 Communicating Public Health Data Credits: 3
• CPH 631 Social Justice and Public Health Credits: 3
• CPH 640 Systems Thinking for Public Health Credits: 3
• PHE 510 Special Topics Credits: 1 to 4
• PHE 610 Special Topics Credits: 1 to 4
• PHE 541 Media Advocacy & Public Health Credits: 3
• PHE 546 Urban & Community Health Credits: 3
• PHE 555 Decolonizing Public Health Research: Epidemiology, Epistemology, & Embodiment Credits: 3

Methods Core (20 credits)

• BSTA 611 Estimation & Hypothesis Testing for Applied Biostatistics Credits: 4
• BSTA 612 Linear Models Credits: 4
• CPH 636 Community Based Participatory Research Credits: 3
• EPI 640 Research Proposal and Design Credits: 3
• PHE 620 Qualitative Research Design Credits: 3
• PHE 634 Social Epidemiology Methods & Theory Credits: 3

Doctoral Seminar (6 credits)

• PHE 623 Doctoral Seminar in Health Research Credits: 1  (6 credits required)

Elective Courses (19 credits)

Course selected with program approval. Must include at least 3 credits at the 600 level. May include independent research credits with approval of faculty advisor and program director.

• Methods Electives (6 cr.)
• Community Health Electives (8 cr.)
• Other Electives (5 cr.)

Students who matriculate without a prior MPH degree must take the following courses, which will be applied to the electives:

• BSTA 525 Introduction to Biostatistics Credits: 4 [Methods elective]
• EPI 612 Epidemiology I Credits: 4 [Other electives]
• PHE 511 Foundations of Public Health Credits: 3 [Other electives]

Dissertation (27 credits)

• PHE 603 Dissertation Credits: 1 to 12  (27 credits required)

Non-course Requirements

• Comprehensive examination
• Doctoral dissertation and defense