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The department of population health offers a variety of degree options and graduate courses. In health, a master of public health is offered with five majors.

MPH PROGRAM

Public health is a multidisciplinary field whose goal is to promote the health of the population through organized community efforts. According to the American Public Health Association (APHA), public health is prevention; public health is policy development and population health surveillance; and public health save money, improves quality of life, helps children thrive, and reduces human suffering.

The MPH degree program is fully accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) and can be completed in a minimum of four semesters for full-time students and eight semesters for part-time students.

The Environmental and Occupational Health (ENVH) curriculum focuses on a combination of scientific, technical, and regulatory aspects of public health related to the assessment and control of hazardous physical, chemical, and biological agents in non-occupational and occupational environments. The major focus is recognition, evaluation, and control of human exposures to contaminated air, water, soil, and food.

Learning Outcomes:

PLO 1. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice;
PLO 2. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context;
PLO 3. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming and software, as appropriate;
PLO 4. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy or practice;
PLO 5. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Compare the organization, structure, and function of health care, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings;
PLO 6. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels;
PLO 7. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities' health;
PLO 8. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design or implementation of public health policies or programs;
PLO 9. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Design a population-based policy, program, project, or intervention;
PLO 10. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management;
PLO 11. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Select methods to evaluate public health programs;
PLO 12. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Discuss multiple dimensions of the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence;
PLO 13. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes;
PLO 14. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations;
PLO 15. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity;
PLO 16. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Apply principles of leadership, governance, and management, which includes creating a vision, empowering others, fostering collaboration, and guiding decision making;
PLO 17. FOUNDATIONAL COMPETENCIES: Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges;