Community Health Concentration
Community Health is one of three areas of concentration of the Community Public Health program. It is a 46-credit program leading to the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree. The program is designed for students who seek graduate training in planning and evaluating programs designed to promote health and prevent disease in diverse population groups. It prepares students for careers in local, state, federal, and international health agencies as well as in community and non-profit organizations.
Program Goals
The MPH trains students to integrate the knowledge, skills, and experience fundamental to all public health disciplines and to apply this integrated knowledge to prevent health problems among diverse population groups. This goal is accomplished through training in public health fundamentals--biostatistics, epidemiology, research methods, environmental health sciences, health services administration, social and behavioral sciences, and program planning and evaluation. The program places great emphasis on the application of material learned in courses to practical experience obtained through supervised fieldwork placements.
The goals of the Community Health concentration are to prepare health professionals to:
- Identify and assess preventable health problems among diverse population
groups in the United States and
internationally. - Identify the social, cultural, economic, environmental, and institutional
factors that contribute to the risk of
health problems among populations. - Develop educational and other population-based intervention strategies to improve morbidity and mortality.
- Develop policies to reduce barriers to improved health status.
- Apply population-based research findings to the development and implementation
of health policies and
programs in the United States and internationally.
Course Sequence
For students matriculating in the Fall semester:
1st Fall semester
E33.2000.003 New Graduate Student Seminar (0)
E10.2995 Biostatistics I (3)
E33.2322 History & Principles of Public Health (3)
E33.2355 Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health (3)
P11.1830 Community Health & Medical Care (4)
1st Spring semester
E10.2996 Biostatistics II (3) [prerequisite: E10.2995 ]
E33.2306 Epidemiology (3) [prerequisite: E10.2995 ]
E33.2361 Research Methods in Public Health (3) [prerequisite:
E10.2995]
E33.2405 Health Communication: Theory and Practice (3)
2nd Fall semester
E33.2356 Environmental Health Problems (3)
E33.2318 Assessing Community Health Needs (3) [prerequisite:
E10,2996, E33.2306, E33.2361]
E33.2410 Community-Based Health Interventions (3) [prerequisite: E33.2361]
_______ Elective ____________________________
2nd Spring semester*
E33.2349 Program Planning and Evaluation (3) [prerequisite:
E33.2318, E33.2355 ]
E33.2360 Internship and Seminar in Public Health (3)
_______ Elective ____________________________
1st Spring semester
E33.2000.003 New Graduate Student Seminar (0)
E33.2361 Research Methods in Public Health (3) [prerequisite:
E10.2995 or permission of instructor]
P11.1830 Community Health & Medical Care (4)
E33.2405 Health Communication: Theory and Practice (3)
_______ Elective ____________________________
1st Fall semester
E10.2995 Biostatistics I (3)
E33.2322 History & Principles of Public Health (3)
E33.2355 Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health (3)
E33.2318 Assessing Community Health Needs (3) [prerequisite:
E10.2996, E33.2306, E33.2361]
2nd Spring semester
E10.2996 Biostatistics II (3) [prerequisite: E10.2995 ]
E33.2306 Epidemiology (3) [prerequisite: E10.2995 ]
E33.2349 Program Planning and Evaluation (3) [prerequisite:
E33.2318, E33.2355 ]
_______ Elective ____________________________
2nd Fall semester*
E33.2356 Environmental Health Problems (3)
E33.2360 Internship and Seminar in Public Health (3)
E33.2410 Community-Based Health Interventions (3) [prerequisite: E33.2361]