The Department of Community Health Sciences is concerned with social and behavioral research applied to health, health promotion, maternal and child health, nutrition, and public health practice.

Faculty and student research activities focus on programs, policies, and actions that can promote health in the context of social, cultural, political, economic and environmental factors. Of particular interest is how social and cultural factors, social programs, the health care system, and social policies influence health beliefs and perceptions, health behaviors and health status within populations taking disparities into account.

The curriculum integrates basic theories, research methods and programmatic strategies and applies them to real problems of human populations.