DrPH

The DrPH is a schoolwide degree and the highest professional degree for the public health generalist. Students focus on public health practice and acquire broad knowledge related to professional skills. Students can pursue their passion by concentrating on any field of environmental health sciences, such as air quality; environmental biology; environmental chemistry; environmental health practice and policy; industrial hygiene; toxicology; or water quality. The dissertation is of an applied, practical, problem-solving nature.

Epidemiology focuses on the health problems in population groups. The scope of this exciting field ranges from the study of the causes of disease to the control of prevention of disease and the distribution of health resources.The DrPH in Epidemiology is a schoolwide degree intended mainly for students who wish to work in public health agencies as epidemiologists.

The DrPH is a schoolwide professional degree that prepares students for the highest level of practice in the Community Health Sciences. Training for the DrPH is multifaceted, encompassing the broad spectrum of expertise necessary for professional practice in the Community Health Sciences.

The DrPH program is suited to those individuals who wish to apply various statistical methods to the solution of problems in the health sciences. This program provides substantial public health training, in addition to training in a large number of statistical methods that are of particular use in studying problems in public health. The nature of the DrPH dissertation is applied problem solving.