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DrPH in Community & Behavioral Health

This program is designed to help you become a public health leader. You'll learn how to develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based programs that contribute to community health and wellness. In addition to taking courses that cover research methods and advanced public health theory and practice, you’ll also learn about leadership, management, and grant writing. Areas of specialization include (but are not limited to): community-based participatory research, health equity, program design and evaluation, American Indian and Alaska Native health, mHealth strategies, and mental health. Faculty in our department study everything from adverse childhood experiences to nutrition to school-based interventions, which means you can find the faculty mentor who's right for you.

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Quick facts, careers, and skills

When you leave this program, you’ll have the skills you need to develop sound health promotion policy and contribute to research that links social and behavioral factors to health.

Quick facts

Program location: CU Anschutz
Credit hours: 55
Est. time to complete: 3-6 years

Sample careers

Program director
Health program consultant
Analyst
& more

Skills you'll learn

Management
Research methods
Proposal writing
& more

Curriculum


Upon entering the DrPH program, students will have three years to pass the written qualifying exam and should complete the dissertation and public defense of the dissertation within seven years of entering the program.

Each student, in consultation with their faculty advisor, will develop a proposed course of study. The course of study must specify both a major focus area, selective courses to be taken, and proposed timeline for courses, practicum, comprehensive exams, and dissertation. 

Course requirement

Course ID

Credits

DrPH Seminar

PUBH 6842

4*

*1 credit hour semesters, first four semesters of tenure

Course requirement
 Course ID
 Credits
Latent Variable MethodsCBHS 70103
Doctoral Applied Quantitative Analysis for Community Health ScienceCBHS 76373
Advanced Qualitative Research MethodsCBHS 76383
CBH Advanced SeminarCBHS 76703
  12

 

Course requirement Course ID
Credits
DrPH Seminar in LeadershipCBHS 70203

 

Course requirementCourse IDCredits
Advanced Public Health Strategic Planning and ManagementHSMP 76033

 

Course requirementCourse IDCredits
Developing a Research GrantEPID 79123

 

Course requirement

Course ID

Credits

Advanced Communication Skills for Public Health Impact

EHOH 7405

3

Course requirement
Course ID
Credits
Selectives - at least 6 credits must be taken at the doctoral level. 12

 

 

Course requirement Course ID
Credits
Directed Reading
CBHS 70302

 

 

Course requirement Course ID
Credits
DrPH PracticumPUBH 68504

 

 

Course requirement Course ID
Credits
Dissertation CBHS 89919


Total credits: 55

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Competencies


Identifier
Competencies
Course Where Competency is Addressed/Assessed
​DrPH 1​

Explain qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods and policy analysis research and evaluation methods to address health issues at multiple (individual, group, organization, community and population) levels.


CBHS 7670

EHOH 7631

EPID 7632

DrPH 2
Design a qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, policy analysis or evaluation project to address a public health issue.EPID 7912
DrPH 3Explain the use of limitations of surveillance systems and national surveys in assessing, monitoring and evaluating policies and programs and to address a population's health.PUBH 6842 #1
DrPH 4Propose strategies for health improvement and elimination of health inequities by organizing stakeholders, including researchers, practitioners, community leaders and other partners.HSMP 7603
DrPH 5Communicate public health science to diverse stakeholders, including individuals at all levels of health literacy, for purposes of influencing behavior and policies.EHOH 7405
DrPH 6Integrate knowledge, approaches, methods, values and potential contributions from multiple professions, sectors and systems in addressing public health problems.PUBH 6842 #1
DrPH 7​Create a strategic plan.HSMP 7603
DrPH 8​Facilitate shared decision making through negotiation and consensus-building methods.CBHS 7020
DrPH 9​​Create organizational change strategies.CBHS 7020
DrPH 1​0Propose strategies to promote inclusion and equity within public health programs, policies and systems.PUBH 6842 #3
DrPH 1​1Assess one's own strengths and weaknesses in leadership capacities, including cultural proficiency.CBHS 7020
DrPH 1​2Propose human, fiscal and other resources to achieve a strategic goal.HSMP 7603
DrPH 1​3Cultivate new resources and revenue streams to achieve a strategic goal.HSMP 7603
DrPH 1​4Design a system-level intervention to address a public health issue.

CBHS 7670

EHOH 7403

EPID 7631

EPID 7632

DrPH 1​5​Integrate knowledge of cultural values and practices in the design of public health policies and programs.PUBH 6842 #2
DrPH 1​6​Integrate scientific information, legal and regulatory approaches, ethical frameworks and varied stakeholder interests in policy development and analysis.PUBH 6842 #2
DrPH 1​7Propose interprofessional and/or intersectoral team approaches to improving public health.PUBH 6842 #4
DrPH 1​8​Assess an audience's knowledge and learning needs.PUBH 6842 #4
DrPH 1​9Deliver training or educational experiences that promote learning in academic, organizational or community settings.PUBH 6842 #4
DrPH 20Use best practice modalities in pedagogical practices.PUBH 6842 #4

 

IdentifierCompetenciesCourse Where Competency is Addressed/Assessed
DrPH-CBHS 1Synthesize health behavior theories, models, frameworks and evidence-based integrative strategies at multiple levels of socio-ecological model to develop theory-informed conceptual models.CBHS 7670
DrPH-CBHS 2Apply multivariable statistical techniques to answer public health research or practice questions.CBHS 7637
DrPH-CBHS 3Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of measurement and apply statistical techniques to analyze latent variables.CBHS 7010
DrPH-CBHS 4Employ qualitative methods to collect and analyze qualitative data, and critically appraise the role of qualitative research to inform public health issues.CBHS 7638
DrPH-CBHS 5Integrate principles of design for dissemination into the development of a public health intervention.CBHS 7670

 

Colorado School of Public Health

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13001 East 17th Place

3rd Floor

Mail Stop B119

Aurora, CO 80045


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