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Program location: CU AnschutzCredit hours: 55
Est. time to complete: 3-6 years
This program is designed to help you become a public health leader. As a student in this program, you'll learn how to identify, evaluate, and control environmental and occupational stressors. You’ll take courses in field investigations, Geographic Information Systems, biostatistics, leadership and management, and proposal writing. In addition to required coursework, you can focus your electives on an area of specialization such as environmental justice, toxicology, risk assessment, climate and health, and occupational health and safety. This broad range of topics means you can find the area of study and faculty mentor that's right for you.
Students in this program gain a deep understanding of the environmental and occupational health sciences and the skills necessary to hold leadership positions in private, nonprofit, academic, and government organizations.
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Program location: CU AnschutzSample careers
Environmental epidemiologistSkills you'll gain
AnalyticalUpon 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 and minor area of study, courses to be taken, and proposed timeline for courses, practicum, preliminary and comprehensive exams, and dissertation.
Course requirement | Course ID | Credits |
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DrPH Seminar | PUBH 6842 | 4 (1 credit hour per semester for first four semesters) |
Course requirement | Course ID | Credits |
Advanced Methods in Environmental & Occupational Health | EHOH 7631 | 2 |
Advanced Field Investigations in Environmental & Occupational Health | EHOH 7632 | 1 |
GIS for Public Health Research & Practice | EHOH 6621 | 3 |
Biostatistical Methods | BIOS 6611* and BIOS 6612* | 6 |
12 |
*With permission, advanced biostatistical coursework may be substituted.
Course requirement | Course ID | Credits |
DrPH Seminar in Leadership | CBHS 7020 | 3 |
Course requirement | Course ID | Credits |
Choose one from the following two options: | ||
Management of Non-Profit Organizations + 1 credit HSMP Independent Study | HSMP 6633 + HSMP 6840 | 2+1 |
OR | ||
Management, Budgeting, Public Health Administration | HSMP 6634 | 3 |
Course requirement | Course ID | Credits |
Developing a Research Grant | EPID 7912 | 3 |
Students select a minor area study in one of the core areas of public health outside of environmental and occupational health: biostatistics, epidemiology, community and behavioral health, and health systems, management and policy. These courses are required to be taken at the Colorado School of Public Health.
Course requirement | Course ID | Credits |
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Minor area | 6 |
Examples of areas of specialization include: Total Worker Health®, climate and health, environmental justice, exposure assessment, environmental epidemiology, risk assessment, and toxicology. Courses must be selected in consultation with the student’s advisor and may be taken at any ColoradoSPH campus.
Course requirement | Course ID | Credits |
Selectives | 9 |
Course requirement | Course ID | Credits |
Directed Reading | EHOH 7030 | 2 |
Course requirement | Course ID | Credits |
Practicum | PUBH 6850 | 4 |
Students register for dissertation credits as they are writing their dissertation.
Course requirement | Course ID | Credits |
Dissertation | EHOH 8991 | 9 |
Identifier | Competencies |
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. |
DrPH 2 | Design a qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, policy analysis or evaluation project to address a public health issue. |
DrPH 3 | Explain 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. |
DrPH 4 | Propose strategies for health improvement and elimination of health inequities by organizing stakeholders, including researchers, practitioners, community leaders and other partners. |
DrPH 5 | Communicate public health science to diverse stakeholders, including individuals at all levels of health literacy, for purposes of influencing behavior and policies. |
DrPH 6 | Integrate knowledge, approaches, methods, values and potential contributions from multiple professions, sectors and systems in addressing public health problems. |
DrPH 7 | Create a strategic plan. |
DrPH 8 | Facilitate shared decision making through negotiation and consensus-building methods. |
DrPH 9 | Create organizational change strategies. |
DrPH 10 | Propose strategies to promote inclusion and equity within public health programs, policies and systems. |
DrPH 11 | Assess one's own strengths and weaknesses in leadership capacities, including cultural proficiency. |
DrPH 12 | Propose human, fiscal and other resources to achieve a strategic goal. |
DrPH 13 | Cultivate new resources and revenue streams to achieve a strategic goal. |
DrPH 14 | Design a system-level intervention to address a public health issue. |
DrPH 15 | Integrate knowledge of cultural values and practices in the design of public health policies and programs. |
DrPH 16 | Integrate scientific information, legal and regulatory approaches, ethical frameworks and varied stakeholder interests in policy development and analysis. |
DrPH 17 | Propose interprofessional and/or intersectoral team approaches to improving public health. |
DrPH 18 | Assess an audience's knowledge and learning needs. |
DrPH 19 | Deliver training or educational experiences that promote learning in academic, organizational or community settings. |
DrPH 20 | Use best practice modalities in pedagogical practices. |
Identifier | Competencies |
DrPH-EHOH 1 | Critically evaluate toxicological and epidemiological data, and explain its role in informing risk-based decision making. |
DrPH-EHOH 2 | Describe local, regional and/or global impact of an environmental hazard on human and ecological health, and design an appropriate study to evaluate risks associated with this hazard. |
DrPH-EHOH 3 | Evaluate contemporary environmental and occupational health issues using geographic, epidemiologic, or other data collection methods as appropriate. |
DrPH-EHOH 4 | Create a data collection and management plan for an environmental or occupational health research study. |
DrPH-EHOH 5 | Identify and critically evaluate secondary data sources appropriate for answering applied research and program evaluation questions in environmental and occupational health. |
DrPH-EHOH 6 | Develop grant proposals to conduct research to test well-conceived hypotheses and/or evaluation studies to assess impact. |
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