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DrPH in Occupational & Environmental Health

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.

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Quick facts, careers, and skills

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.

Quick facts

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

Sample careers

Environmental epidemiologist
Safety and health manager
Built environment specialist
& more

Skills you'll gain

Analytical
Translating research to practice
Creative problem solving
& 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 and minor area of study, courses to be taken, and proposed timeline for courses, practicum, preliminary and comprehensive exams, and dissertation. 

Students take the 1-credit DrPH seminar for their first four semesters. This seminar introduces students to cross-cutting public health concepts and builds leadership skills. 

Course requirement

Course ID

Credits

DrPH Seminar

PUBH 6842

4 (1 credit hour per semester for first four semesters)

 

Course requirement
Course ID
Credits
Advanced Methods in Environmental & Occupational HealthEHOH 76312
Advanced Field Investigations in Environmental & Occupational HealthEHOH 76321
GIS for Public Health Research & PracticeEHOH 66213
Biostatistical MethodsBIOS 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 requirementCourse IDCredits
Choose one from the following two options:
  
Management of Non-Profit Organizations + 1 credit HSMP Independent StudyHSMP 6633 + HSMP 68402+1
OR  
Management, Budgeting, Public Health AdministrationHSMP 66343

 

Course requirementCourse IDCredits
Developing a Research GrantEPID 79123

 

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

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 ReadingEHOH 7030 2

 

Course requirement  Course ID
 Credits
PracticumPUBH 6850 4

 

Students register for dissertation credits as they are writing their dissertation.

Course requirement Course ID
Credits
Dissertation EHOH 8991 9

Total credits: 55 

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Competencies


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 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.
DrPH 4Propose strategies for health improvement and elimination of health inequities by organizing stakeholders, including researchers, practitioners, community leaders and other partners.
DrPH 5Communicate public health science to diverse stakeholders, including individuals at all levels of health literacy, for purposes of influencing behavior and policies.
DrPH 6Integrate 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 1​0Propose strategies to promote inclusion and equity within public health programs, policies and systems.
DrPH 1​1Assess one's own strengths and weaknesses in leadership capacities, including cultural proficiency.
DrPH 1​2Propose human, fiscal and other resources to achieve a strategic goal.
DrPH 1​3Cultivate new resources and revenue streams to achieve a strategic goal.
DrPH 1​4Design a system-level intervention to address a public health issue.
DrPH 1​5​Integrate knowledge of cultural values and practices in the design of public health policies and programs.
DrPH 1​6​Integrate scientific information, legal and regulatory approaches, ethical frameworks and varied stakeholder interests in policy development and analysis.
DrPH 1​7Propose interprofessional and/or intersectoral team approaches to improving public health.
DrPH 1​8​Assess an audience's knowledge and learning needs.
DrPH 1​9Deliver training or educational experiences that promote learning in academic, organizational or community settings.
DrPH 20Use best practice modalities in pedagogical practices.

 

IdentifierCompetencies
DrPH-EHOH 1Critically evaluate toxicological and epidemiological data, and explain its role in informing risk-based decision making.
DrPH-EHOH 2Describe 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 3Evaluate contemporary environmental and occupational health issues using geographic, epidemiologic, or other data collection methods as appropriate.
DrPH-EHOH 4Create a data collection and management plan for an environmental or occupational health research study.
DrPH-EHOH 5Identify and critically evaluate secondary data sources appropriate for answering applied research and program evaluation questions in environmental and occupational health.
DrPH-EHOH 6Develop grant proposals to conduct research to test well-conceived hypotheses and/or evaluation studies to assess impact.

 

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Aurora, CO 80045


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