DrPH in Occupational & Environmental Health

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 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
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 1​0	Propose strategies to promote inclusion and equity within public health programs, policies and systems.
DrPH 1​1	Assess one's own strengths and weaknesses in leadership capacities, including cultural proficiency.
DrPH 1​2	Propose human, fiscal and other resources to achieve a strategic goal.
DrPH 1​3	Cultivate new resources and revenue streams to achieve a strategic goal.
DrPH 1​4	Design 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​7	Propose interprofessional and/or intersectoral team approaches to improving public health.
DrPH 1​8	​Assess an audience's knowledge and learning needs.
DrPH 1​9	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.