Primary Health Care & Health Disparities

Curriculum and Competencies

Program length: 58 Credits


This program is completed entirely online. Students are expected to use computer technologies such as Internet, electronic mail, document sharing, and data management as learning modalities within the masters program as well as within their practice after graduation.

 


Required OMPH Core Courses (16 Credits)

Core Course Title Credits Course Number
Epidemiology Survey 3 CPH 533
 Introduction to Biostatistics 3 CPH 530
Health Systems Organization 3 CPH 540
Principles of Health Behavior 3 CPH 537
Concepts of Environmental and Occupational Health 3 CPH 539

Track Requirements (19 Credits)

Required Track Course Title
 Credits Course Number
 Epidemiology of Disease 4
  CPH 527
The Social Context of Public Health Policy
 3
 CPH 531
Epidemiology of Aging
 3
 CPH 526
PHC & HD: Social Determinants of Health 3 CPH 521
PHC & HD: Communications and Informatics 3
 CPH 522
PHC & HD:  Global Perspectives & Program Development 3 CPH 523
Primary Health Care & Health Disparities Focus Courses (18 Credits)*
Track Courses
 Credits Course Number
Current Issues in Public Health 3
 CPH 507A
Research Methods and Evidence Based Practice 4
 CPH 510
Professionalism, Ethics and Stystems Thinkin in Public Health 4 CPH 535
Community Based Participatory Research 3
 CPH 536
Public Health Program Evaluation
3
 CPH 538
Foundations in Organizational Leadership and Management
 3
 CPH 528

 *other courses may be substituted based on student interest and focus

Internship (6 Credits)
All students are requied to complete the Graduate Internship in Public Health: CPH 509.

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