College of Public Health

Divisions

The College of Public Health offers degree programs under five divisions. Each division represents one of the core areas of public health and offers advanced training leading to master's and doctoral degrees.

The College of Public Health have faculties who are active in teaching, research, and service, and whose accomplishments are making a significant impact on the nations' public health problems and disparities. In addition, they provide expertise and support in the College's goal to advance education, and research.

 

Biostatistics

Biostatistics is one of the fundamental specializations in the science and practice of public health, relating statistical information to concrete health issues -- especially those affecting human populations. The information provided by biostatisticians is central to the design of interventions and the development of public health policy and priorities.

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Environmental Health Sciences

The Division of Environmental Health Sciences provides a cornerstone to public health through multidisciplinary research, training, and practice that is focused on chemical, physical, and biological agents in the environment that influence human health. Its scope is broad, encompassing both the environmental and biological processes and mechanisms underlying human disease and prevention.

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Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the science that quantifies the relationship of exposure to disease development in humans and offers the possibility of altering that risk through intervention. Epidemiologic research has often provided the basis for significant public health decisions, such as those involving use of tobacco, well before individual disease mechanisms were understood.

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Health Behavior and Health Promotion

Stopping the spread of communicable diseases. Catching cancer in its early stages. Preventing teenagers from smoking cigarettes. These are all based on choices and behaviors. Our goal in the Division of Health Behavior and Health Promotion (HBHP) is to enable people to achieve their optimal level of health through healthy decisions and behaviors. In order to accomplish this, we work with individuals, organizations, and communities to develop the knowledge and skills needed for making healthy decisions and enacting healthy behaviors, and to promote the conditions and resources necessary for healthy living.

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Health Services Management and Policy

The mission of the Division of Health Services Management and Policy (HSMP) is to conduct high-quality research, education, and service activities to improve the organization, financing and delivery of health care. Our faculty consists of distinguished scholars, who are national leaders in the areas of health care management, health policy analysis, health services research, quality-of-care measurement and improvement, health finance and health economics. The division is growing rapidly and we are continuing to recruit new faculty to add to the breadth and depth of our expertise in all aspects of health care.

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