Public Health M.S./Ph.D. Learning Outcomes

The specific learning objectives of the concentration in Global Health are:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the major theoretical underpinnings of advances in global health research.
2. Explain the relationship between theory and research methods focused on understanding the association of risk, vulnerability, and outcome in global health.
3. Compare and contrast the health status of different populations with respect to their burden of disease.
4. Formulate research hypotheses in the intersection of risk factors, vulnerable populations, and burden of disease.
5. Compose research proposals and conduct original research resulting in discoveries that contribute to improved understanding of risk factors and variations in disease burden in a population, and strategies to alleviate the burden at the global level.

The specific learning objectives of the concentration in Disease Prevention are:

1. 1. Demonstrate knowledge of the major theoretical underpinnings of strategies for disease prevention.
   2. Explain the relationship between theory and research methods focused on understanding the association of risk, behavior, and vulnerability with respect to disease pathways.
   3. Compare and contrast biological, social, and policy strategies for health promotion and disease prevention.
   4. Formulate research hypotheses in the intersection of health risk factors, health behavior, and health promotion and policies toward disease prevention.
   5. Compose research proposals and conduct original research resulting in discoveries that contribute to improved understanding of the role of behavior and health promotion strategies in mitigating the vulnerability to health risk factors in specific populations, with the goals of applying the knowledge to disease prevention.

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