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Department of Community and Environmental Health PLOs

Health Science Studies BS

  1. Assess the essential components of and the administrative, financing, compliance, policy, and ethical frameworks governing high quality, prevention-focused health care delivery.
  2. Evaluate the various factors that converge to impact the multiple aspects of human health, including physical, mental, and social well-being.
  3. Critique the current issues impacting the effectiveness and efficiency of the health care system in improving patient and population outcomes.
  4. Distinguish the basic concepts, methods, and tools of health data collection, interpretation, and presentation for informed decision making.
  5. Apply research, epidemiologic, and statistical methods used in the analysis of evidence-based information.
  6. Develop appropriate communication and collaboration skills necessary to succeed in academic and professional settings, including written and oral communication, working in teams, and meaningfully acting upon feedback to improve work.

Public Health BA-Online

  1. Connect the history, philosophy, and core concepts of public health to current issues.
  2. Explain the underlying concepts of human health and disease, including health promotion and disease prevention strategies that enhance human health.
  3. Discuss how socio-economic, behavioral, biological, environmental and other factors impact human health and contribute to health disparities.
  4. Compare and contrast behavioral, social, environmental, economic and cultural factors impacting health worldwide.
  5. Explain the organization, management, financing, and delivery of health services and public health systems.
  6. Apply research, epidemiologic, and statistical methods for evidence-based decision-making.
  7. Apply ethical and legal principles in contemporary public health.
  8. Discuss the essential components of an effective public health program including assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
  9. Use effective communication and teamwork strategies to inform and engage colleagues, policy makers, and community members to address pertinent public health issues.

Public Health BS

  1. Connect the history, philosophy, and core concepts of public health to current issues.
  2. Explain the underlying concepts of human health and disease, including health promotion and disease prevention strategies that enhance human health.
  3. Discuss how socio-economic, behavioral, biological, environmental and other factors impact human health and contribute to health disparities.
  4. Compare and contrast behavioral, social, environmental, economic and cultural factors impacting health worldwide.
  5. Explain the organization, management, financing, and delivery of health services and public health systems.
  6. Apply research, epidemiologic, and statistical methods for evidence-based decision-making.
  7. Apply ethical and legal principles in contemporary public health.
  8. Discuss the essential components of an effective public health program including assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
  9. Use effective communication and teamwork strategies to inform and engage colleagues, policy makers, and community members to address pertinent public health issues.

Master of Public Health

1. Evidence-Based Approaches to Public Health

1.a  Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice.

1.b  Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context.

1.c  Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming and software, as appropriate.

1.d  Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy or practice.

1.e  Compare the organization, structure and function of health care, public health and regulatory systems across national and international settings.

1.f  Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community and societal levels.

2.  Planning and Management to Promote Health

2.a  Assess population needs, assets and capacities that affect communities’ health.

2.b  Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design or implementation of public health policies or programs

2.c  Design a population-based policy, program, project or intervention.

2.d  Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management.

2.e  Select methods to evaluate public health programs.

3.  Public Policy in Health

3.a  Discuss multiple dimensions of the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence.

3.b  Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes.

3.c  Advocate for political, social or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations.

3.d  Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity.

4. Leadership

4.a  Apply principles of leadership, governance and management, which include creating a vision, empowering others, fostering collaboration and guiding decision making.

4.b  Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges.

5. Communication

5.a  Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors.

5.b  Communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation.

5.c  Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content.

6. Interprofessional Practice

6.a  Perform effectively on interprofessional teams.

7. Systems Thinking

7.a  Apply systems thinking tools to a public health issue.

Public and Population Health Leadership PhD

  1. Review and synthesize pertinent literature and formulate focused research questions that address identified knowledge gaps
  2. Develop and implement a data analysis plans that include multi-level interventions using a multidisciplinary, data informed, systems-approach to address a public health problem
  3. Evaluate an organization’s readiness to address a public health problem, including recommendations for enhancing operational readiness and sustaining organizational readiness over time
  4. Organize and lead teams of public health researchers and other professionals throughout the public health research process, including the identification public health problems, the solution formulation, and the research needed to address public health problems
  5. Communicate research findings and recommendations for action to the scientific community and the community-at-large through peer-reviewed publications and presentations, and other public health community audiences