Environmental and Occupational Health, PhD, Public Health Practice (PHP)

The public health practice PhD in environmental and occupational health provides a broad theoretical and practical education for individuals who desire positions in academic, industrial, or government laboratories in the multifaceted discipline of environmental health sciences. The program provides a degree that emphasizes a practice-oriented, interdisciplinary approach to research that encompasses in its coursework the competencies of the five core areas of Public Health: environmental health, biostatistics, epidemiology, health policy and management, and behavioral and community health aspects of Public Health. It further includes courses to develop proficiencies in one of several high-level career directions.