Students work closely with faculty members and community partners to design and implement research studies designed to facilitate the resolution of public health outcomes that are important to the community and the field.

Attributes

Specific attributes of the program include:

• An emphasis on preparing doctoral students for careers in academia, where they will have the capability to train new generations of professionals and conduct original research;
• An emphasis on understanding, through research, the behaviors and contextual factors that contribute to healthy populations, including; strategies to reduce health disparities, changes in health policies, and innovative individual and community-level interventions.
• The use of a socio-ecological perspective for understanding the health of populations and broad determinants of health;
• A commitment by faculty to work in partnership with professionals, agencies, and community members to address the priorities emerging out of public health practice and the experiences of communities.

This approach to research and teaching/learning in this doctoral program should accelerate the translation of new knowledge into practice in other ways as well. For example, findings generated by research teams (students, faculty, community partners) will have immediate implications for improving the undergraduate and master’s curricula that prepare practitioners.

Contact Information

To request program information, complete this form. Information about admissions requirements, the curriculum, and current students can be found at the links on the left. For questions not addressed at these links, please contact:

• Jeff Milroy, DrPH, Director of Graduate Studies 420-H Coleman Building
• Email: jjmilroy@uncg.edu