DrPH Program of Study

HSC 705

HSC 780

Foundations in Public Health Leadership 

Selected Topics in Advanced Public Health

3 units

2-3 units 

HSC 795 

HSC 786 

Directed Individual Study

Doctoral Teaching Practicum

1-3 units

1-3 units

c. Concentration 

1. Concentration in Public Health Informatics and Technology (9 units)

NRSG 708

PPH 785B

Informatics in Healthcare ( Make into own box ) 

Doctoral Practicum in Public Health Informatics & Technology

  3 units

 3-6 units 

Course Number : HSC 700 , Units : 3

Course Title : Current Issues in Applied Epidemiology

Catalog Description : Conceptual foundations and application strategies of essential issues in epidemiologic methodology. Including strengths, limitations and potential alternatives for a given epidemiological approach. Letter Grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.)

Course Number : HSC 703, Units : 3

Course Description : Advanced Public Health Statistics

Catalog Description : Statistical methods for public health research and program evaluation based on study design. Includes data processing, multivariate statistical procedures, and survival analysis using statistical software. Emphasis on interpretation and reporting of analytic results according to proper statistical convention...Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 2 hours C-4: Activity 2 hours C-7).

Course Number: HSC 708, Units: 3

Course Title:  Ethics for Public Health Leaders 

Catalog Description Examines law, ethics, and human rights as determinates for the range of policy, practice, and research in public health. Analysis and description of the policy processes that stresses both ethical and political factors shaping the emergence of problems and policies. Use of case studies at the local, national and global level. Letter Grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.) 

Course Number:  HSC 720, Units: 3

Course Title:  Social Determinants of Global Health

Catalog Description:  This course focuses on the social determinants of health, clinical prevention, population and global health.  Emphasis is placed on epidemiology, public health, health promotion, evidence based recommendations, environmental and occupational health, infectious diseases, emergency and disaster preparedness, cultural diversity, and social justice.  (Letter grade only A-F)

Course Number:  HSC 724, Units: 3

Course Title: Program Development to Implementation of Health Promotion

Catalog Description:   Development of tailored, theory- and evidence-based health promotion intervention in the area of concentration, including a implementation plan. Evaluation of health promotion intervention targeting the various levels of the ecological model (individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, policy and systems levels) for effectiveness and cultural values. Letter Grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.)

Course Number:  HSC 728, Units: 3

Course Title: Advanced Environmental Health & Social Justice

Catalog Description: This course is designed to provide Doctor of Public Health students with a broad overview of the effects of both harmful and salutogenic environmental factors on human health, and to foster the development of the technical, organizational, and communication skills necessary to effectively engage communities, develop intersectoral partnerships, and lead interdisciplinary teams in assessing and controlling environmental health risks. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to apply an “equity lens” to understanding and addressing the distribution of environmental health risks affecting health disparities, environmental justice, and impacts on vulnerable and marginalized populations. The course will consist of a series of lectures and applied problem-solving, drawing on concepts and strategies derived from ecology, epidemiology, toxicology, and environmental management and sociology. Letter Grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.)

Course Number:  HSC 740, Units: 3

Course Title:  Strategic Planning in Global Health

Catalog Description:  This course provides an in-depth exploration of strategic planning within the global health context, emphasizing the development, implementation, and evaluation of global health initiatives. Students will engage in analytical frameworks and methodologies for designing health strategies that address complex global health challenges. Key topics include health systems strengthening, resource allocation, program sustainability, stakeholder engagement, and policy development. The course integrates real-world case studies and scenario planning to prepare students for leadership roles in global health. (Letter grade only A-F)

Course Number:  HSC 750, Units: 3

Course Title: Health Policy Analysis Methods

Catalog Description: Advanced skill development in researchable policy questions using data analysis to predict possible outcomes of health policy and frame decision making. Topics include: Advocacy, relationship between health services research, health policy research, health policy analysis, and health program management; research design selection and execution; ethical dilemmas in conflicting roles; and presentation of analysis and recommendations to successfully influence decisions. Letter grade only (A-F).

Course Number:  HSC 770, Units: 3

Course Title:  Advanced Public Health Theoretical Concepts

Catalog Description:  Advanced theoretical and conceptual models of behavior change that apply to public health research, practice, values, and systems approaches.  Applied integration of research (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods) theory and practice Letter grade only (A-F) (lecture 3 hours)

Course Number:  HSC 775, Units: 1

Course Title:  DrPH Professional Development Seminar I

Catalog Description:   Application of the knowledge from previous courses is used to address complex multidimensional public health programs. It is an integrative leadership course, where students will address a complex public health practice issue that will provide the framework for the student’s dissertation. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.)

Course Number: HSC 780 Units: 2-3 

Course Title: Selected Topics in Advanced Public Health   

Catalog Description:   Examination of various issues in Public Health selected for special presentation. Letter grade only (A-F). May be repeated to a maximum of 6 units with different. Topics announced in the Schedule of Classes. (Lecture 3 hrs.)

Course Number:   HSC 785A, Units: 3-6

Course Title:  Doctoral Practicum in Community Public Health Practice

Catalog Description:  Advanced-level practice experience in Public Health, Relevant organizations may include governmental, non-governmental, non-profit, industrial, and for-profit settings. Synthesis of the skills and knowledge gained throughout the degree program. Faculty advisor will help the student to determine the best practicum based on experience and career goals. Student submits proposal for plan of work that is approved by the Faculty advisor and the site Supervisor, demonstrating that the practicum includes substantive advanced public health practice. The site supervisor will submit evaluation of the student’s mastery of selected public health competencies. Students complete a report on the work completed that includes a reflective essay on their personal and professional reactions to the applied practice experience. Forty hours per unit credit Credit/No Credit grading only. May be repeated to a maximum of six units in different semesters. 

Course Number:  HSC 785B, Units: 3-6

Course Title:  Doctoral Practicum Public Health Informatics and Technology

Catalog Description: Advanced-level practice experience in Public Health Informatics and Technology. It is taken in concentration.  Relevant organizations may include governmental, non-governmental, non-profit, industrial, and for-profit settings. Synthesis of the skills and knowledge gained throughout the degree program. Faculty advisor will help the student to determine the best practicum based on experience and career goals. Student submits proposal for plan of work that is approved by the Faculty advisor and the site Supervisor, demonstrating that the practicum includes substantive advanced public health practice. The site supervisor will submit evaluation of the student’s mastery of selected public health competencies. Students complete a report on the work completed that includes a reflective essay on their personal and professional reactions to the applied practice experience.  Forty hours per unit credit Credit/No Credit grading only. May be repeated to a maximum of six units in different semesters.

Course Number:  HSC 785C, Units 3-6

Course Title: Doctoral Practicum in Global Health

Catalog Description:  Advanced-level practice experience in Global Health.  Relevant organizations may include governmental, non-governmental, non-profit, industrial, and for-profit settings. Synthesis of the skills and knowledge gained throughout the degree program. Faculty advisor will help the student to determine the best practicum based on experience and career goals. Student submits proposal for plan of work that is approved by the Faculty advisor and the site Supervisor, demonstrating that the practicum includes substantive advanced public health practice. The site supervisor will submit evaluation of the student’s mastery of selected public health competencies. Students complete a report on the work completed that includes a reflective essay on their personal and professional reactions to the applied practice experience.  Forty hours per unit credit Credit/No Credit grading only. May be repeated to a maximum of six units in different semesters., 

Course Number: HSC 785D, Units: 3-6

Course Title:  Doctoral practicum in Health Policy and Management

Catalog Description:  Advanced-level practice experience in Health Policy and Management.  Relevant organizations may include governmental, non-governmental, non-profit, industrial, and for-profit settings. Synthesis of the skills and knowledge gained throughout the degree program. Faculty advisor will help the student to determine the best practicum based on experience and career goals. Student submits proposal for plan of work that is approved by the Faculty advisor and the site Supervisor, demonstrating that the practicum includes substantive advanced public health practice. The site supervisor will submit evaluation of the student’s mastery of selected public health competencies. Students complete a report on the work completed that includes a reflective essay on their personal and professional reactions to the applied practice experience.  Forty hours per unit credit Credit/No Credit grading only. May be repeated to a maximum of six units in different semesters., 

Course  Number:   HSC 786, Units: 1-3

Course Title:  Doctoral Teaching Practicum

Catalog  Description:The focus of this course is to provide best practices in teaching diverse students enrolled in Public Health and /or Health Science majors or related discipline under the supervision of an expert preceptor.   The topics covered in this course are the application of principles of learning, instruction, curriculum development, specific microteaching strategies to actual teaching of college students, or at the global level for larger communities. 90 clock teaching practicum = 3 units. (Letter grade only (A-F)

Course Number:  HSC 790 , Units: 3

Course Title: Advanced Public Health Informatics and Technology

Catalog Description: In this course students will acquire geospatial skills, applied to health disparities/racial justice. The primary goal of this course is gaining skills to approach public health problems from an equity perspective.  As the healthcare ecosystem evolves with massively expanding volumes of data, provider organizations are facing new challenges on how to make sense of the data available. The key course learning objective is understanding place in display and analysis of health data at local/national/global scales. 

Course Number:  HSC 795, Units: 1-3

Course Title: Directed Individual Study 

Catalog Description: Individual research or intensive study under the guidance of a faculty member. Production of a culminating project, such as a research proposal or a draft manuscript for publication, required. Letter grade only (A-F). May be repeated to a maximum of 3 units in different semesters.

Course Number: HSC 796, Units: 3

Course Title: Public Health Research and Evaluation 

Catalog Description:  Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods for evaluating public health research, interventions and services. Topics include research design, advanced sampling techniques and evaluation methods relevant to public health programming and evaluation. Students must complete Collaborative IRB Training Initiative (CITI) course in the Protection of Human Research Subjects to receive a grade. Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.)

Course Number:  HSC 797, Units: 1

Course Title:  Doctoral Pre-Dissertation Study 

Catalog Description:  Individual research and revisions for Chapters One and Two of the dissertation under the guidance of the dissertation Chair. Credit/No Credit grading only. May be repeated to a maximum of three units in different semesters. 

Prerequisites: Successful completion of the Qualifying Paper/Exam.  Department Consent Required.

Course Number:  HSC 798A, Units: 1

Course Title: Doctoral Dissertation 

Catalog Description:  Student research and writing of the practice oriented DrPH Dissertation, under the guidance of the Dissertation Chair. The focus of this course is to develop the first three sections of the doctoral dissertation and take the qualifying examination y defending the proposal in front of the dissertation Committee. (Credit/No Credit grading only )

Pre-Requisites: Advanced Candidacy status, completion of CITI training and Department consent required.

Course Number:  HSC 798 B, Units: 3

Course Title: Doctoral Dissertation 

Catalog Description:  Student research and writing of the practice oriented DrPH Dissertation, under the guidance of the Dissertation Chair. The focus of this course is to start collecting data and do data analysis for the doctoral dissertation research. (Credit/No Credit grading only)

Pre-Requisites: Advanced Candidacy status, completion of CITI training and Department consent required.

Course Number:  HSC 798 C, Units: 3

Course Title: Doctoral Dissertation 

Catalog Description:  Student research and writing of the practice oriented DrPH Dissertation, under the guidance of the Dissertation Chair. The focus of this course is on completing the dissertation by writing the results and discussion sections and orally defending the entire dissertation in front of the Dissertation Committee. (Letter Grade A-F). 

Pre-Requisites: Advanced Candidacy status, completion of CITI training and Department consent required.

Course Number: NRSG 708, Units: 3

Course Title:  Informatics in Health Care

Catalog Description: This course enables DNP student to use standards and principles for selecting and evaluating information systems/technology to implement practice changes, quality and process improvement initiatives, support practice and administrative data-driven decision-making and resolving of ethical, regulatory, and legal issues. Letter grade only (A-F). Not repeatable for credit.

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Course Number: NRSG 704, Units: 3

Course Title:  Healthcare Policy and Economic 

Catalog Description: Inter-relatedness of health care economics, health care policy, and interprofessional dimensions of health care delivery to patients, communities, and globally analyzed. Principles of organizational theory, financing, ethics, advocacy, health care disparities are applied to the advanced practice role. (Letter Grade only A-F)

Course Number : HSC 705

Course Description: Foundations in Public Health Leadership (Elective)

Catalog Description: Students will gain an understanding and application of public health leadership practice and theory for the broader concepts of leading people and health organizations across multiple and interconnected disciplines. Students will bridge theory and the abstract concepts of leadership with the practical or concrete operational behaviors and action of leaders. (Letter grade only A-F)