Student Learning Outcomes
- Mobilizing community partnerships and action to identify and solve health problems.
- Developing policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts.
- Enforcing policies and regulations that protect health and ensure safety.
- Linking people to needed resources and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable.
- Building capacity of communities to achieve health equity through community development and policy.
In the Public Health program, students will learn to:
- Locate, use, evaluate, and synthesize public health information from credible resources and research literature
- Communicate public health information, in both oral and written form and through a variety of media to diverse audiences.
- Identify and address public health issues using a determinants of health framework for assessment, program planning, implementation and/or evaluation of public health education, promotion, policies and/or systems.
- Assess and analyze the varied ways that social and cultural systems conceptualize, support or impact personal and public health, e.g. wealth/poverty, disasters/ chaos, race/ ethnicity, environmental problems.
- Apply research methods (quantitative and qualitative) for identifying community assets and/or problems, surveying health environments or examining the impact of planned interventions across social-ecological levels for public health.