Health Equity, M.P.H.

The curriculum will be closely structured to reflect the core of public health, with additional courses that will be geared towards health equities. The curriculum will require students to complete 45 hours and will have both a thesis and a non-thesis option. 
Students will be required to complete 27 hours of required core courses that are listed below:

• PHLT 5010 Environmental Health and Toxicological Issues  
• PHLT 5020 Epidemiologic Methods in Racial and Ethnic Disparities  
• PHLT 5030 Health Equity Principles and Practices  
• PHLT 5040 Applied Biostatistics  
• PHLT 5050 Public Health Policy  
• PHLT 5060 Determinants of Health Equity  
• PHLT 5999 Graduate Practicum and Capstone  

In addition, students will also select 18 hours of Public Health Electives that include:

• PHLT 5500 Current Issues in Health Equities Core Seminar 
• PHLT 5510 Community Based Research 
• PHLT 5520 Health Literacy and Cultural Communication 
• PHLT 5530 Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods 
• PHLT 5700 Advanced Methods for Planning and Implementing and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs/ [Intervention Mapping] 
• PHLT 5710 Computer Applications [SPSS, STATA and GIS] 
• PHLT 5720 Collaborative Leadership 
• PHLT 5731 Independent Study 
• PHLT 5732 Independent Study 
• PHLT 5733 Independent Study 
• PHLT 5740 Political Economy of Social Inequalities and its Consequences for Health and Quality of Life 
• PHLT 5750 Implementation of Research and Practice 
• PHLT 5760 Ethnicity, Race, Class & Gender: A Multicultural Public Health Perspective 
• PHLT 5770 Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Prevention 
• PHLT 5780 Infectious Disease Epidemiology