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Public Health Bachelor's Degree Foundational Competencies

1. Locate public health information.
2. Evaluate public health information.
3. Communicate public health information orally.
4. Communicate public health information in writing.
5. Communicate public health information to a non-specialist audience through a medium other than standard narrative writing: e.g., social media posts, videos, PSAs, brochures, blogs, podcasts, etc.
6. Synthesize public health information: i.e., compile information from multiple sources and distill it into cohesive conclusions.

Public Health Bachelor’s Degree Foundational Domains

1. History of public health as a discipline and practice.
2. Social justice and health equity as foundational public health principles.
3. Determinants of health: e.g., environmental, socioeconomic, behavioral factors.
4. Concepts and application of public health ethics.
5. Biological science: 2 e.g., introductory biology, introductory anatomy and physiology, or basic public health biology.
6. Scientific foundations of chronic and infectious disease: e.g., etiology of disease, environmental effects and interactions; coverage must extend beyond the level that would be addressed in a general biology or anatomy and physiology course.
7. Fundamental characteristics of the U.S. health care and public health systems 3 in comparison with other nations.
8. Global health concepts: e.g., differing disease burdens, global health agencies, intersections with human rights, resource-specific challenges.
9. Public health statistical literacy: e.g., preparing descriptive statistics, reading and interpreting public health statistical data and evidence (e.g., odds ratio, relative risk), using relevant software (e.g., Excel), communicating and collaborating with other professionals on data.
10. Public health data collection and surveillance: e.g., common methods, challenges in real world data collection, identifying data quality and limitations (e.g., bias).
11. Planning, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based interventions: e.g., needs or community assessment; program delivery; process, formative, and summative evaluation.
12. Strategies to build partnerships and relationships to improve health: e.g., with communities, governmental and non-governmental agencies, organizations, etc.
13. Application of critical thinking skills to define and address problems in public health practice: e.g., considering perspectives; problem solving to address implementation challenges; identifying misinformation.
14. Legislative and governmental processes relevant to public health policy and advocacy.
15. Policy analysis: e.g., health in all policies, concepts of feasibility and impact.

Master’s Foundational Competencies

1. Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice.
2. Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context.
3. Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming and software as appropriate.
4. Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy or practice.
5. Compare the organization, structure and function of health care, public health and regulatory systems across national and international settings.
6. Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community and societal levels.
7. Assess population needs, assets and capacities that affect communities' health.
8. Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design or implementation of public health policies or programs.
9. Design a population-based policy, program, project or intervention.
10. Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management.
11. Select methods to evaluate public health programs.
12. Discuss multiple dimensions of the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence.
13. Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes.
14. Advocate for political, social and economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations.
15. Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity.
16. Apply principles of leadership, governance and management, which include creating a vision, empowering others, fostering collaboration and guiding decision making.
17. Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges.
18. Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors.
19. Communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation.
20. Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content.
21. Perform effectively on interprofessional teams.
22. Apply systems thinking tools to a public health issue.

Master’s Generalist Concentration-Specific Competencies

1. Gather, integrate and analyze descriptive health data from rural or frontier settings.
2. Identify the common demographic characteristics of rural or frontier areas and their implications for provision of public health services.
3. Explain the challenges associated with provision of environmental health services in the context of rural or frontier areas.
4. Demonstrate basic understanding and respect for a multiplicity of values, believes, traditions and experiences and feelings of satisfaction or distress stemming from social determinants in rural or frontier settings.
5. Utilize basic statistical skills to reason about problems associated with the populations of low density and widespread geographic dispersion.

Master’s Community Health and Prevention Sciences-Specific Competencies

1. Assess Needs, Resources, and Capacity for Health Education/Promotion.
2. Plan Health Education/Promotion.
3. Implement Health Education/Promotion.
4. Conduct Evaluation and Research Related to Health Education/Promotion.
5. Administer and Manage Health Education/Promotion.
6. Serve as a Health Education/Promotion Resource Person.
7. Communicate, Promote, and Advocate for Health, Health Education/Promotion, and the Profession.

PhD Competencies

1. Convey and apply deep knowledge of public health principles, including conceptual underpinnings, philosophy and history.
2. Understand current issues and debates in public health research, including multi-cultural dimensions and ethical conduct of public health research.
3. Understand and apply a range of study designs, research methods, and approaches to data management and analysis commonly used in public health and in one’s specialized focus area.
4. Design and conduct independent research in a specialized focus area within public health.
5. Critically evaluate scientific literature and research gaps in a specialized focus area within public health.
6. Disseminate effective and substantive public health-related research through presentations and manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

PhD Content Coverage

1. Explain public health history, philosophy and values.
2. Identify the core functions of public health and the 10 Essential Services.
3. Explain the role of quantitative and qualitative methods and sciences in describing and assessing a population’s health.
4. List major causes and trends of morbidity and mortality in the US or other community relevant to the school or program.
5. Discuss the science of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention in population health, including health promotion, screening, etc.
6. Explain the critical importance of evidence in advancing public health knowledge.
7. Explain effects of environmental factors on a population’s health.
8. Explain biological and genetic factors that affect a population’s health.
9. Explain behavioral and psychological factors that affect a population’s health.
10. Explain the social, political and economic determinants of health and how they contribute to population health and health inequities.
11. Explain how globalization affects global burdens of disease.
12. Explain an ecological perspective on the connections among human health, animal health and ecosystem health (e.g., One Health).