Health Behavior Science and Promotion (PhD)

Program Educational Goals:

• Students will demonstrate an understanding of the distribution of key health conditions and behaviors and how they may vary based on demographic and geographic factors.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of the complex interplay between multi-level determinants of health and disease.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of the theories of health behavior change and their application.
• Students will be profocient in the design, implementation, interpretation and dissemination of pragmatic and rigorous program evaluation strategies
• Students will demonstrate written proficiency of the literature in a health behavior science and promotion-related content area.
• Students will demonstrate oral proficiency of the literature in a health behavior science and promotion-related content area.
• The student will demonstrate the ability to: (1) generate and code summary variables; (2) code and run appropriate descriptive, bivariate, and multivariable models; (3) interpret output for descriptive, bivariate, and multivariable models.
• Students will demonstrate the ability to identify and answer a novel research question.
• Students will demonstrate the ability to communicate audience-appropriate content in writing.
• Students will demonstrate the ability to verbally present scientific results in a scholarly setting.