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Doctor of Public
Health in Public Health Leadership The
Doctor of Public Health in Public Health Leadership
provides extensive training in the public health
sciences, public health practice, and leadership skills
necessary to respond to the rapidly shifting, sometimes
unanticipated challenges of the public health and health
care systems. The focus of the DrPH program is in
developing public health leaders who can integrate
public health science into public health practice, apply
models and theories in public health to chronic and
emerging issues in practice, and demonstrate leadership
in working with public health teams. Further information
about the DrPH program may be found in the COPH catalog
and on the COPH website at
www.uams.edu/coph/applicants.
Program
Requirements
Students in the DrPH in
Public Health Leadership program are mid to upper-level
practitioners in public health who desire more extensive
training in the public health sciences, public health
practice, and leadership skills necessary to respond to
the rapidly shifting, sometimes unanticipated challenges
of the public health and health care systems. The focus
of the DrPH program is in developing public health
leaders who can integrate public health science into
public health practice, apply models and theories in
public health to chronic and emerging issues in
practice, and demonstrate leadership in working with
public health teams.
Upon completing the
DrPH program in Public Health Leadership, students will
be proficient in the following areas.
- Demonstrate a
commitment to community-based public health
principles, including the processes involved in
engaging community partners in assessing needs,
planning and implementing programs, and evaluating
those programs.
- Anticipate and
respond to the public health related needs of a
community, population, or other stakeholder group by
utilizing sound epidemiologic and statistical
approaches to identifying, collecting, validating,
and analyzing relevant data regarding health status,
health risks and behaviors, environmental factors,
health resources and policies that affect the
community.
- Formulate and
effectively communicate community health priorities
based upon community data and established theories
or models of health.
Identify appropriate funding
resources for public health programs, and describe
approaches to successful grantsmanship.
- Serve as a mentor
and leader to the public health workforce in
developing, implementing, and evaluating public
health programs and applying current public health
science to practice.
- Demonstrate a
commitment to ensuring cultural sensitivity and
competence within oneself, the public health
workforce, and community programs.
- Evaluate political
and ethical aspects of public health practice, and
contribute as a leader to political and ethical
processes that support quality public health
principles.
- Understand
mechanisms to mobilize the broad public health
community in response to unanticipated emerging
public health disasters or crises.
- Grasp of
administrative skills needed to manage healthcare
organization and agencies in broadly defined public
health sector and located in diverse communities.
- Apply systems
level thinking to problems and issues in communities
and organizations.
The DrPH degree program
is designed to address the considerable need for the
development of the public health leadership
infrastructure in Arkansas. The curriculum for the DrPH
includes coursework in public health sciences and public
health practice as well as in leadership skill
development. The DrPH program requires a minimum of
sixty-one (61) semester credit hours and is offered on a
part-time basis. The overall curriculum model includes:
- Public Health
Sciences Core Courses 15 semester credit hours
- Public Health
Practice Courses 15 semester credit hours
- Leadership Courses
15 semester credit hours
- Doctoral
Practicum/Field Experience 6 semester credit hours
- Capstone Seminar 4
semester credit hours
- Capstone Project
6-12 semester credit hours
From initial
enrollment and throughout the degree program, each
student will work with the DrPH Faculty Leadership Chair
and/or selected faculty advisor (s). The function of the
DrPH Faculty Leadership Chair and/or selected faculty
advisor (s) is to assist the student in selecting a
course of study that will best serve her/his
professional and academic goals, and to provide other
needed professional and career-related advice.
As
the DrPH program continues to develop, courses and
course descriptions are subject to change. Students are
encouraged to contact the DrPH Faculty Leadership Chair
and/or selected faculty advisor (s) for updated
information regarding current course offerings beyond
those listed below. The capstone sequence consists of 3
inter-related courses: the Doctoral Practicum, Doctoral
Capstone Seminar, and Doctoral Capstone Project. The
Doctoral Capstone Project should grow out of the
coursework that precedes it, including the Doctoral
Practicum. The Doctoral Capstone Project will be
finalized during the Doctoral Capstone Seminar. Students
are advised to begin thinking about their Doctoral
Capstone Project early in their doctoral career so that
they can choose coursework and field experiences that
serve and facilitate its completion. A student may
select among 3 major experiential tracks:
community-based participatory public health; health
policy change; management and administration; or a
combination thereof and/or any other innovative
leadership practicum approved of by the DrPH Faculty
Leadership Chair and/or selected faculty advisor (s).
Typical
Curriculum Outline
Semester 1 (Fall year 1)
PBHL 9023: Advanced Health Behavior Theory
PBHL 9033: Advanced Public Health Policy and
Management
Semester 2 (Spring Year
1)
PBHL 9003: Advanced Biostatistics
PBHL 9473:
Health Services Research Methods
Semester 3 (Summer Year
1)
PBHL 9043: Advanced Environmental and
Occupational Health (odd numbered years)
Semester 4 (Fall year 2)
PBHL 9103: Community-Based Public Health Program
Design/Evaluation (I)
PBHL 9303: Advanced
Organizational Behavior and Leadership in Health
Delivery Systems
Semester 5 (Spring Year
2)
PBHL 9113: Community-Based Public Health Program
Design/Evaluation (II)
PBHL 9013: Advanced
Epidemiology
Semester 6 (Summer Year
2)
PBHL 971V: Professional Development Seminar
Science & Practice Comprehensive Exam
Semester 7 (Fall year 3)
PBHL 9123: Grantsmanship and the Peer Review
Process
PBHL 9313: Communication for Public Health
Leaders
Semester 8 (Spring Year
3)
PBHL 9333: Management Skill Development
PBHL 9???: Public Health Practice Elective
Semester 9 (Summer Year
3)
PBHL 981V: Doctoral Capstone Seminar
Leadership Comprehensive Exam
Semester 10 (Fall year 4)
PBHL 9323: Strategic Planning in Public Health
Programs
PBHL 9???: Leadership Elective
Semester 11 (Spring Year
4)
PBHL 9973: Doctoral Practicum
PBHL 9993:
Doctoral Capstone Project
Semester 12 (Summer Year
4)
PBHL 9973: Doctoral Practicum
PBHL 9993:
Doctoral Capstone Project
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