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Work with your Faculty Advisor to decide which courses you need to take

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titleUSF and College Catalogs

The requirements for your degree program are contained in the USF catalog for the year you start your degree. When a new catalog is released subsequently, you have the choice of following the new catalog or the one you started with. The USF Graduate School has current and archived catalogs for all USF degrees and programs, available at this link: http://www.grad.usf.edu/catalog.php.

There is also a College catalog, although the USF Catalog has precedence. Current and archived College catalogs are available here: College of Public Health Catalog

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titleCourses and Competencies
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titleDomains and Competencies

Advocacy Domain: The ability to influence decision-making regarding policies and practices that advance public health using scientific knowledge, analysis, communication, and consensus-building.

  • Present positions on health issues, law, and policy in multiple sectors.
  • Analyze the impact of legislation, judicial opinions, regulations, and policies on population health.
  • Influence health policy and program decision-making based on scientific evidence, stakeholder input, and public opinion data.

Leadership Domain: The ability to create and communicate a shared vision for a positive future; inspire trust and motivate others; and use evidence-based contextually and culturally appropriate strategies to enhance essential public health services

  • Demonstrate a commitment to public health professional values.
  • Influence others to achieve high standards of performance and accountability.
  • Promote effective strategies to address the challenges presented to public health leadership
  • Collaborate with multi-disciplinary researchers and practitioners.

Communication Domain: The ability to assess and use communication strategies across diverse audiences to inform and influence individual, organization, community, and policy actions.

  • Discuss the inter-relationships between health communication and marketing.
  • Prepare oral and written communications from briefs, position papers, scientific articles, community pieces
  • Guide an organization in setting communication goals, objectives, priorities, and strategies.
  • Integrate health literacy concepts in all communication and marketing initiatives.

Community/Cultural Orientation Domain: The ability to communicate, interact, engage and work with people across diverse communities and cultures for development of programs, policies, and research.

  • Develop collaborative partnerships with communities, policy makers, and other relevant groups.
  • Conduct community-based participatory intervention and research projects.
  • Engage communities in creating evidence-informed, culturally competent programs.
  • Implement culturally and linguistically appropriate programs, services, and research.

Management Domain: The ability to provide fiscally responsible strategic and operational guidance within both public and private health organizations for achieving individual and community health and wellness.

  • Develop capacity-building strategies at the individual, organizational, and community level.
  • Apply principles of human resource management.
  • Organize the work environment with defined lines of responsibility, authority, communication, and governance.
  • Implement strategic planning processes.
  •  Guide organizational decision-making and planning based on internal and external environmental research.
    • Evaluate organizational performance in relation to strategic and defined goals.

    Professionalism and Ethics Domain: The ability to identify and analyze an ethical issue; balance the claims of personal liberty with the responsibility to protect and improve the health of the population; and act on the ethical concepts of social justice and human rights in public health research and practice.

    • Demonstrate cultural sensitivity in ethical discourse and analysis.
    • Design strategies for resolving ethical concerns in research, law, and regulations.
    • Develop tools that protect the privacy of individuals and communities involved in health programs, policies, and research.

    Critical Analysis Domain: The ability to synthesize and apply evidence-informed research and theory from a broad range of disciplines and health-related data sources to advance programs, policies, and systems promoting population health.

    • Interpret quantitative and qualitative data following current scientific standards.
    • Synthesize information and derive pertinent implications from multiple sources for research and practice.
    • Apply theoretical and evidence-informed perspectives from multiple disciplines in the design and implementation of programs, policies, and systems.
    • Design needs and resource assessments for communities and populations.
    • Translate research-informed approaches to public health practice
    • Evaluate the performance and impact of health programs, policies, and systems
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    titlePhD Course Syllabi

    The syllabi for all PhD courses can be found at this link: Course Listing. You can look to see what content, competencies, learning objectives, and assessments are offered in each course.

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