229 PhD programmes in Health Sciences in North America

This Oncological Sciences program is offered at the University of Utah. Join us and study at our great univeristy!

This Functional Foods, Nutrition, and Health PhD program from Mississippi State University is available to those interested in foods or nutrition and health. 

This Health program at York University focuses on the exploration of health policy in relation to equity and international perspectives. 

Health Policy is an interdisciplinary field that investigates how health policy is made, what it is, what it might become, and its impact. The implementation of Health Policy within a society requires an evidence-base, coupled with an explicit strategy and process to achieve specific health care objectives. This degree is offered at McMaster University.

The Health Sciences - Social Sciences and Health program at Northwestern University offers doctoral student training across multiple disciplines within the health sciences, spanning from informatics and program evaluation to implementation science and outcomes research. 

The Kinesiology and Health Science program at York University is primarily research based and offers opportunities for the study of physiology, neuroscience, biomechanics, socio-cultural study of sport, physical activity, health and fitness behaviours.   

The Occupational Injury Prevention Research Training program at University of Utah prepares students to evaluate workplace hazards, design and implement preventive interventions, and evaluate the efficacy of prevention efforts.

The Kinesiology and Health Sciences programme offered by University of Waterloo develops advanced expertise in human movement, health promotion, and disease prevention.

The International Dental Studies (IDS) program at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry from University of the Pacific offers qualified internationally educated dentists the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge of the dental profession as practiced in the United States. 

The Industrial Hygiene program at University of Utah prepares students for an advanced skill set in Industrial Hygiene.

The Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) in Environmental Health Sciences from Columbia University is a professional degree indicating qualification for leadership careers in advanced public health practice and administration related specifically to environmental risks to human health.

At University of Houston, the Graduate Program in Physiological Optics/Vision Science confers an M.S. and/or Ph.D. degree and prepares students to embark on a career in teaching and/or research in the basic or clinical science of vision.

The Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program at University at Buffalo prepares advanced practice nurses for leadership and direct care roles in the planning and delivery of preventive, brief and long-term psychiatric/mental health care.

The Medical Sciences Graduate Program at McMaster University provides opportunities for multidisciplinary graduate education in the Health Sciences within several areas relevant to human health.

The COPH offers a PhD program in Health Equity Sciences at The University of New Mexico which integrates the rich history of public health, with the newer discipline of population health, and the human and social sciences to provide graduates with a rigorous competency-based doctoral degree. 

If you are interested in conducting research and transferring clinical skills from "bench to the bedside," "study to practice," and "practice to policy," then you should consider the DMD/MS in Dental Medicine - Clinical and Translational Science joint degree program at University of Illinois at Chicago.

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Health Sciences at Carleton University provides in-depth, advanced learning and hands-on, interdisciplinary research in health sciences in new, state-of-the-art facilities.

The Community Health Sciences (PhD) program at the University of Manitoba prepares you for a career teaching community health sciences, training other researchers, designing and executing major research projects and serving as a senior advisor or consultant in health care policy and planning.

Our PhD Health Services Research and Policy program at University of Rochester is designed to produce researchers who generate knowledge and strategies used in solving healthcare problems.

More than ever before, today’s health care leaders are faced with complex challenges to translating evidence to practice that require navigating geographical, organizational, economic, cultural, and professional barriers. We offer a Translational Health Sciences degree at George Washington University.