Overview
Students will be trained in both traditional and innovative areas of prevention science. These include etiology, intervention design and evaluation, innovative data collection and analyses, and implementation science.
Key Features
- The Prevention Science and Community Health program from University of Miami offers students the unique opportunity to interact with faculty who specialize in all stages of the intervention development and evaluation process, as well as in various methodologies such as community-based participatory research and mixed-methods research.
- Program faculty are experts in cultural diversity and health disparities.
Programme Structure
Courses include:- Clinical Trials
- Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
- Community Well-being and Change: Theory and Practice
- Determinants of Health and Health Disparities Across the Life Course
- Health Equity
- Community Based Participatory Research
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 60 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Fall deadline: December 1
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Public Health Health Sciences View 127 other PhDs in Public Health in United StatesAcademic requirements
English requirements
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Applicants must submit their application online through SOPHAS, the centralized application service of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH).
- Applicants must submit official transcripts from all previously attended colleges and universities. All foreign transcripts must be official and submitted in the original language.
- The Graduate Record Exam (GRE) is not required for the PhD in Prevention Science and Community Health program.
- International students whose native language is not English and/or did not graduate from an English-teaching institution are required to submit TOEFL or IELTS scores.
- Applicants must include a detailed resume including employment, public health experiences, community service, research, and academic or professional honors.
- Applicants are required to submit a statement of purpose that details their academic interest in the program.
Tuition Fee
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International
36315 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2421 USD per credit during 60 months. -
National
36315 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2421 USD per credit during 60 months.
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