University of Nevada Reno (Reno, NV)-Public Health, Ph.D.

Public Health, Ph.D.

I. Contact Information

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School of Community Health Sciences
203 Lombardi
(775) 784-1857

Dr. Wei Yang, Graduate Program Director(775) 682-7094
weiyang@unr.edu

II. Brief Introduction 

The School of Community Health Sciences offers a doctoral system in Public Health with two specializations: 1) Epidemiology, and 2) Social and Behavioral Health. The Ph.D. is intended to get ready understudies for professions in which cutting-edge expository and calculated abilities are required, for example, college educating, exploration, counseling, strategy improvement or other abnormal state positions. The Ph.D. in Public Health with a specialization in Epidemiology stresses the mastery vital for a the study of disease transmission exploration profession. The Ph.D. in Public Health with a specialization in Social and Behavioral Health underscored the mastery essential for a general wellbeing examination vocation concentrating on social and behavioral determinants of wellbeing. 

III. Program Objectives/Student Learning Outcomes 

Graduates will show thorough comprehension of the real neighborhood, national, and worldwide epidemiological, and social and behavioral wellbeing issues. 

Graduates will show brilliance in applying the hypothetical and critical thinking parts of the study of disease transmission, and social and behavioral wellbeing. 

Graduates will have led free research that creates new general wellbeing learning, and is described by calculated and methodological meticulousness. 

Graduates will have the capacity to impart information and examination discoveries to suitable expert, investigative, approach and lay groups of onlookers and exhibit aptitudes in making an interpretation of exploration into general wellbeing routine of wellbeing strategy. 

Graduates will get ready to seek after a lifetime of self-coordinated learning and expert advancement. 

IV. Affirmation Requirements 

Affirmation Deadline: March 15th* 
* Ph.D. applications are acknowledged once every year for fall affirmation. 
Forthcoming understudies must meet BOTH University of Nevada, Reno and School of Community Health Sciences necessities for graduate status. 
Earned Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degree or pertinent expert's or doctoral degrees from authorize foundations. 

1. Least grade point normal of 3.0 or higher on a 4-point scale earned in a M.P.H. on the other hand comparable experts or doctoral system of study. 
2. Focused Graduate Record Exam (GRE) scores on verbal, quantitative, and scientific measures. GRE scores will be evaluated with respect to different candidates in the pool. The exam probably been taken inside of the most recent five years. 
3. Three letters of proposal from people who can assess the candidate's inspiration, scholastic capacity, grant potential, and individual objectives for doctoral study. 
4. A present educational modules vitae (CV). 
5. A composed explanation of individual vocation, instructive and grant objectives including distinguishing proof of examination hobbies. 
6. A scholarly wellbeing related written work test. 
7. An in-individual meeting with Ph.D. personnel.

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