Core Competencies PhD

Upon receiving a PhD degree in Public Health, the student will be able to:

• Critically evaluate public health and related literature.
• Discuss and critically evaluate the broad literature of the student’s discipline.
• Review in depth the background and research advances in the student’s specific research area.
• Apply at an advanced level the research methodology of the student’s broader discipline and, in particular, the student’s specific research area.
• Present research to colleagues and professionals on a national and international level at professional meetings.
• Teach a course in the student’s broad discipline.
• Explain the principles of research ethics and apply these principles to specific research projects.
• Design and conduct an advanced, original research project in the student’s discipline.
• Generate data to create publishable manuscripts that represent important contributions to the literature.