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Upon receiving an M.P.H. degree in the Advanced Professional M.P.H. Program, with a concentration in Preventive Medicine, the student will be able to:

• Evaluate the scientific merit and feasibility of epidemiologic study designs.
• Construct research hypotheses and design a study to test these hypotheses.
• Synthesize information from a variety of epidemiologic and related studies.
• Describe the appropriate statistical analyses to examine different types of epidemiologic and social and behavioral research questions.
• Identify, interpret, and use routinely collected data on disease occurrence.
• Review, critique, and evaluate epidemiologic reports and research articles at an intermediate level.
• Apply social, psychological, and behavioral theory in the design, implementation, and evaluation of prevention interventions.
• Describe the role of health behavior in disease.
• Evaluate and interpret health behavior change interventions.
• Review, interpret, and evaluate epidemiologic reports and research articles pertaining to occupational and environmental risk factors.
• Synthesize complex data sources about occupational and environmental hazards to make inferences about human risk.