Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H.) - Department of Epidemiology
Kitaw
Demissie, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Chair
For more
information about the Department of Epidemiology, please visit: http://sph.rutgers.edu/departments/EPID/degrees/drph.html.
At the School of Public Health in New Brunswick and
Newark
The
Dr.P.H. degree requires a minimum of 72 credit hours for completion. Candidates for the degree will be required
to pass comprehensive written and oral examinations as well as complete and defend original dissertation
research. In addition, the Dr.P.H. requires students to complete a practicum. Through doctoral-level research, the students
will develop expertise on a single topic, design and implement a research
project, integrate and interpret complex data, and complete a comprehensive
dissertation. Students must plan this
carefully. Although the students will work closely with faculty advisers,
students bear responsibility for developing research of publishable
quality. The curriculum and academic
progress of all doctoral students is monitored by a single doctoral program
committee. The program is designed to be
flexible and responsive to the needs of individual students. A specific course of study will be selected
by the student in consultation with his or her major faculty adviser and then must
be approved by the doctoral committee. Typical programs are detailed within the departments offering doctoral
degrees, although individual students may make substitutions with the written
approval of the doctoral committee.
