This program is available at the following locations:

• Corvallis
• Ecampus

The public health graduate minor is designed for students in other majors who are interested in public health. Our public health program is built on the foundation of biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, global health, health promotion and health behavior, and health systems and policy. Our curricula incorporate an ecological approach to disease prevention and health promotion, including cultural, social, environmental, behavioral, and economic factors that impact population health.

Minor Code: 7580

Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:

Master

• Conduct research or produce some other form of creative work.
• Demonstrate mastery of subject material.
• Conduct scholarly or professional activities in an ethical manner.
• Apply epidemiological methods to settings and situations in public health practice.
• Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming, and software, as appropriate.
• Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy, or practice.
• Compare the organization, structure, and function of health care, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings.
• Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community and systemic levels.
• Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities’ health.
• Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design, implementation, or critique of public health policies or programs
• Design a population-based policy, program, project, or intervention.
• Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management.
• Select methods to evaluate public health programs.
• Discuss the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence.
• Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes.
• Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations.
• Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity.
• Apply leadership and/or management principles to address a relevant issue.
• Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges.
• Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors.
• Communicate audience-appropriate (i.e., non-academic, non-peer audience) public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation.
• Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content.
• Integrate perspectives from other sectors and/or professions to promote and advance population health.
• Apply a systems thinking tool to visually represent a public health issue in a format other than standard narrative.

Doctoral

• Produce and defend an original significant contribution to knowledge.
• Demonstrate mastery of subject material.
• Conduct scholarly activities in an ethical manner.

Graduate minors require a minimum of 15 credits for masters students and 18 credits for doctoral students.

Students will design the curriculum with a faculty advisor from one of the public health graduate programs. For more information, contact a faculty member in one of the public health graduate programs or the Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs in the College of Health.

Minor Code: 7580