Program director
Hildemar Dos Santos
The Preventive Care Program prepares high-level professionals for wellness and lifestyle-management intervention. Emphasis is on academic preparation, practical skills, and administrative abilities in developing, implementing, and evaluating programs and protocols designed to address a wide spectrum of health issues—particularly those dealing with chronic disease. These programs and protocols include physical and mental health-risk appraisal, nutritional assessment and recommendations, exercise testing and prescription, and smoking-cessation counseling.
The program focuses on chronic disease prevention and offers a holistic approach to preventing diseases like diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancer, hypertension and other lifestyle-related conditions. Graduates address the combined influences of nutrition, exercise, stress, smoking, and other lifestyle factors on the promotion of health and the prevention of disease. The training also includes an individual approach to lifestyle counseling based on the principles of health coaching. Graduates of this program are prepared to sit for the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaching Certificate exam.
Non-physicians are not able to practice medicine upon completion of this degree.
This program is offered online (combination of synchronous and asynchronous coursework).
By the end of the program, graduates should be able to:
In addition to the entrance requirements for all Dr.P.H. degrees, applicants to the preventive care concentration must have:
Anatomy and physiology (or equivalent to be evaluated by program director).
In addition to standard Dr.P.H. corequisites, the preventive care concentration requires the following courses in addition to units required for the degree. It is recommended these courses be taken early in the program.
HPRO 526 Lifestyle Diseases and Risk Reduction
HPRO 573 Exercise Physiology I
| Critical analysis | ||
| PHCJ 600 | Overview of Research Methodologies | 3 |
| PHCJ 615 | Intermediate Biostatistics | 3 |
| STAT 568 | Data Analysis | 3 |
| Leadership, management, and governance | ||
| PHCJ 617 | Building Healthy Systems | 3 |
| PHCJ 619 | Organizational Management & Leadership | 3 |
| Education and workforce development | ||
| PHCJ 614 | Pedagogy: The Art and Science of Teaching | 2 |
| PHCJ 618 | Transformative Communication | 2 |
| Policy, advocacy, and programs | ||
| PHCJ 609 | Building Healthy Individuals | 3 |
| PHCJ 610 | Building Healthy Communities | 3 |
| Doctoral Seminar | ||
| PHCJ 608A | Doctoral Seminar for Public Health | 1 |
| PHCJ 608B | Doctoral Seminar for Public Health | 1 |
| Preventive care major | ||
| HPRO 527 | Obesity and Disordered Eating | 3 |
| HPRO 529 | Preventive and Therapeutic Interventions in Chronic Disease | 3 |
| HPRO 580 | Preventive Care Management | 3 |
| HPRO 644 | Health and Wellness Coaching | 3 |
| NUTR 656 | Nutritional Applications in Lifestyle Intervention | 3 |
| Electives | 0-6 | |
| Select the recommendation below or discuss alternate options with your advisor: | ||
| HPRO 542 | Wellness Coaching II (for students seeking eligibility for NBHWC certification) | 3 |
| Religion | ||
| RELE 5__ | Graduate-level Ethical | 3 |
| RELT 5__ | Graduate-level Theological | 3 |
| RELR 5__ | Graduate-level Relational | 3 |
| Integrated learning experience | ||
| PHCJ 698 | Doctoral Project | 4-8 |
| Total Units | 58-68 | |
| Practicum units are in addition to the minimum didactic units required for the degree | ||
| PHCJ 795 | Applied Practice | 2 |
Fulfills service learning requirement
Requires multiple registrations to fulfill total unit requirement
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