Population Health, PhD

The PhD in population health brings together multiple disciplines, illustrating the complex factors that affect the health and well-being of populations. The program addresses the interaction between health systems and other sectors of society --- including the private sector, government, nonprofit and academia --- to affect the health outcomes of entire populations. Students personalize their program of study by completing courses from one of four tracks: complex adaptive systems: teaches students about theory, principles, models and techniques used to analyze complex systems and data as applied to population health dissemination and implementation science: trains students to identify, translate and implement research that will enable rapid dissemination of evidence health equity: trains doctoral students to conduct empathetic research, incorporating the lived experience of populations vulnerable to health disparities into applied research health services research and policy: enables students to examine access to and use of health care services, costs, quality and safety of care, health care delivery models, organization, financing, and outcomes of health care urban environments for health: prepares students to meet challenges from an evidence-based and transdisciplinary environmental perspective Required courses reinforce a strong repertoire of systems science, quantitative and qualitative research methods, ethics, epidemiology and biostatistics. The practicum offers an applied experience, and the dissertation requires novel research on population health. More details: https://degrees.apps.asu.edu/masters-phd/major/ASU00/NHPOPHLPHD/population-health-phd