Competencies

Graduates of the Health Promotion Track will be able to:

Assess individual and community needs and priorities for health promotion:
- Obtain health data about behavioral, social, and cultural environments
- Identify behaviors that tend to promote or compromise health
- Infer needs for health promotion programs on the basis of obtained data;
Explain leading theories of individual, interpersonal, organizational, and community-wide health behavior change and discuss their relevance to health promotion and disease prevention;
Plan evidence-based health promotion interventions utilizing the appropriate theoretical framework:
- Identify community organizations, resources, and potential participants for support and assistance in health promotion intervention planning
- Develop a logical scope and sequence plan for a health promotion intervention
- Formulate appropriate and measurable intervention objectives;
Implement health promotion interventions employing appropriate methods and strategies:
- Identify evidence-based and theoretically-grounded methods and strategies best suited to implement the intervention for a specific population
- Determine the availability of resources needed to implement the intervention for a given population
- Monitor intervention implementation; and
Develop an evaluation plan to assess health promotion interventions:
- Describe methods for evaluating intervention efficacy and effectiveness
- Identify potential performance standards
- Identify existing valid and reliable measures and instruments.

In addition to gaining the track-specific competencies listed above, graduates will also achieve both Department-wide as well as School-wide MPH competencies.

Sociomedical Sciences