预防科学专业哲学博士（博士学位）。博士 公共卫生专业的预防科学专业为学生做好了从事公共卫生研究职业的准备，这些职业需要跨学科的技能来应对快速变化的学科的挑战。学生准备成为独立的研究人员，专注于预防科学及其通过先进的定量和定性方法在循证实践中的应用。拥有博士学位的学生 预防科学领域的专家是联邦和州卫生机构，学术卫生中心和医院，政策与研究机构，管理的护理和保险公司以及卫生计划组织的学者和领导人。
The Ph.D. degree in Public Health bridges public safety and health career pathways to address a nationwide shortage of public health workers.<br>The Prevention Science concentration is an interdisciplinary program aimed at promoting healthy behaviors in populations across the life course. Graduates are prepared to design and evaluate public health interventions and have expertise in a variety of theoretical and substantive perspectives for conducting research within systems of the family, health and education, workplace and community. Active faculty research provide students the opportunity to work on community-based prevention research.