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Director:  Professor: Elizabeth Rickenbach, Psychology; Affiliated Faculty: Professor: Tauna S. Sisco, Sociology; Associate Professors: Pamela Preston, Nursing; Theresa Dabruzzi, Biology


Community and Public Health is an interdisciplinary science seeking to understand, promote, and protect the health of people and their communities. Public Health is an academic discipline that focuses on preventing and mitigating disease outbreaks and confronting systemic health challenges that affect populations.  Public Health is strongly rooted in principles of health equity, social justice and addressing local and global disparities in health. Public Health is an interdisciplinary major integrating perspectives from Biology, Nursing, Psychology, and Sociology.

Programs

• Community and Public Health

• Community and Public Health Minor

Courses

• CPH 101 - Introduction to Public Health
• CPH 301 - Environmental Health
• CPH 302 - Epidemiology
• CPH 375 - Health Policy and Economics
• CPH 449 - Community/Public Health
• CPH 451 - Public Health Capstone
• CPH 452 - Public Health Experiential Learning
• CPH 610 - Public Health Law
• CPH 611 - Politics and Policy in an Aging Society

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