Johns Hopkins University, one of the most recognizable names in the field of medicine, offers a Ph.D. degree program in public health. As one of the world's premier medical research institutions, students benefit from the university's multiple research centers and from the variety of emphases within the Ph.D. program. Students can pursue specializations in health policy and health services research; health policy and bioethics; the economics of health policy; and public policy and health.
Johns Hopkins University
Office of Academic Affairs
Department of Health Policy and Management
624. N. Broadway, 4th Floor
Baltimore, MD 21205
410-955-3625
jhsph.edu
A second option for a Ph.D. in public health studies is the doctoral program offered through the School of Public Health at St. Louis University. SLU is a private Catholic institution with well-respected medical and public health programs. SLU offers several areas of concentration within its program allowing students to specialize in an area that meets their academic and vocational objectives. These areas include the fields of biosecurity and disaster preparation, biostatistics, behavioral science, health services research, epidemiology, health management and policy and occupational and environmental health.
St. Louis University
School of Public Health
3545 Lafayette Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63104
314-977-8100
publichealth.slu.edu
Oregon State University offers a third option for a Ph.D. in public health. Areas of specialization within the program include health promotion; environment, health and safety; and health policy and management. Oregon State's Ph.D. program requires 109 credit hours of graduate level work. Of these, 36 credit hours must be devoted to the doctoral dissertation. Oregon State students also benefit from working through a number of research centers devoted to the field of public health, including the Center for Healthy Aging Research and the Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families.
Oregon State University
College of Health and Human Sciences
123 Womens Building
Corvallis, OR 97331
541-737-3220
www.hhs.oregonstate.edu
A fourth option for a Ph.D. in public health is through the program offered at San Diego State University. Although not internationally renowned in the same way as Johns Hopkins or Harvard University, SDSU offers a highly competitive Ph.D. program in the field of public health. The three primary concentrations within the program include global health, health behavior and epidemiology. SDSU works in a cooperative relationship with the University of California at San Diego to offer students this program and the concentrations within the program. Courses in epidemiology, for instance, are heavily dependent upon the medical expertise of UCSD medical school faculty members, while SDSU faculty members are largely responsible for the course offerings emphasizing administrative and management aspects of the public health industry.
San Diego State University
Hardy Tower 119
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego CA 92182
619-594-6317
publichealth.sdsu.edu