Arizona State University The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 7 courses 84 total credits
The Doctor of Philosophy program in global health draws on the premise that sustainable and satisfying solutions to the most pressing global health challenges require a sophisticated understanding of how cultural context, social and ecological processes and disease are really related. This transdisciplinary graduate program trains you broadly in health social science research theory and methods. The program leverages the strength of ASU's medical anthropology programming and 15 medical anthropologists, and it has the advantage of accessing an exceptionally wide set of skills offered by those in such fields as medical sociology, demography, human geography and epidemiology. Some particular thematic foci of the program are biocultural approaches to human coping, computer-based complexity modeling, culture and health, health in the Americas, and Indigenous and minority health, as well as mathematical epidemiology, nutritional anthropology, social justice and vulnerable populations, social networks, and urban and environmental health. The program draws some 80 faculty members from throughout the university to consider how social science can be applied to understand and substantively improve the health of populations. The program favors community-based research in communities of all sizes and types, from hunter-gatherer communities to large U.S. cities, and runs collaborative projects in which you are encouraged to gain experience and conduct research. You generally enter the program with a master's degree in a relevant field.
| Required Core | 3 credits |
| Electives | 39 credits |
| Other Requirements | 18 credits |
| Research | 12 credits |
| Culminating Experience | 12 credits |
| Total Credits | 84 credits |
Required Core
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ASB 510 | Health: Social and Biocultural Theories | 3 |
| Total Required Core | 3 credits | |
Electives
Other Requirements
systematic methods courses (6)
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ASB 500 | Topic: Qualitative Data Analysis | 3 |
| ASB 501 | Professionalism | 3 |
| ASM 579 | Proposal Writing | 3 |
| SSH 591 | Seminar: Principles of Epidemiology for Global Health | 3 |
| Total Other Requirements | 18 credits | |
Culminating Experience
| Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ASB 799 | Dissertation | 12 |
| Total Culminating Experience | 12 credits | |
Additional Curriculum Information
For electives, students should see the academic unit for a course list approved by the chair. Other requirement coursework may be substituted with the approval of the academic unit. At least two systematic methods courses in an area other than epidemiology or biostatistics and ethnography should be selected, such as nutrition, survey, archival analysis, demography or geographic information systems. When approved by the student's supervisory committee and the Graduate College, this program may allow up to 30 credit hours from a previously awarded master's degree to be used for this program. If students do not have a previously awarded master's degree, the remaining coursework is made up of electives.
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