About Public Health Sciences

To prepare students to be clinical professionals and health services leaders.

Prepare students to pursue undergraduate or graduate clinical professional education.

The Health Management Program focuses on student success by developing students to be essential educational, cultural, and economic drivers in healthcare.

To provide knowledge of aging and its impact on individuals, families, and society to prepare students for or engaged in careers in which they will plan, manage, and deliver services for the aging through public or private sector organizations, agencies or institutions.

1. Communication: Apply appropriate interprofessional health communication strategies to develop and deliver oral, written, and electronic messages for professionals, patients, and community audiences.
2. Analytic Assessment: Use basic analytic tools to interpret healthcare data to improve decision-making and health outcomes.
3. Healthcare Policy and Administration: Apply foundational policy and administrative concepts to evaluate the local, national, and global healthcare strategies and systems
4. Evidence Based Practice and Quality Improvement: Execute evidence-based practice principles through locating, summarizing, and using research findings to address improvements to healthcare structures, processes, and outcomes.
5. Leadership and Management: Demonstrate leadership and management principles to address team-based challenges and problem-solving in healthcare.
6. Health Outcomes: Identify health-related social, cultural, and economic trends that impact population health.
7. Professionalism: Demonstrate responsibility, integrity, ethics, and dedication to lifelong learning.

1. Foundational Clinical Knowledge:  Demonstrate knowledge of foundational natural and physical sciences.  
2. Evidence-Based Practice: Analyze evidence to appraise clinical and patient outcomes.  
3. Healthcare Administration: Demonstrate foundational knowledge of the U.S. healthcare system delivery and management.  
4. Public Health and Education: Identify strategies for protecting, promoting, and assuring population health outcomes. 
5. Safe and Informed Care: Identify methods to support quality population health outcomes for all.  
6. Interprofessionalism: Practice effective interprofessional communication and collaboration.  

1. Distinguish between the key theories of aging.
2. Differentiate "normal" aging from disease or pathology.
3. Interpret key parameters of the Medicare program including policy approaches and coverage.
4. Identify factors responsible for uniqueness in each person's adult development.
5. Demonstrate communication skills, critical thinking, management of relationships, and analysis of information.
6. Assemble & analyze appropriate research to evaluate various aging perspectives in current literature.

1. Exhibit oral and written communication skills for diverse populations and environments.
2. Demonstrate competency in health leadership, management, and policy using systems thinking.
3. Demonstrate professionalism and knowledge of health care ethics, legal issues, stewardship, social justice, and lifelong learning.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of social, behavioral, cultural, economic, and environmental factors that impact the operations of health care organizations.
5. Develop skills and knowledge of the operation and value of strategic planning in health care settings.