The program’s primary goal is delivery of a competency-based interdisciplinary public health curriculum to prepare culturally competent public health leaders who will address health problems of rural and underserved populations. The program’s service goal is to provide service and outreach opportunities to practice and apply learned public health skills to engage with communities for the prevention of illness and human maladies. The program’s research goal is to actively study and justify worth of public health programs through translational research.

 

The program’s goals that describe strategies to accomplish the defined mission:

 

1. Develop skilled professionals who will become leaders in applying an ecological perspective to promote individual and community health.

 

2. Delivery of a competency-based public health curriculum to prepare culturally competent public health leaders who will enhance public health equity in rural and underserved populations.

 

3. Provide service and outreach opportunities to practice and apply learned public health skills to engage with communities for the prevention of illness and human maladies.

 

4. Build on Oklahoma State University’s One-Health initiative to promote research in fields impacting human health, animal health, and environmental health.

 

OSU MPH Program-Specific Competencies

 

1. Critique health behavior theories for their utility in implementing community-led interventions.
2. Compose specific and measurable objectives for effective evaluation of rural community health interventions.
3. Assess and employ the Cultural Variance Model for tailoring health communication materials.
4. Understand and apply ethical principles to data acquisition, management, storage, sharing, and analysis.
5. Use a conceptual framework to assess the determinants of population health.