The mission of the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in health education program is to prepare doctoral degree graduates in advanced study and research in community/public health. The program prepares advanced students to contribute to the field of health education through teaching, research, and service. Although health and research courses are required, the program is individualized through selection of elective courses and a cognate to develop each student for leadership roles in universities, the private health sector, or government agencies.
There are seven areas or responsibilities that graduates of the Health Education Doctoral program are expected to have mastery. These are found on the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing page at http://www.nchec.org/aboutnchec/rc.htm.
The doctoral program at UT consists of 70 credit hours beyond the Masters degree. This is broken down as follows:
A. General Core Requirements (12 credit hours)
| HEAL 8800 | Scientific Writing in Health | 3cr |
| RESM 8120 | Quantitative Methods II | 3cr |
| RESM 8320 | Research Design | 3cr |
One course from the following
| RESM 7330 | Qualitative Research I | 3cr |
| RESM 8130 | Multivariate Statistics | 3cr |
| RESM 8160 | Nonparametric Statistics | 3cr |
| RESM 8350 | Survey Research Methods | 3cr |
| HEAL 8700 | Epidemiology | 3cr |
B. Major Courses (36 total credit hours between Required and Elective Courses)
Required Courses (24 credit hours)
| HEAL 8000 | Professional Issues in Health Education | 2cr |
| HEAL 8360 | Applied Survey Research in Health | 2cr |
| HEAL 8200 | Methods and Materials in Public Health | 3cr |
| HEAL 8300 | Community Health Organization | 3cr |
| HEAL 8460 | Health Promotion Programs | 3cr |
| HEAL 8600 | Health Behavior | 3cr |
| HEAL 8640 | Issues in Public Health | 3cr |
| HEAL 8800 | Evaluation of Health Programs | 3cr |
| HEAL 8900 | Grant Writing in Health | 2cr |
Elective Courses (12 credit hours)
| HEAL 7930 | General Seminar in Health Education | 1-3cr |
| HEAL 7940 | School Health Internship | 1-4cr |
| HEAL 8280 | Health Communication | 3cr |
| HEAL 8100 | College Teaching of Health Education | 2cr |
| HEAL 8420 | Sports Nutrition | 3cr |
| HEAL 8500 | Issues in School Health | 3cr |
| HEAL 8520 | Public Health Nutrition | 3cr |
| HEAL 8530 | Drug Use and Misuse | 3cr |
| HEAL 8540 | Human Sexuality | 3cr |
| HEAL 8720 | Issues in Minority Health | 3cr |
| HEAL 8930 | Interdisciplinary Seminar in Health Education | 3cr |
| HEAL 8940 | Public Health Internship | 1-4cr |
| HEAL 8990 | Independent Study in Health Education | 1-3cr |
| PUBH 7500 | Reproductive Epidemiology | 3cr |
| PUBH 8250 | Nutritional Epidemiology | 3cr |
| PUBH 8550 | Chronic Disease Epidemiology | 3cr |
| PUBH 8590 | Epidemiology of Aging | 3cr |
| PUBH 8750 | Applied Biostatistics | 3cr |
| PUBH 8820 | Epidemiology Methods | 3cr |
Cognate Area Options (12 credit hours for Cognate Area)
Doctoral Disseratation (10 credit hours)
| HEAL 8960 | Doctoral Research Dissertation | 1-12cr |