Health Promotion Track Competencies

The goal of the Health Promotion track is to prepare students for advanced study or professional work in the fields of community health, health education, and health promotion in a wide variety of settings. The curriculum prepares students to utilize public health approaches to develop, administer, implement, and evaluate culturally sensitive health promotion and behavior-change programs, as well as to mobilize community resources for planned social change.

Student completing this track will be able to:

  1. Apply theory in the development, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion interventions, programs, and policies.
  2. Develop interventions and programs to effect change at multiple levels, including individual, community, organization, and policy.
  3. Design and implement strategies to promote health.
  4. Solicit and integrate input from community and organization stakeholders.
  5. Design and deliver health communication messages.
  6. Evaluate and interpret results from program evaluations and other research.
  7. Define research problems, frame research questions, design research procedures, and outline methods of analysis.
  8. Apply ethical principles that govern the practice of public health.
  9. Enact cultural competency in diverse social and cultural communities.
  10. Develop a substantive area of emphasis.