2020/2021 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Public Health
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OFFICE: Hardy Tower 119
TELEPHONE: 619-594-6317 / FAX: 619-594-6112
WEBSITE: http://publichealth.sdsu.edu
Undergraduate Information
Faculty
Emeritus: Brodine, Chang, de Peyster, Elder, Gersberg, Hofherr, Hovell, Koch, Lindsay, Macera, Mayer, McTaggart, Noto, Novotny, Peddecord, Seidman, Senn, Slymen, Sorochan, Williams
Director: Madanat
Undergraduate Adviser/Division Head: Emory
Professors: Arredondo, Ayala, Corliss, Finlayson, Hoh, Kiene, Madanat, Quintana, Shaffer, Stoskopf, Valafar, Yu
Associate Professors: Alcaraz, Baek, Calzo, Chowdhury, Crespo, Oren, Reed, Wu
Assistant Professors: Lipton, Parada, Sant, Schiaffino, Thompson, Yang
Lecturer: Emory
The Major
The public health major provides a broad educational opportunity and exposure of undergraduate students to the field of public health and its many disciplines. The major prepares students to develop, implement, and assess public health programs conducted in varied settings, with diverse populations and aimed at reducing threats to public health. The major prepares students for entry-level positions in a variety of settings, including government agencies, private/voluntary agencies, hospitals, clinics, and international programs. Students develop basic competencies in public health concepts, theories, and methods. Students are exposed to the disciplines of epidemiology, environmental health, occupational health, health services administration, and behavioral science. The program of study uses examples of public health problems from all of these disciplines.
Retention Policy
The College of Health and Human Services expects that all public health majors will make reasonable academic progress towards the degree. Public health premajors who have completed major preparatory courses, earned 60 units, but have less than a 2.9 GPA may be removed from the premajor and placed in undeclared.
Impacted Program and Standards for Admission
The public health major is an impacted program. To be admitted to the public health major, students must meet the following criteria:
- Receive a grade of B (3.0) or better in P H 101 and P H 292 . These courses cannot be taken for credit/no credit (Cr/NC);
- Complete each remaining course in preparation for the major with a minimum grade of C. These courses cannot be taken for credit/no credit (Cr/NC);
- Complete all courses in preparation for the major with a minimum GPA of 2.75;
- Have a cumulative GPA of 2.90 or better.
To complete the major, students must fulfill the degree requirements for the major described in the catalog in effect at the time they are accepted into the premajor at SDSU (assuming continuous enrollment).
Major Academic Plans (MAPs)
Visit http://www.sdsu.edu/mymap for the recommended courses needed to fulfill your major requirements. The MAPs website was created to help students navigate the course requirements for their majors and to identify which General Education course will also fulfill a major preparation course requirement.
Graduate Information
Faculty
Office of the Director
Hala N. Madanat, Ph.D., Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Public Health (Health Promotion and Behavioral Science), Director of School
Susan M. Kiene, Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor of Public Health (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Associate Director for Academic Affairs in the School of Public Health
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Stephanie K. Brodine, M.D., Professor of Public Health, Emeritus, Division Head
Richard A. Shaffer, Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor of Public Health
Elena S. H. Yu, Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor of Public Health
John E. Alcaraz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Health
Eyal Oren, Ph.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Public Health
Tianying Wu, M.D., Ph.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Public Health
Humberto Parada, Ph.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Public Health
Caroline Thompson, Ph.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Public Health
Mingan Yang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Public Health
Miguel A. Fraga, M.D., Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health
Health Management and Policy
Jong-Deuk Baek, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Health, Division Head
Tracy L. Finlayson, Ph.D., Professor of Public Health
Carleen H. Stoskopf, Sc.D., M.S., Professor of Public Health
Brandy Lipton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Public Health
Melody Schiaffino, Ph.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor of Public Health
Nicola Macchione, M.P.H., M.S., John J. Hanlon Executive Scholar
Health Promotion and Behavioral Science
Guadalupe X. Ayala, Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor of Public Health, Division Head
Elva M. Arredondo, Ph.D., Professor of Public Health
Heather L. Corliss, Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor of Public Health
John P. Elder, Ph.D., M.P.H., Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Public Health, Emeritus
Melbourne F. Hovell, Ph.D., M.P.H., Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Public Health, Emeritus
Jerel P. Calzo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Health
Noe C. Crespo, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Health
Elizabeth Reed, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Health
Environmental Health
Eunha Hoh, Ph.D., Professor of Public Health, Division Head
Richard M. Gersberg, Ph.D., Professor of Public Health, Emeritus
Penelope J.E. (Jenny) Quintana, Ph.D., M.P.H., Professor of Public Health (Graduate Adviser)
M. Zohir Chowdhury, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Health
Karilyn Sant, Ph.D., M.P.H. Assistant Professor of Public Health
Preventive Medicine Residency
Linda L. Hill, M.D., M.P.H., Adjunct Professor of Public Health, Director
Jill Waalen, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health
Ryan Moran, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Clinical Professor, Family Medicine and Public Health, UCSD
Deepa Sannidhi, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor, Family Medicine and Public Health, UCSD
The John J. Hanlon Chair in Health Services Research and Policy
Alvarado Hospital Medical Center has joined with SDSU’s faculty and staff to create The John J. Hanlon Chair in Health Services Research and Policy in the School of Public Health (SPH). The chair is named in honor of the late Dr. John J. Hanlon, former assistant surgeon general for the U.S. Public Health Service. Dr. Hanlon coordinated the planning and development of SDSU’s School of Public Health.
General Information
The School of Public Health offers advanced study leading to the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Public Health, Master of Science, and a program that allows students to earn the Master of Public Health concurrently with the Master of Social Work, the Master of Arts in Latin American Studies, or the Doctor of Medicine. The Ph.D. is offered in three concentration areas, to include epidemiology, global health, health behavior with various specialization opportunities (see doctoral program); the M.P.H. is offered with concentrations in the areas of biometry, environmental health, epidemiology, health promotion and behavioral science, and health management and policy; the M.S. degree is offered with a concentration in the area of environmental health sciences. In addition to these advanced degree programs, the school offers a preventive medicine residency program that prepares qualified physicians to sit for the American Board of Preventive Medicine certification examination. Residents may receive the M.P.H. degree along with completion of this residency program. Finally, the public health faculty directs academic study leading to a Bachelor of Science degree in health science for those undergraduate students interested in public health. For more information concerning this undergraduate program, see the General Catalog.
The School of Public Health is nationally accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). The graduate program in health management and policy is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Health Management Education (CAHME), and the preventive medicine residency program is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
The curriculum in the School of Public Health has been designed to prepare students as practitioners of public health as well as for careers in teaching and research and as leaders in both public and private sector agencies and organizations. To accomplish this mission effectively, the faculty of the School of Public Health is augmented by expert practitioners in specialized fields related to public health who contribute to both the academic and practical experiences of students pursuing public health degrees. These professionals, who hold research or adjunct professorships in the school, come from a variety of settings such as the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), HMOs, hospitals, industry, managed care agencies, military services, and other academic institutions.
The School of Public Health has established close cooperation with the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. The UCSD medical school faculty has joined the public health faculty at SDSU in offering the Ph.D. in public health as well as the preventive medicine residency program. Under a special affiliation agreement between the two institutions, medical students at UCSD may take public health courses at SDSU while pursuing their medical studies and, if they choose, earn the M.D. and M.P.H. degrees concurrently. Likewise, SDSU students pursuing advanced study in the SPH may enroll for specialized courses in the medical school.
This broad network of individual practitioners and the institutions they serve provides a variety of health facilities in which students at the SPH may meet field studies and practicum requirements. Many of these opportunities are available not only in the San Diego region, but also in Mexico. The school’s proximity to the Mexican border has led to the development of strong professional ties between the faculty and students of the SPH and their counterparts in Baja California. Special arrangements with the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California enable students to take courses for credit at the Tijuana campus. This connection has produced a continuing series of jointly sponsored binational research and service projects designed to improve public health conditions and health services on both sides of the border.
Research
Faculty and student research in the broad interdisciplinary field of public health is conducted within the various specialized areas that are generally defined by the degree concentrations. The following descriptions illustrate the focus of research within each of these areas.
Biometry and Biostatistics: Development and application of statistical methods and models in the fields of public health, medicine, and biology. A concentration in biometry, and the scope of the academic and research opportunities in the university may be seen in the listing for the program in biostatistics and biometry presented earlier in this bulletin.
Environmental Health: Identification, evaluation and control of chemical, biological and physical agents in the environment. Current emphasis is on U.S.-Mexico border issues and on applying emerging technologies to environmental programs.
Epidemiology: Identification of biological, environmental, social, and behavioral risk factors of human disease; determination of the distribution and etiology of disease in human populations, particularly infectious and chronic diseases.
Health Promotion and Behavioral Science: Identification of risk and protective factors associated with physical and mental health and the development and evaluation of interventions aimed at changing multi-level determinants of health outcomes; emphasis is placed on vulnerable populations, such as racial and ethnic minorities, sexual and gender minorities, and underserved populations.
Health Management and Policy: Management of health care facilities, services, and organizations; planning and evaluation of public and private sector programs; administration and operations in specialty services, hospitals, ambulatory care, insurance companies, HMOs, and other health-related organizations.
Affiliated Research Centers
In an effort to serve the community at large, the School of Public Health sponsors the Institute for Public Health. The institute serves as the school’s bridge with the community, facilitating field practice opportunities, community-based research and program evaluations, and a venue for continuing education.
In addition, a number of research centers and institutes have been established to integrate the specialized research of its faculty and students. These are the Center for Behavioral Epidemiology and Community Health (CBEACH), the Center for Research on Sexuality and Sexual Health (SASH), and the Institute for Behavioral and Community Health (IBACH). For more information on these centers, see College of Health and Human Services .
Admission to Master’s and Doctoral Study
Master of Public Health Degree
Master of Science Degree in Epidemiology
Master of Science Degree in Public Health
Master of Public Health Degree and Master of Arts Degree in Latin American Studies
Students applying for admission should electronically submit the university application available at http://www.calstate.edu/apply along with the application fee as described in Admission and Registration .
All applicants must submit admissions materials separately to SDSU Graduate Admissions and to the School of Public Health.
Graduate Admissions
The following materials should be submitted as a complete package directly to:
Graduate Admissions
Enrollment Services
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-7416
- Official transcripts (in sealed envelopes) from all post-secondary institutions attended;
NOTE:
- Students who attended SDSU need only submit transcripts for work completed since last attendance.
- Students with international coursework must submit both the official transcript and proof of degree. If documents are in a language other than English, they must be accompanied by a certified English translation.
- GRE scores (http://www.ets.org SDSU institution code 4682);
- English language score, if medium of instruction was in a language other than English (http://www.ets.org SDSU institution code 4682).
School of Public Health
Applicants seeking admission to the Master of Public Health, Master of Science, or Master of Public Health and Master of Arts degree in Latin American Studies should contact the School of Public Health requesting appropriate descriptive materials. Detailed application instructions can be obtained from our website at http://publichealth.sdsu.edu.
Students who do not fully meet the requirements for admission with classified graduate standing may be considered for conditionally classified graduate standing upon recommendation of the admissions committee and the graduate adviser.
Master of Social Work Degree and Master of Public Health Degree
Students applying for admission should electronically submit the university application available at http://www.calstate.edu/apply along with the application fee.
All applicants must submit admissions materials separately to SDSU Graduate Admissions and to the School of Social Work.
Graduate Admissions
The following materials should be submitted as a complete package directly to:
Graduate Admissions
Enrollment Services
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-7416
- Official transcripts (in sealed envelopes) from all post-secondary institutions attended;
NOTE:
- Students who attended SDSU need only submit transcripts for work completed since last attendance.
- Students with international coursework must submit both the official transcript and proof of degree. If documents are in a language other than English, they must be accompanied by a certified English translation.
- GRE scores (http://www.ets.org SDSU institution code 4682);
- English language score, if medium of instruction was in a language other than English (http://www.ets.org SDSU institution code 4682).
School of Social Work
The following materials should be mailed or delivered to:
School of Social Work
(Attention: Graduate Adviser)
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-4119
- A narrative statement as described in Instructions for Applicants;
- Three letters of recommendation.
Ph.D. Degree in Public Health
Students applying for admission should electronically submit the university application available at http://www.calstate.edu/apply along with the application fee.
All applicants must submit admissions materials separately to SDSU Graduate Admissions and to the School of Public Health.
Graduate Admissions
The following materials should be submitted as a complete package directly to:
Graduate Admissions
Enrollment Services
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-7416
- Official transcripts (in sealed envelopes) from all post-secondary institutions attended;
NOTE:
- Students who attended SDSU need only submit transcripts for work completed since last attendance.
- Students with international coursework must submit both the official transcript and proof of degree. If documents are in a language other than English, they must be accompanied by a certified English translation.
- GRE scores (http://www.ets.org SDSU institution code 4682);
- English language score, if medium of instruction was in a language other than English (http://www.ets.org SDSU institution code 4682).
School of Public Health
Prospective applicants for the doctoral program in public health should go to http://ph.ucsd.edu/jdp/admissions/index.html for information on application procedures and deadlines.
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