{"id":1273,"date":"2016-01-07T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T21:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/occupational-environmental\/?page_id=1273"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:44:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T15:44:59","slug":"graduate-programs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/occupational-environmental\/academics-and-research\/graduate-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Student<\/p>\n

Graduate programs in Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine include:<\/p>\n

M.P.H. Program<\/h3>\n

The Master of Public Health program<\/a> is located in the Department of Public Health Sciences<\/a>. The University has awarded the M.P.H. degree since 1984. Its purpose is \u201cto prepare public health professionals to achieve high standards of leadership through exemplary scholarship in teaching, application, discovery, and integration of public health knowledge in order to benefit the well-being of Connecticut residents and others through organized, comprehensive, effective and just action.\u201d Our curriculum focuses on applied public health practice to prepare leaders for our state\u2019s workforce. The Master of Public Health program is nationally accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH).<\/p>\n

Ph.D. in Public Health<\/h3>\n

The Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health program<\/a> was approved by the University and the State Department of Higher Education in April 2006. Options for focused work in public health are many, although the Ph.D. offered at UConn is particularly strong in three areas: social and behavioral health sciences, occupational and environmental health sciences, and chronic disease epidemiology. The Ph.D. in public health is designed to prepare future public health leaders with the academic skills needed to enhance health in human populations, focusing on the preparation of researchers, teachers, public health administrators, clinicians, and industry employees competent to carry out the broad public health mission within Connecticut.<\/p>\n

Occupational Health Psychology<\/h3>\n

The Occupational Health Psychology program<\/a> is offered through the Psychology Department at UConn Storrs. Doctoral students who are interested in developing a concentration in Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) can participate in OHP graduate training that has been developed with the support of a training program grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The program follows a scientist-practitioner model of training with an emphasis on research. Students who choose to concentrate in OHP are studying full-time to receive a Ph.D. in industrial\/organizational psychology and are able to continue their studies over summers with fellowship support from our training grant. Graduate students from other academic degree programs throughout the university are also welcome to participate in the graduate seminars and interdisciplinary research projects that form the basis of the OHP concentration.<\/p>\n

Biodynamics Laboratory<\/h3>\n

The Biodynamics Laboratory<\/a>\u00a0offers graduate training to students from the Biomedical Engineering program at UConn Storrs, as well as introductory biomechanics courses to both UConn campuses. The mission of the Biodynamics Laboratory involves the development of multi-modal measures used in synchronous conjunction to accurately identify and quantify fundamental biodynamic issues of human performance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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