This track is designed to provide both broad-based and in-depth learning experiences focusing on public health issues for children and adolescents in the context of their families and social environments. The ultimate goal of training public health professionals is to improve the health status of children and their families, allowing students interested in a career working with children, adolescents, and families to apply the methods of public health research and practice to services provided to these populations. The program of study will be designed from the following courses:

* Program Design and Evaluation
* Foundations of Child Health
* Quality & Inequality in Health Care: Examination of Health Services
* Maternal & Child Nutrition
* Epidemiology and Prevention of Pediatric Injury
* Foundations of Early Childhood Mental Health
* Systems of Care for Children with Special Needs
* Child Health Policy

 

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