Doctor of Public Health

You are already committed to improving public health—now it’s time to level up! Our doctoral graduates are leaders in public health, healthcare, and research. They are university professors, hospital CEOs, health department directors, and world-class practitioners and scientists. They shape health policy, they prevent disease, and they make the world healthier. Whether you’re a full-time student or an employed public health professional, our doctoral program will give you the knowledge, skills, and values you’ll need to be a leader in public health.

Our doctorate degree in public health will prepare you for broad-based public health practice through advanced courses in: biostatistics, environmental health, epidemiology, health services administration and social and behavioral sciences. Because public health is an interdisciplinary field with several career options, graduates can pursue several careers, such as: healthcare administrator, university or college professor, health policy analyst, biostatistician and epidemiologist.

With more than 27,000 students, approximately 140 different degree programs, and three campuses with a single vision of growing others, Georgia Southern University is already moving and ready for more. The historic brick streets or moss-dripping oak trees may make our picturesque campuses seem pristine, but there’s a lot of roll-up-your-sleeves work going on here. Research is focused on community impact. Teaching is focused on the students. And the students are focused on their future.

Since 1906, the University’s hallmark has been a culture of engagement that bridges theory with practice, extends the learning environment beyond the classroom, and promotes student growth and life success. Central to the University’s mission is the faculty’s dedication to excellence in teaching and the development of a fertile learning environment exemplified by a free exchange of ideas, high academic expectations, and individual responsibility for academic achievement. Faculty, staff, and students embrace core values of collaboration, academic excellence, discovery and innovation, integrity, openness and inclusion, and sustainability.