The community represents a complex set of interactions between individuals, their health-related behaviors, culture, the natural and built environment, the health system, and socioeconomic factors. The doctoral program in Community Health seeks to train individuals in a dynamic, multi-disciplinary approach to understanding and enhancing health at the individual and community levels through rigorous didactic coursework, as well as directed and dissertation research. Students in the Doctoral Program will achieve substantial mastery of the relevant behavioral and social sciences, and will gain a firm footing in quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation methods, biostatistics, and epidemiology. Graduates from the Ph.D. program in Community Health will be prepared for careers in areas including, but not limited to, three broad categories: 1) academic institutions, 2) government agencies, and 3) private/non-governmental organizations. This program will enable graduates to conduct research on factors influencing disease prevention and health promotion at the community level, and/or develop, implement, and monitor and evaluate public health programs targeting communities.