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MPH in Public Health Practice

Current health professionals enhance their skills in developing public health programs.

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PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences

State of the art doctoral education to those who desire to transform public health.

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MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Address the behavioral factors related to population health and health disparities.

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PhD Program Tour

We have created a program tour so you can become accoustomed to the process.

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MS in School Health Education

Experiential instruction enables students to be informed health consumers.

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The MPH in Public Health Practice degree offered by the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBHS) is designed to enable current public health and health care professionals to enhance their skills in developing, implementing and evaluating programs to have an impact on the health of the public.  Read More

Welcome to the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, one of the original departments of West Virginia University’s emerging School of Public Health.

Message from the Chair

Health disparities in West Virginia and elsewhere are due in part to the lifestyle choices made by individuals and communities as well as underlying socio-economic forces that influence health and disease.  Consequently, there is consensus in public health that cost-effective improvements in population health must address, but go beyond, individual behavior change to large-scale modifications in policies, environments, and cultures to create broad, systematic changes across entire communities.

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