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. 2018 Oct 11;133(6):759–766. doi: 10.1177/0033354918804523

Table 2.

Required courses for doctor of public health (DrPH) students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, class of 2019a

Year and Semester Course Number Course Name
Year 1
 Summer DrPH 201 Fundamental Concepts of Public Healthb
DrPH 202 Epidemiologyb
DrPH 203 Biostatisticsb
DrPH 204 Regression Methodsb
DrPH 240 Personal Mastery 1c
HPM 260d Economicsb
 Fall GHP 525 Econometrics for Health Policyb
SBS 506 History, Politics, and Public Healthb
GHP 210 Concepts and Methods for Global Health and Population Studiesb
DrPH 241 Personal Mastery 2c
DrPH 290 Qualitative Researchb
DrPH 250 Enabling Teamsc
 Winter Team field immersionc
 Spring HPM 247 Political Analysis for Health Policyb or
GHP 269 Political Analysisb
DrPH 280 Integrating Seminarb
DrPH 251 Enabling Large-Scale Changec
HPM 252 Negotiationc
DrPH 222 Paradigms of Social Theoryb
Year 2
 Summer Individual field immersionb
 Fall and spring Enabling Change workshopsb
DrPH 290 DrPH DELTA Doctoral Project Seminar
Open for electives

Abbreviations: —, not applicable; DELTA, Doctoral Engagement in Leadership and Translation for Action; GHP, Department of Global Health and Population; HPM, Department of Health Policy and Management; SBS, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

a Source: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.23

b Foundational knowledge courses.

c Enabling change courses.