University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

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Phone: 1-412-648-7640
Fax: 1-412-648-7641

Description:
Sustaining or accelerating economic growth while encouraging desirable social change remains a crucial issue. Most countries have had only mixed success in planning and implementing national development. This complex phenomenon of social change-the issues raised and the efforts to direct development at both the local and national levels-is the focus of the Economic and Social Development Program.

Involved is the application of economics, political science, public management, and sociology to planned change in a host of areas, including: agriculture, urban development, industry, public health, NGOs and development, education, and social programs. Students are trained as generalists to insure an awareness of the development process-as well as the economic, social, and political environments in which communities develop. They gain experience planning, analyzing, appraising, and implementing projects at the local, regional, national, and international levels. As they refine their skills, students are given an opportunity to concentrate on areas of special interest. The goal is to produce informed, action-oriented professionals who are capable of examining a situation and recommending effective approaches to development policy and management.

Degree(s):
MPIA - Economic and Social Development;
Ph.D.- Economic and Social Development

Research Areas:
Environmental Management and Policy; International Political Economy

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Phone: 1-412-648-7640
Fax: 1-412-648-7641

Description:
The Master of Public Administration (MPA) program prepares students to assume positions of leadership in public service, whether in the US or abroad. We define public service broadly to include governmental organizations at all levels (national, state, local), private nonprofit organizations (NPOs/NGOs), and for-profit organizations that interact extensively with the public sector. The MPA core curriculum provides students with the essential analytical, administrative, and political skills to work effectively as public service professionals. Students then select from a wide offering of elective courses and specialized areas of study to deepen their analytical and managerial skills. The MPA curriculum reflects many of today's most important developments in the field of public service including: the remarkable growth of the non-profit sector as a major force in public service; increasingly urgent problems of environmental management and policy; management and governance of urban and regional organizations as national governments "devolve" authority and accountability downward; and, effective resource management in an era of fiscal constraints.

Degree(s):
MPA - Master of Public Administration;

Ph.D.- Public Administration

Research Areas:
Management of Nonprofit Organizations; Environmental Management and Policy;Local and Regional Development;Personnel and Labor Relations;Urban and Metropolitan Management and Policy;Administration of Justice

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Phone: 1-412-648-7640
Fax: 1-412-648-7641

Description:
The participation of working professionals has always been an important ingredient in GSPIA's academic culture. The MPPM degree recognizes that individuals who are accomplished professionals have needs that are different from those of the pre-professional, and gives credit for a level of managerial knowledge and administrative skills that less experienced students do not possess. The program has been designed with the needsof busy working professionals in mind. The curriculum is flexible, and can be tailored to individual interests or needs. Special consideration is given to facilitate the advising and registration process for students who work during the day. The MPPM degree consists of ten courses, for a total of 30 credit hours. Four components make up the curriculum: (1) foundation seminar; (2) specialized area of study; (3) elective courses; and (4) policy seminar.

Degree(s):
MPPM - Master of Public Policy and Management (Executive Degree Program)

Research Areas:
Administration of Justice; Management of Nonprofit Organizations; International Security Studies; International Political Economy; Environmental Management and Policy; Personnel and Labor Relations Management; Urban and Metropolitan Management and Policy; Local and Regional Development; Intelligence Analysis; Economic and Social Development

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Phone: 1-412-624-3002

Description:
The emphasis in the training program is placed on statistical methods and their application in the health sciences and on the use of computer technology as a tool for studying and solving problems in the health field. Specialty areas for students are biometry with a focus on application of statistical theory, and methods to the solution of public health problems and public health statistics, a program for students with a prior professional degree or background in health.

Degree(s):
M.P.H.;
M.S.
Dr.P.H.;
Ph.D;

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Phone: 1-412-967-6500
Fax: 1-412-624-1020

Degree(s):
Environmental Health Risk Assessment Certificate M.S - Environmental and Occupational Health with Certificate in Radiation Health;

M.S. - Environmental and Occupational Health;
M.S - Computational Toxicology;
M.S - Environmental and Occupational Health with Certificate in Radiation Health;
M.P.H. - Occupational Medicine;
M.P.H - Risk Assessment;

Ph.D. - Environmental and Occupational Health;
( May specialize in: Molecular Toxicology Track, Computational Toxicology Track);

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Phone: 1-412-624-5200
Fax: 1-412-624-3755

Description:
This program studies the application of scientific method to disease in populations for the purpose of prevention or control. A major goal of training and research is to develop techniques that will effectively reduce mortality and morbidity.

Degree(s):
M.P.H.;

Dr.P.H.;
Ph.D.

Research Areas:
chronic disease; infectious disease;psychiatric epidemiology;alcohol epidemiology;aging epidemiology;environmental epidemiology;molecular epidemiology;nutrition and epidemiology;telecommunications and epidemiology;epidemiology of women's health

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Phone: 1-412-624-3003
Fax: 1-412-624-3755

Description:
This area gives patients and families genetic, biomedical, and psychosocial information to help them make reproductive decisions. Training includes the prognosis, consequences,treatment, risk of recurrence, and prevention of pertinent diseases. Students perform a clinical internship in their second year of the program. This internship integrates the science of human genetics with the social, psychological, moral, and ethical issues of genetic counseling.

Degree(s):
M.S. - Genetic Counseling

Research Areas:
basic genetic;mechanisms of segregation and recomination; family and population studies of normal and disease phenotypes; chromosome structure and chromosomal mechanisms in disease; physical and genetic mapping (genomics); genetic epidemiology with special reference to common diseases; the importance of genes to public health;interaction of genes with the environment; assessment of genetic risk; detection of genetic disease; gene transfer therapy; detection of genetic disease

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Phone: 1-412-624-3003

Description:
The Graduate School of Public Health offers courses of study and research in many areas, including biostatistics, chronic disease epidemiology, community health services, health administration, health policy analysis, human genetics, genetic counseling, environmental and occupational health, environmental and occupational medicine, health promotion and education, infectious disease epidemiology, infectious diseases and microbiology, nutritional epidemiology (for registered dietitians), psychiatric epidemiology, public health social work, and public health statistics. Involvement in such specific research units as the Center for Public Health Practice, the Center for Minority Health Research, Health Policy Institute, the Pittsburgh Genetics Institute, and the Health Services Research Unit is possible.

Degree(s):
Master of Public Health/Certificate in Management of Non-Profit Organizations;
Master of Public Health/Certificate in Public Health and Aging
Master of Public Health;
Master of Health Administration/Master of Business Administration;
Master of Health Promotion and Education;
Master of Public Health/Doctor of Philosophy (Social Work);
Master of Public Health/Certificate in Management of Non-Profit Organizations;
Master of Public Health/Certificate in Public Health and Aging
Doctor of Public Health;
Master of Public Health/Doctor of Philosophy (Social Work);

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Phone: 1-412-624-5200
Fax: 1-412-625-3755

Description:
The curriculum provides an understanding of basic genetic mechanisms affecting human genes, chromosomes, cells, individuals, and populations of organisms in both normal and disease states. Courses address the areas of human population and quantitative genetics, genetic toxicology, biochemical and molecular genetics, and cytogenetics.

Degree(s):
M.S.;

Ph.D.- Human Genetics

Research Areas:
Statistical Genetics; Cytogenics; Genetics of Common Diseases

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Phone: 1-412-624-3331
Fax: 1-412-383-8926

Degree(s):
M.P.H.;

Dr.P.H.;
Ph.D.