Obesity Program

• Requirements
• Completing the concentration
• Competencies
• Courses

Prospective students interested in the Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention Concentration should indicate their interest in their application to HSPH. The concentration will be restricted to doctoral and two-year master’s students in the Epidemiology, Nutrition, and Society, Human Development, & Health. It is difficult to fulfill the requirements of the concentration in one year.

Students are responsible for fulfilling the masters or doctoral degree requirements of their respective departments, in addition to the requirements of the concentration. The students in the concentration are required to take three required core courses on an ordinal grading scale (7.5 credits total), in addition to research methods and biostatistics requirements of their respective departments.

Requirements for Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention Concentration

Process for documenting completion of the concentration

Upon completion of the program requirements, students are required to fill out the corresponding form (see the For Students tab). In return, the curriculum committee will provide the students with a letter recognizing the completion of requirements for the concentration, upon successful verification from the registrar's office. The co-Chairs will review any requests for exceptions and make recommendations if necessary to accept or deny exceptions. Criteria will be developed to help in granting requested exceptions.  

Competencies

The students in the Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention concentration should fulfill their department/program competencies. In addition, they need to fulfill the competencies specifically required for the Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention concentration (see below for Competency Development Grid).