Kansas State University

Emphasis in Public Health Nutrition

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The curriculum prepares professionals to apply nutrition principles in evidence-based interventions to promote healthful eating in populations, and to focus on interactions between nutrition and health. Curriculum topics include: nutritional epidemiology; obesity prevention; and intervention strategies for impacting health through nutrition.

Note: All students admitted Fall 2012 and beyond MUST follow the course list below.

“Core” requirements (14 or 16 credit hours)
Each student in the MPH Program must complete these required public health core courses:

• Biostatistics: MPH 701 Fundamental Methods of Biostatistics (3 hrs)
• Environmental health sciences: MPH 806 Environmental Toxicology (2 hrs)
• Epidemiology: 2 options:
• MPH 754 Introduction to Epidemiology (3 hrs) OR
• MPH 708 Veterinary Epidemiology (2 hrs) and MPH 854 Intermediate Epidemiology (3 hrs) (TOTAL of 5 credit hours)
• Health services administration:MPH 720 Administration of Health Care Organizations (3 hrs)
• Social and behavioral sciences: MPH 818 Social and Behavioral Bases of Public Health (3 hrs)

Required Courses and Credit Hours Needed
Required Courses: 10 hours
HN 600	Public Health Nutrition (3 hrs) (may substitute if already taken)
HN 844	Nutritional Epidemiology (3 hrs)
HN 820	Functional Foods for Chronic Disease Prevention (3 hrs) (even years)
HN 880	Graduate Seminar in Human Nutrition (1 hr)
Choose 2-3 Courses: 5-8 hours
HN 620	Nutrient Metabolism (3 hrs)
HN 631	Clinical Nutrition I (2 hrs)
HN 632	Clinical Nutrition II (3 hrs)
HN 635	Nutrition and Exercise (3 hrs)
HN 718	Physical Health and Aging (3 hrs) (alternate odd years)
HN 726	Nutrition and Wellness (3 hrs) (Great Plains Program)
HN 735	Advanced Energy Balance (3 hrs)
HN 780	Problems in Human Nutrition (1-6 hrs)
HN 782	Topics in Human Nutrition (3 hrs)
HN 800	Nutrition Education and Communication (3 hrs)
HN 810	Advanced Macronutrient Metabolism (5 hrs)
HN 812	Advanced Micronutrient Metabolism (3 hrs)
HN 841	Consumer Response Evaluation (3 hrs)
HN 862	Maternal and Child Nutrition (3 hrs) (Great Plains Program)
Choose 2-3 Courses: 4-6 hours
MC 750	Strategic Health Communication (alternate years)
MC 760	Communication and Risk (alternate years)
PSYCH 518	Introduction to Health Psychology
SOCIO 541	Wealth, Power and Privilege
SOCIO 570	Race and Ethnic Relations in the USA
STAT 704	Analysis of Variance (2 hrs)
STAT 705	Regression and Correlation Analysis (2 hrs)
STAT 710	Sample Survey Methods (2 hrs)
STAT 713	Applied Linear Stat Methods (2 hrs)
STAT 716	Non-parametric Statistics (2 hrs)
STAT 717	Categorical Data Analysis (3 hrs)
STAT 720	Design Experiments (3 hrs)
STAT 725	Intro to SAS Computing (1 hr)
STAT 730	Multivariate Statistics Methods (3 hrs)

Capstone/culminating experience (6 credit hours)
Total hrs required for MPH Degree (42 hours)

All students admitted BEFORE Fall 2012 may follow the old requirements  or the new requirements (above).