Doctor of Philosophy in Mental Health - Violence

The PhD degree is a research-oriented doctoral degree. In the first two years, students take core courses in the Departments of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology, in research ethics, and attend weekly department seminars. Students must complete a written comprehensive exam (in January of their second year), a preliminary exam, two presentations and a final dissertation including presentation and defense. Throughout their time in the department, we encourage all doctoral students to participate in at least one research group of the major research programs in the department: Substance Use Epidemiology, Global Mental Health, Mental Health and Aging, Mental Health Services and Policy, Methods, Prevention Research, Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetic Epidemiology, Psychiatric Epidemiology, and Autism and Developmental Disabilities.
Interpersonal violence and suicide are among the most severe and preventable forms of violence in the United States and globally. A public health framework for violence prevention highlights the need to engage multiple sectors - public health, social services, housing, economic development, education, and criminal justice to address systemic determinants of violence. A public health framework for violence prevention also works to mobilize our nation's health care and public health systems by working with communities. An evidence-based public health response applies data surveillance, data linkage and advanced methods to identify social, structural, and community conditions under which interventions and policies can be most effective.

All programs require the equivalent of a four-year U.S. bachelor's degree. All supporting documents (letters of recommendation, transcripts and/or credential evaluations, letters or recommendation, and test scores) must be official. Official documents are sent directly from one organizational authority to another. Documents and letters of recommendation that have been in the possession of the applicant or another person are not official. The Bloomberg School requires official academic records, transcripts, or mark sheets from ALL colleges, universities, graduate, or professional schools attended. Even if grades and credits from one institution appear on your home institution’s transcript, we require the transcript from the school where the credits originated. IELTS - 7, TOEFL IBT- 100, PBT- 600, PTE Academic - 68