{"id":49779,"date":"2017-12-06T14:37:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T21:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=49779"},"modified":"2017-12-07T16:47:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:47:57","slug":"interdisciplinary-health-doctoral-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/interdisciplinary-health-doctoral-program\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU introduces new Interdisciplinary Health doctoral program"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0College of Social and Behavioral Sciences<\/a> (SBS)\u00a0and the\u00a0College of Health and Human Services<\/a> (HHS) at Northern Arizona University are starting an Interdisciplinary Health (IH) Ph.D. program, with classes beginning in fall 2018. This cross-disciplinary collaborative program is designed to educate and train the next generation of health researchers, advocates and educators with emphasis on health equity, disability and psychosocial health.<\/p>\n

Students\u00a0will\u00a0work with faculty on\u00a0important theoretical and practical issues related to population\u00a0health,\u00a0health care\u00a0and well-being. Graduates will be uniquely qualified to lead interdisciplinary research that\u00a0yields new insights about health.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe benefits of this program are that it combines faculty from multiple disciplines, whose goal is to improve health outcomes in our three areas of focus: psychosocial health, health equity and disabilities,\u201d HHS Dean Lynda Ransdell<\/strong> said. \u201cThe factors that set us apart from other programs are the quality of our faculty\u2014many of whom have significant research funding\u2014the level of research in which students will participate and the opportunity to have a meaningful impact on the lives of others through research and practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

SBS Dean Karen Pugliesi<\/strong> said this program has been in the works for three years, with faculty members from both colleges contributing to its creation. It\u2019s needed, she said, because scientific research is increasingly interdisciplinary and practitioners need to have an understanding far beyond one field of study. It also will open up collaborative research opportunities among faculty members of the two colleges.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis program will prepare students to contribute at the highest levels to the cutting edge of interdisciplinary research or as leaders in public health, health care administration and other areas,\u201d she said. \u201cNAU has a distinctive combination of faculty and research programs that will enable students to pursue innovative research that will advance knowledge, practice and policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Disciplines\u00a0within\u00a0the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences include anthropology,\u00a0applied indigenous studies,\u00a0criminology and criminal justice,\u00a0Family Violence Institute, geography\/planning and recreation, Institute for Human Development,\u00a0politics and international affairs,\u00a0psychological sciences,\u00a0sociology and social work\u00a0as well as others. Disciplines\u00a0within\u00a0the College of Health and Human Services include communication sciences and disorders, dental hygiene, health sciences, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy\/athletic training and physician assistant\u00a0studies.<\/p>\n

The first cohort of students will be admitted for Fall 2018. Find out more about the\u00a0IH Ph.D. program online<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS)\u00a0and the\u00a0College of Health and Human Services (HHS) at Northern Arizona University are starting an Interdisciplinary Health (IH) Ph.D. program, with classes beginning in fall 2018. This cross-disciplinary collaborative program is designed to educate and train the next generation of health researchers, advocates and educators with emphasis on health…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":49780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}