Health promotion & behavioral sciences

Identifying and evaluating the factors that affect health, and investigating the most successful means of intervention.

Building healthier communities

健康促进和行为的部门Sciences prepares students to work alongside communities to develop, implement and evaluate successful interventions.

Students join our department because they believe that making healthy life choices attainable and appealing is the most effective way to prevent disease and injury. Many times this means combining evidence-informed theories that address public health challenges with the goals and values of the community to create better intervention outcomes. Our faculty literally wrote the book on developing successful interventions, a seminal work that’s used in public health classrooms around the nation. Their expertise not only helps our students build valuable skill sets, such as how to undertake a needs assessment or evaluate a project’s effectiveness but also encourages them to address their own biases and assumptions to achieve better, more sustainable health programs.

“As a graduate student in our department, you will have an opportunity to broaden your knowledge and skills in the development, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based interventions to promote healthy behaviors. Faculty members in the department come from diverse academic backgrounds including anthropology, clinical and social psychology, sociology, social and behavioral epidemiology, dietetics, and qualitative and quantitative methodology.

毕业后，您将找到机会利用您的教育来影响各种环境中的公共卫生，包括政府机构，例如州或地方卫生部门，国家机构和组织，例如疾病控制和预防中心卫生研究院，私营部门组织，例如美国癌症协会，医疗保健环境和学术机构等。我们期待帮助您实现自己的职业目标。”

Dr. Christine Markham
临时部门主席

健康促进和健康教育

Inspiring and empowering others to make change.

健康促进和健康教育领域强调，使人们能够更好地控制自己的健康命运。我们的学生和教职员工并没有将自己视为变革代理，而是帮助社区获得所需的东西，以帮助自己和周围的人过上更健康的生活。健康促进不仅仅是提供资源和教育，还可以评估系统和环境，以及可能影响人口健康的看法和态度。通过确定干预点，我们的研究可以使用少量的“午睡”或人群中的调整，从而导致巨大的变化和影beplay苹果手机能用吗响。

行为科学

Uncovering the motivations and factors that influence health.

行为科学考虑了所有可能影响一个人健康的行为和选择的可能的事情。我们的学生定期为科学文献做出贡献，并学会发展和实施最先进的社会和行为科学理论，设计和分析方法。了解健康的选择和后果背后的模式提供了证据和基础，这些证据和基础可以使计划和干预措施成为成功的最佳机会。

Health promotion and behavioral sciences research

We offer a supportive and thriving research culture, including many grant-funded projects and high-profile collaborations with other health and community organizations. Our department is also affiliated with the健康促进与预防研究中心beplay苹果手机能用吗and the迈克尔和苏珊·戴尔健康生活中心这两者都为领导和丰富的经验提供了更多的机会。

Our research interests and efforts include:

Adolescent vaccination
艾滋病毒和性传播感染（STI）预防
Promotion of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination to prevent a number of cancers
Prevention and cessation of smoking/vaping or tobacco use
Community involvement in cancer treatment and other health conditions
健康资源可访问性
Birth control advocacy and pregnancy prevention
Effective sexual health education
Cancer screening promotion for evidence-based tests
营养和健康饮食
Dental hygiene and healthy habits for children
Integrating school and family efforts for children’s health
Maternal health and workforce needs
婴儿健康
儿童肥胖
Chronic disease management

Degree programs

健康促进和行为的部门Sciences offers the following degrees:

Master of Public Health (MPH)

Certificates offered

健康促进和行为的部门Sciences offers the following certificates:

For non-degree seeking students

对于寻求学位的学生

Contact us

Claire Strickland Lawrence
Academic and Admissions Advisor
713-500-9985
claire.strickland@uth.tmc.edu

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