Doctor of Philosophy in Health Sciences

Health Sciences is a rapidly changing and evolving discipline, requiring highly trained, critical thinkers to solve some of society’s most important health-related problems. The Ph.D. in Health Sciences provides you with hands-on basic, applied, and translational courses, together with research laboratory or field experiences, needed to solve these problems.Health Sciences is a rapidly changing and evolving discipline, requiring highly trained, critical thinkers to solve some of society’s most important health-related problems. By working with faculty from multiple departmentsprograms in the College of Health Sciences, the Ph.D. in Health Sciences will provide students with hands on basic, applied and translational courses together with research laboratory or field experiences needed to solve these health-related problems.The Ph.D. program in Health Sciences is organized into graduate specialization groups that include Communicative Disorders (CMD) Human Development and Family Science (HDF), Kinesiology (KIN), Nutrition (NUT) and Physical Therapy (PT). These graduate specialization groups are described in more detail below, along with the admissions and degree requirements for Ph.D. students in Health Sciences.SpecializationsCommunicative DisordersHuman Development and Family StudiesKinesiologyNutrition and Food SciencesPhysical TherapyEntry TermFallSpring