1. Apply epidemiological methods to settings and situations in public health practice 
2. Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context 
3. Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming, and software, as appropriate
4. Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy, or practice

1. Compare the organization, structure, and function of health care, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings 
2. Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and systemic levels

1. Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities’ health 
2. Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design, implementation, or critique of public health policies or programs 
3. Design a population-based policy, program, project, or intervention 
4. Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management
5. Select methods to evaluate public health programs

1. Discuss the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence 
2. Propose strategies to identify relevant communities and individuals and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes 
3. Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations
4. Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity

1. Apply leadership and/or management principles to address a relevant issue
2. Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges

1. Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors 
2. Communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation to a non-academic, non-peer audience with attention to factors such as literacy and health literacy 
3. Describe the importance of cultural humility in communicating public health content

1. 1. Integrate perspectives from other sectors and/or professions to promote and advance population health

1. Apply systems thinking tools to visually represent a public health issue in a format other than standard narrative

APH 1
Compare and contrast the functional roles of federal, state and local public health agencies in terms of mandated activities, recommendations, and funding provision.

APH 2
Adopt the role of the Public Health 3.0 “Chief Health Strategist” to write a plan for engaging and defining the roles of multiple cross-sector collaborators to address a specific public health need.

APH 3
Using population health data and results from community needs assessments, write a health problem statement for a specific community health problem.

APH 4
Develop a public health program implementation plan, including program goals & objectives, work plans, budgets, and timelines.

APH 5
Develop a written plan to apply processes that integrate transdisciplinary perspectives, contributions, and collaborations to address health disparities.

EPI 1
Transform data by creating variables, merging data sets, and using arrays.

EPI 2
Apply weighting and other complex sampling designs when analyzing survey data.

EPI 3
Using a specified research reporting format, discuss statistical model development assumptions, including interpretations, diagnostics, and reporting, focusing on implementing logistic regression analysis modeling to epidemiological data.

EPI 4
Develop and explore research questions and hypotheses.

EPI 5
Discuss the selection and use of appropriate epidemiological methods including measures of disease occurrence; adjustment methods based on stratification; and evaluation of bias.

CHE 1
Apply epidemiologic theories of cancer causation and theories of bias in epidemiologic research to explain distributions of cancer disparities.

CHE 2
Develop novel epidemiological research questions to address cancer disparities.

CHE 3
Delineate issues in the design, conduct, and analysis of cancer prevention and control studies and critically evaluate original research in this area.

CHE 4
Design and refine an intervention for primary or secondary cancer prevention through a health equity lens.

CHE 5
Apply the cancer and translational research continuum to community engaged cancer disparities programming.

CHE 6
Design and develop a written comprehensive community engaged research action plan tailored to address a specific cancer disparity within a selected community, applying at least two specific community engaged strategies using a multi-level approach.

1. Explain public health history, philosophy, and values 
2. Identify the core functions of public health and the 10 Essential Services
3. Explain the role of quantitative and qualitative methods and sciences in describing and assessing a population’s health 
4. List major causes and trends of morbidity and mortality in the U.S. or other community relevant to the school or program, with attention to disparities among populations, e.g., socioeconomic, ethnic, gender, racial, etc.
5. Discuss the science of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention in population health, including health promotion, screening, etc. 
6. Explain the critical importance of evidence in advancing public health knowledge 

1. Explain effects of environmental factors on a population’s health 
2. Explain biological and genetic factors that affect a population’s health 
3. Explain behavioral and psychological factors that affect a population’s health 
4. Explain the cultural, social, political, and economic determinants of health and how the determinants relate to population health and health inequities 
5. Explain how globalization affects global burdens of disease 
6. Explain an ecological perspective on the connections among human health, animal health, and ecosystem health (e.g., One Health)