Graduates are prepared to assume leadership roles in public health, with particular emphasis on rural, medically underserved, Hispanic, Native American and U.S.-Mexican border health policies and problems. The program encompasses such disciplines as epidemiology, biostatistics, nutrition, health administration and policy, environmental and occupational health, preventive medicine, community health nursing, health education, international health, pharmacy, and women and children's health. Phoenix-area students now take classes in two ways. They learn from instructors based in Phoenix and by real-time teleconferencing. The teleconferencing courses in health administration and policy, behavioral sciences and issues and trends in public health originate in Tucson at the College of Medicine.
Students take the classes in the afternoon, evenings and weekends.
For the nursing portion of the degree, students take already-existing classes at the ASU College of Nursing.