Prospective Students

Careers In Community and Behavioral Health

With a master's degree, you could:

Develop an outreach program in an urban community that reduces the incidence of diabetes
Collaborate with a rural community to locate funding for a walking trail that will improve physical activity levels
Generate a new menu and eating incentives at an industrial work site that improve the nutrition habits of workers
Train inmates in the prison system as peer educators, so that they can educate peers about prevention and treatment of STDs
Implement programs in a developing country that improve the safety of female refugees and their children
Organize a media campaign that reduces teen tobacco use
Build a collaboration of lobbyists that secures funding for a new family violence prevention program
Coordinate with local substance abuse treatment providers to ensure the adoption of empirically supported treatment and prevention methods
Evaluate existing public health programs, to recommend improvements and verify effectiveness.

With a doctoral degree, you could:

Conduct research on the effectiveness of various community based intervention trials
Write research grants, articles and books
Develop new theories
Consult on research or evaluation projects
Mentor new scientists as a professor at a research university

Below is a listing of sample positions that graduates of our master's and doctoral programs would be qualified for. Positions similar to these have been advertised in the past two years on the American Public Health Association's Career Mart and have been offered to CBH graduates.

Master's Level Sample Positions

Estimated starting salary range $30,000–$40,000

Public Health Educator II in a state health department
Research Program Manager at a state partnership against tobacco
Coordinator of Health Promotion Programs at a private college
Health Education Materials Developer at an education and research company
Health Program Coordinator at a kidney disease foundation
Research Assistant at a research university
Prevention Specialist at a national public health agency
Health Educator at an HMO
Program Coordinator II for a state-wide prevention program
Program Manager at a nonprofit community-based women's health care organization

Doctoral Level Sample Positions

Estimated salary starting range $45,000–$60,000

Postdoctoral Research Scientist at a research university
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at a research university
Research Scientist within a mental health institute at a research university

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