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Submission Number: 441
Submission ID: 441
Submission UUID: b0601639-8904-4ae3-a0a1-91a224866d57
Submission URI: /publishedsurvey

Created: Thu, 12/05/2024 - 16:58
Completed: Fri, 05/16/2025 - 12:03
Changed: Fri, 05/16/2025 - 12:49

Remote IP address: 70.238.181.51
Submitted by: Anonymous
Language: English

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Submitted to: Published Survey

Contact Information

1060 Dragon Road
Oakwood
Virginia
24631
United States
Distance Pathway/Online
Yes

Program Application Deadline

August 15, 2025
Yes
No
$0
Students may enter the DrPH program in the Fall, Spring or Summer Term. See website for specific application deadlines.
Yes

Program Description

Appalachian College of Pharmacy’s online Interprofessional Doctorate in Public Health Leadership (DrPH) degree expands the practitioner’s frame of reference beyond the individual patient to the larger population, engaging the community itself in actions that facilitate disease prevention, health promotion, and health protection.

This degree prepares 21st-century leaders for high-level public health and healthcare roles who can work collaboratively to investigate and solve problems facing the public’s health.

Graduates will learn to identify and leverage public and private resources for programs and policies that create effective and sustained community-based solutions for community problems and will gain expertise in the following:

Community capacity-building
Organizational direction
Population risk assessment
Community-based intervention
Program evaluation
Coalition building

Appalachian College of Pharmacy (ACP) offers a sequence of online courses designed to lead to a Interprofessional Doctorate in Public Health Leadership (DrPH) degree. Requirements for the DrPH degree consists of 46 semester credit hours spanning four academic terms and including foundational, specialized, and elective courses, as well as experiential courses in research, writing, and applied practice. All courses are offered in distance education format with some courses requiring clinic or community work.
Yes

Institution Information

Private
Yes
Fall, Spring, Summer
Yes

Degree Requirements

46
Research, Clinical
Not Required
Not Required
Not Required
Not Required
Yes

Degree Information

Distance Pathway/Online
  • Preventive & Integrative Care
  • Rural Health
  • Global Health
Public Health
Yes

Program Statistics

Yes
5
Last academic year-country of origin of the accepted students:
5
0
Yes
Last academic year-graduates job placement:
2
2
Yes

GRE and Other Tests

No
None
Yes

Letters of Recommendation

Yes
2
Appalachian College of Pharmacy requires two letters of recommendation. We encourage references from professors or teachers (or teaching assistants) or work/research supervisors who have worked directly and closely with you and who can speak about you with specificity.
Yes

Other Admission Requirements

To be eligible for admission to the Interprofessional Doctorate in Public Health Leadership (DrPH) program, applicants must meet one of the following criteria:

Current enrollment in an approved and accredited U.S. health professions doctorate program (e.g., DO, DDS, DPT, MD, PharmD); or
Health professions doctorate (e.g., DO, DDS, DPT, MD, PharmD) from a regionally or nationally accredited institution earned within the past 25 years; or
Master of Public Health (MPH) degree or equivalent degree from a regionally or nationally accredited U.S. institution.

Transfer credits may be accepted from previous health professions coursework and or experience. If the coursework is deemed adequate and appropriate by the Admissions Committee, advanced standing may be awarded in accordance with policy.
Yes

Financial Support

0
None
N/A
Yes

Background Checks and Drug Screenings

No
No
Yes