Our curriculum has several goals:

1. To provide Scholars in the program with both a common core of knowledge and perspectives on population health, and individualized training and mentoring to maximize their scientific and professional competence as interdisciplinary scholars of population health;
2. To provide context and mechanisms that will bring the Scholars into contact with the broader community of researchers and practitioners in population health at the University of Michigan and in broader local, state and national networks; and
3. To create contexts and mechanisms which will diffuse training in population health to the broader University community.

We expect that Scholars will enter the Program with substantial experience and expertise in one of the broad foundation areas of the program, i.e. social determinants of population health, biomedical determinants, and utilization/translation of knowledge into practice and policy. The program will seek to deepen the expertise they come in with but also to broaden it to one of the other foundation areas.

To accomplish all of these goals, our curriculum will have five components:

1. A one semester course in Foundations of Population Health
2. An ongoing Research Seminar in Population Health
3. An ongoing Seminar on Research Methods on Population Health
4. Health & Society Faculty/Scholars Seminar
5. A Scholars Tutorial
6. Occasional special seminars and workshops tailored to scholars' needs and the individualized curricula of additional training experiences each will pursue