CEPH-specified Core Program Competencies
Evidence-based Approaches To Public Health
Public Health & Health Care Systems
Planning & Management To Promote Health
10 Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management
11 Select methods to evaluate public health programs
Policy in Public Health
15 Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity
17 Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges
18 Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors
20 Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content
Interprofessional Practice
21 Perform effectively on interprofessional teams
Systems Thinking
22 Apply systems thinking tools to a public health issue
Concentration Competencies 
Applied Public Health Concentration
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.
Concentration Competencies 
Epidemiology Concentration
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.
EPI 6 Apply the principles of meta-analysis and solve meta-analytic problems using fixed effects and random effects modeling techniques.
Concentration Competencies 
Generalist Concentration (no longer available after Fall 2021)
GEN 1 Analyze the impact of risk and protective factors on health outcomes during the life course.
GEN 2 Discriminate between research questions and hypotheses and derive one from the other.
GEN 3 Develop theory-driven health behavior change messages to impact policy or practice.
GEN 4 Identify and access public or private data sets and assess their relevance in addressing a specific public health research question or evaluation need.
GEN 5 Assess workplace or environmental causes of injury or illness and make recommendations for ways to limit exposures and enhance health.
CEPH Foundational Knowledge Areas
Profession & Science of Public Health
1 Explain public health history, philosophy and values
3 Explain the role of quantitative and qualitative methods and sciences in describing and assessing a population’s health
6 Explain the critical importance of evidence in advancing public health knowledge
Factors Related to Human Health
7 Explain effects of environmental factors on a population’s health
8 Explain biological and genetic factors that affect a population’s health
9 Explain behavioral and psychological factors that affect a population’s health
11 Explain how globalization affects global burdens of disease