Any Mailman School faculty member with a professorial or associate professorial title (unmodified and modified) is automatically eligible to sponsor DrPH dissertations. The department chair or the director of doctoral studies¹ may nominate other Mailman faculty including individuals with adjunct appointments. A nomination letter and CV are submitted for approval to the Academic Dean of Mailman School of Public Health.

¹“department chair or the director of doctoral studies” is used as a generic phrase throughout that refers to authority and decision making vested at the departmental level. The precise title of faculty member responsible for the direction of the doctoral program and the process for internal decision making are left to the discretion of each department