which public health schools request interviews for PhD?

[phdroute]

Does anyone know which schools conduct interviews for PhD applicants? I am mostly interested in health policy departments, but hopefully we can get the discussion going in general. Thanks!

[bikefarm]

From my understanding, most schools don't require an interview but it's possible for a professor to set up an informal phone interview to see if you're a good fit with the department and probe on your research interests. That's how it is for the schools I applied to in health behavior/community health sciences departments.

[phdroute]

thanks, bikefarm. i've been trying to see which schools interview from the results page entries last year. I know that Harvard and Yale both have interview stages (similar to med school - interviews are the first cut), and it looks like at least some departments at BU, Hopkins, UW, and Pitt conduct interviews.

Any other info out there? This is probably not helping my obsessive compulsive email/app status checking, but at this point I am just enabling myself is it april yet?

[sam0_o]

I'm not sure how much overlap there would be between environmental health/environmental medecine and health policy departments, but Duke/U Rochester (respectively) do interview.

[sepiasizemore]

Emory conducts interviews for their epidemiology and Behaioral Science and Health Education departments, not sure about the rest of the departments.

[leila44]

For Pub Health, BU, Hopkins and Tulane (Global Systems Dev.) conduct interviews.