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DOCTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Doctor of Public Health mean?
• DOCTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH (noun)
The noun DOCTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH has 1 sense:
1. a doctor's degree in preventive medicine
Familiarity information: DOCTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DOCTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A doctor's degree in preventive medicine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Doctor of Public Health; DPH
Hypernyms ("Doctor of Public Health" is a kind of...):
doctor's degree; doctorate (one of the highest earned academic degrees conferred by a university)
Context examples
Doctor of Public Health is an academic degree in public health.
(Doctor of Public Health, NCI Thesaurus)
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