The PhD program in global health draws on the premise that sustainable and satisfying solutions to the most pressing global health challenges require a sophisticated understanding of how cultural context, social and ecological processes, and disease are really related.<br><br>The transdisciplinary graduate program trains students broadly in cutting-edge health social science research theory and methods. The program leverages the strength of ASU's medical anthropology programming and 15 medical anthropologists, and it has the advantage of tapping a much wider set of skills offered by those in such fields as medical sociology, demography, human geography and epidemiology. It is designed to train those who anticipate working in transdisciplinary academic settings, medical schools or nonacademic health settings such as the commercial sector, government agencies or nongovernmental organizations.<br><br>The concentration in evolutionary global health sciences requires training in universal principles of research design, from experiments to systematic qualitative and quantitative description, data analyses, quantitative and qualitative methods, and anthropological interpretation, or the identification of determinants of the origins and distribution of health phenotypes in past and present human populations. Students choose from a wide range of data collection and inferential tools in order to address specific questions, through a combination of lecture and guided reading courses designed to master the highly diverse literature in evolutionary global health sciences that best pertains to their career goals.