This required course serves as an opportunity to demonstrate, apply, and integrate required field-based public health competencies.  Further, this seminar aims to bolster each student's leadership capacity while reinforcing the skills to participate in transdisciplinary research and effective public health practice.  Class readings and discussion will reinforce student understanding of the ecological factors that contribute to public health through examination of biological, genetic, behavioral (individual), interpersonal/social community, organizational and environmental factors that affect the outcomes of public health cases while field-based service learning experiences will enable application of these concepts within our community.