Program Resources

Ph.D. Handbook

We encourage all our students to familiarize themselves with our program’s handbook.

The 2025–26 Ph.D. in Public Health Handbook provides students with an overview of program expectations, requirements, and university policies. It covers admissions criteria, credit and tuition policies, assistantship guidelines, and coursework responsibilities, along with details on transfer credits, continuous registration, and annual progress reviews. The handbook explains the major milestones of the program, including developing a plan of study, completing the General Examination, advancing a dissertation prospectus, and successfully defending the dissertation. It also highlights university-wide policies such as student conduct, scholarly integrity, FERPA rights, and required trainings, while pointing to available resources and supports. Finally, it outlines a suggested timeline for completion and clarifies the roles of advisors, committees, and review processes throughout the program.

Download the Handbook

Learning Resources

Free eBooks
UConn Storrs provides a license to O’Reilly Online Learning Resource at: https://software.uconn.edu/support/ that includes over 35,000 eBooks, plus videos. Students with a NetID can access specific books (and within a specific book, once selected, print sections and even download with app for offline use).

Software
SAS & SPSS, along with other software, are available at no charge from UConn Storrs through a virtual environment providing two different ways to access software remotely from anywhere, at any time on your PC, Mac or iPad. With AnyWare Desktop (formerly called SkyBox), you can connect to a virtual desktop running Windows 10 with all the available software. With AnyWare Apps, you select only the application you wish to use. AnyWare Desktop and Apps are accessed using your NetID at https://software.uconn.edu/uconn-software-online/. Every person, with a NetID, also has available to them a P drive, which is a 50G max UConn mapped secure drive.

Currently SAS, SPSS and other software are available for free student download to personal PC devices at http://software.uconn.edu/software/. Microsoft Office is also available at no cost to students at https://software.uconn.edu/microsoft-products-students/.

Don’t Know Your NetID?
If you don’t know your NetID or have never used (or activated) it, visit: https://netid.uconn.edu/.