Sample Projects

Below are titles of master's projects by students in the Executive Program.

• Assessment of Public Health in Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota
• Primary health care program for elderly in developing countries: Mexico, a case study
• Predictive Factors Influencing Adverse Events of all In-Patients, Observation Patients, and Swing Bed Patients from July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2005 in a 25 Bed Critical Access Hospital
• Occupational Health Issues in Pork Production Workers
• An Outbreak of Pontiac Fever with Respiratory Distress in Sugar Beet Processing Plant Workers Performing High-Pressure Cleaning
• Does broad-based vaccination with FluMist within elementary schools lead to a reduction in absenteeism and work time lost by parents?
• Evaluation of Easy Culture as a Tool for Improving Prudent and Judicious Use of Antibiotics
• WNV in North Dakota
• Rural Native American and Caucasian Youth's Perceptions of Tobacco Prevention Advertisement Strategies
• Salmonella Contamination of Ground Turkey Necks: Establishing a Protocol to Identify Key Vectors (Environmental) from the Hatchery to Processing
• Factors Affecting Operating Margins of Critical Access Designated Hospitals in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa
• Evaluating/Developing Veterinary Competencies for Emergency Preparedness
• Comparison of Salmonella prevalence on poultry carcasses from birds administered 3-nitro-r-hydroxybenzenearsonic acid in feed with birds not administered 3-nitro-r-hydroxybenzenearsonic acid in feed.
• Increasing Physician Retention in Community Health Centers by Improving Management Systems
• Xylitol: A Promising Primary Prevention Strategy to Decrease Early Childhood Caries
• Inter-sector Cooperation in Health Care Delivery in South Mississippi: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
• Leprosporosis: A Case Series Examination of 420 Small Animal Hospitals Throughout the U.S. from 2002-2004
• A critique of the evidence of the public health impact of fluoroquinolone resistant  campylobacter attributable to poultry
• Evaluation of the Johne’s disease demonstration herd program in Minnesota for the potential control of mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis infections in dairy cattle and humans