Weather Alert

EARLY CLOSURE MARCH 4 - Due to the forecast for severe winter weather, Creighton's Omaha campus will close at 7 P.M. this evening. 

All in-person classes, clinics, and events, regardless of start time, are asked to end by 7 P.M. For those needing a shuttle, please visit my.creighton.edu for the most up-to-date maps and schedule. Shuttles will run until 8 P.M. this evening. We encourage you to be mindful of other closures or impacted services across the city as well. 

Employees, including those classified as responsible for “essential operations” should review Creighton's Weather and Emergency-Related Absence Policy and work with your immediate supervisor on expectations for job functions during this curtailment of campus operations. 

Please take proper winter weather precautions throughout the day and contact public safety at 402.280.2911 for any emergencies.

Dhitinut Ratnapradipa, PhD

Program Director, Master of Public Health

Professor

Contact

DTRatnapradipa@creighton.edu
School of Medicine
Public Health MPH (Master's)
Department of Clinical Research and Public Health
Family and Community Medicine
HLSB - Hixson Lied Science Building

Dhitinut Ratnapradipa, PhD

Program Director, Master of Public Health

Professor

Dr. Dhitinut (DT) Ratnapradipa is Professor in the Public Health Program at Creighton University. Prior to his appointment at Creighton, he was a tenured professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX and at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL, where he served as the graduate director and MD/MPH Co-Director of the concurrent degree program with the SIU School of Medicine. Dr. Ratnapradipa was also clinical faculty at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and was adjunct faculty in the Department of Public Health Sciences, New Mexico State University, La Cruses, NM. Prior to academia, he, supervised the Health Promotion and Emerging Risks Program at the Rhode Island Department of Health.

Dr. Ratnapradipa’s research interest is environmental health promotion using risk communication and organizational behavior approaches. His current study is on environmental health risk perceptions among residents living in flood plains, funded by Creighton’s Health Science Strategic Investment Funds.  He has served on NIH and US EPA grant review panels, and has secured grants from the US EPA, CDC, HRSA and the states of Illinois. He completed fellowships with the Northeast Public Health Leadership Institute, the CDC/ATSDR Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute, the National Environmental Health Association/UL Ambassador Exchange, the ASTHO Environmental Public Health Peer-to-Peer Tracking Program, and the Visiting Partners Program in Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety at the University of Michigan Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering.

Dr. Ratnapradipa served on the Board of Directors for the Alliance for Healthy Homes. His professional contributions have been recognized by several organizations including National Environmental Health Association and the Society for Public Health Education. He is a technical editor for the Journal of Environmental Health and Associate Editor for Journal of International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research and Health Behavior and Policy Reviews.

Department

Clinical Research and Public Health

Position

Professor

Publications

  • Health behavior and policy review
    Hotalling Danielle, McGaha Amy, Boes Kevin, Piotrowski Megan, Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Taylor Jack, Guetterman Timothy, Analyzing Flood Risk Behaviors and Preparation in the Midwest Using the Health Belief Model 2025
  • FP essentials (Online)
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Environment and Health: Water and Soil Contamination
    545, p. 19 2024
  • FP essentials (Online)
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Environment and Health: Heavy Metal Toxicity
    545, p. 13 2024
  • FP essentials (Online)
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Environment and Health: Poisoning Management
    545, p. 7 2024
  • Journal of emergency management (Weston, Mass.)
    Boes Kevin, Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Guetterman Timothy C., Developing a survey instrument to assess flood health beliefs among residents of river flood zones in the Heartland
    20:4, p. 333 - 345 2023
  • Journal of environmental health
    Cardinal Christine, Scarbrough Amanda, Robins Anthony, Boes Kevin, Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Extreme Winter Storms
    84:7, p. 12 - 19 2022
  • American Journal of Health Studies
    Abrams Thereasa, Becker Jennifer, Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Ross Amanda, Neumeister Michael, Recurring Themes of Network Support Exhibited by Adult Burn Survivors: A Qualitative Investigation
    31:1, p. 10 - Jan 2021
  • Journal of Cancer Education
    Ratnapradipa Kendra L., Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Xie Yue, Factors Associated with Having Ever Considered a Cancer Research Career
    36:3, p. 630 - 638 2021
  • Journal of Emergency Management
    Cardinal Christine, Davis Patrick, Scarbrough Amanda, Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Martinez Jesus, Communication strategies to facilitate emergency preparedness for Generation Z and college food pantries
    19:7, p. 99 - 107 2021
  • American journal of health studies
    Wilken Peggy, Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Presely Dennis, Wodika Alicia, An Evaluation of the Non-Emergency Medical Transportation System of Rural Southern Illinois
    29:2 2020
  • American journal of health studies
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, McDaniel Justin, Climatic Exposure Risk Associated With Skin Cancer
    30:1 2020
  • Health Behavior and Policy Review
    Xie Yue, Newman Ray G., Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, How extensively are tobacco use policies implemented at behavioral health and substance treatment facilities? A pilot investigation
    7:5, p. 440 - 451 2020
  • Health Behavior and Policy Review
    Cardinal Christine, Ratnapradipa Kendra, Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Griffith Seth, College students’ perceptions of vaping and vaping policy
    7:5, p. 397 - 406 2020
  • Health Educator
    Scarbrough Amanda W, Xie Yue, Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Experiential Learning Using Graphic Information System to Promote Healthy College Eating Habits
    51:1, p. 19 2019
  • Health behavior and policy review
    Cardinal Christine, Scarbrough Amanda, Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Health Policy Considerations in Texas Measles Outbreaks Past and Present
    6:5, p. 472 - 479 2019
  • Social Work in Health Care
    Abrams Thereasa E., Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Tillewein Heather, Lloyd Alison A., Resiliency in burn recovery
    57:9, p. 774 - 793 2018
  • Journal of environmental health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Cardinal Christine, Ratnapradipa Kendra L., Scarbrough Amanda, Xie Yue, Implications of hurricane harvey on environmental public health in Harris County, Texas
    81:2, p. 24 - 32 2018
  • Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, McDaniel Justin Tyler, Barger Alexandra, Social vulnerability and Lyme disease incidence
    14:2 2017
  • Journal of environmental health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Brown Stephen L., Preihs Kristin, Middleton Wendi K., Wodika Alicia B., What does the public know about environmental health? A qualitative approach to refining an environmental health awareness instrument
    77:8, p. 22 - 28 2015
  • Journal of environmental health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, 2012 NEHA/UL sabbatical report
    76:8, p. 28 - 33 2014
  • Journal of environmental health
    King Ewa, Shih Grace, Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Quilliam Daniela N., Morton John, Magee Susanna R., Mercury, lead, and cadmium in umbilical cord blood
    75:6, p. 38 - 43 2013
  • Journal of environmental health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Conder James, Ruffing Ami, White Victor, The 2011 Japanese earthquake
    74:6, p. 42 - 50 2012
  • American Journal of Health Education
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Ritzel Dale O., Haseeb Abdul, Dundulis William P., The role of health education in addressing uncertainty about health and cell phone use—a commentary
    43:1, p. 5 - 7 2012
  • Health Educator
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Brown Stephen L, Middleton Wendi K, Wodika Alicia B, Measuring Environmental Health Perception among College Students
    43:2, p. 13 2011
  • American Journal of Health Education
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Brown Stephen L., Wodika Alicia B., Examining the breadth and depth of environmental health through a modified delphi technique
    42:1, p. 50 - 57 2011
  • American Journal of Health Education
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Ritzel Dale O., Haramis Linn D., Bliss Kadi R., Bed bug epidemic
    42:4, p. 245 - 251 2011
  • Journal of environmental health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Quilliam Daniela, Wier Lauren, Rhodes Darson L., Food safety education
    73:6, p. 70 - 75 2011
  • Health Educator
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Rhodes Darson L, An Introductory Lesson to Environmental Health: Media Analysis and Risk Reduction
    42:1, p. 12 2010
  • Applied Environmental Education and Communication
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Panzara Anthony D., Esposito Valerie, Wodika Alicia B., Getz Thomas D., Zarcadoolas Christina, Quilliam Daniela N., Caron Colleen, Migliore Beverly, Environmental health risk communication
    9:4, p. 251 - 261 2010
  • Journal of environmental health
    Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Quilliam Daniela, Wier Lauren M., Migliore Beverly, Dundulis William, Assessing consumer awareness about mercury in fish
    72:5, p. 16 - 21 2009
  • Medicine and health, Rhode Island
    Magee Susanna R., King Ewa, Shih Grace, Ratnapradipa Dhitinut, Quilliam Daniela, Morton John, Biomonitoring in Rhode Island.
    91:3, p. 88 - 90 2008