Master of Public Health (MPH)

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The Zilber School of Public Health offers a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree. This professional program provides students with a broad understanding of public health practice with specialty tracks currently available in the areas of environmental and occupational health and community and behavioral health promotion. The MPH degree program prepares students for professional public health practice by building practical knowledge and skills, including the applied use of public health research, and program planning, implementation, and evaluation. Students learn to address complex public health challenges, including environmental health risk reduction, teenage pregnancy prevention, and the promotion of healthy social and physical environments. The program has a specific emphasis on health equity, social and environmental justice, and community partnerships.

The MPH curriculum provides basic and elective courses in Environmental and Occupational Health, Community and Behavioral Health Promotion, Public Health Policy and Administration, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics. Knowledge and skills in these core disciplines in public health helps prepare students to analyze information and consider solutions to public health problems at the community, institutional, and societal levels.  Cross-cutting competencies are separated into seven categories: communications/informatics, diversity/culture, leadership, professionalism, program planning/evaluation, public health biology, and systems thinking. Courses have been designed to fulfill competencies as outlined by the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH).