Master of Public Health (M.P.H.)

Lead Faculty: Dr. Gina Piane

The Master of Public Health (MPH) is a graduate professional degree designed to prepare students for leadership positions in health promotion and disease prevention.  Public Health involves multidisciplinary and collaborative strategies for solving health-related problems, including programs that serve the public sector at all levels -- local, state, federal, and global.  Faculty members have expertise and experience in public health promotion.

The MPH program emphasizes the application of broad-based, state-of-the-art quantitative and qualitative skills needed for problem-solving.  Special attention is given to enhancement of communication skills needed to work with diverse populations.  Ideal candidates for the MPH program are those students looking for a career with the public health sector; and those looking for a career transition into public health from other health professions.  Graduates will enhance their opportunities for professional growth and job placement through carefully planned internships and a multidisciplinary team-based capstone experience. 

Program Learning Outcomes

In accordance with the competency guidelines established by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC) and the Council on Education in Public Health (CEPH), the Master of Public Health program prepares graduate to:

• Analyze and interpret health data.
• Describe the distribution and determinants of disease, disabilities and deaths in human populations.
• Evaluate the environmental factors that affect the health of a community.
• Analyze the planning, organization, administration and policies of health care organizations.
• Apply the concepts and methods of social and behavioral science relevant to the identification and solution of public health problems.

Concentration in Health Promotion

• Assess individual and community needs for health education.
• Plan health education strategies, interventions, and programs.
• Implement health education strategies, interventions, and programs.
• Conduct evaluation related to health education.
• Administer health education strategies and interventions.
• Serve as a health education resource person.
• Communicate and advocate for health and health education.
• Apply appropriate research principles and techniques in health education.
• Administer health education programs.
• Advance the profession of health education.

Requirements

Degree Requirements (16 courses, 72 quarter units)
To receive an MPH degree, students must complete at least 72 quarter units of graduate work. A total of 13.5 quarter units of graduate credit may be granted for equivalent graduate work completed at another institution, as it applies to this degree and provided the units were not used in earning another advanced degree. Refer to the section on graduate admission requirements for specific information regarding application and evaluation.

Core Requirements (16 courses, 72 quarter units)

Unit 1: Public Health Foundations
HCA 600 - U.S. Health Care System
COH 601 - Global Public Health
COH 602 - Biostatistics
COH 603 - Public Health Biology

Unit 2: Public Health Theory
COH 604 - Theories of Health Behavior
COH 605 - Public Health Promotion (Prerequisite: COH 604)
COH 606 - Epidemiology (Prerequisite: COH 602)
COH 607 - Public Health Program Development
  (Prerequisite: COH 605 and 606)
COH 608 - Public Health and the Environment (Prerequisite: COH 603)

Unit 3: Public Health Interventions
COH 609 -  Public Health Program Evaluation (Prerequisite: COH 607)
COH 618 - Health Promotion Strategies (Prerequisite: COH 605)
COH 611 - Public Health Research Methods (Prerequisite: COH 606)
COH 612 - Health Policy & Advocacy (Prerequisite: COH 609)
COH 613 - Public Health Informatics (Prerequisite: COH 606)

Unit 4: Public Health Integration
COH 691 - Public Health Internship
  (Prerequisites: HCA 600, COH 600, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 607, 608, 609, 610, 611, 612, 613)
COH 692 - Public Health Capstone Project (Prerequisite: COH 691)

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Program Locations

• Technology and Health Sciences Center