Sep 18, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

Public Health Leadership (42 Credit Hour), MPH


The Master of Public Health in Public Health Leadership is a 42 semester credit hour skill-based program designed to transform students into the public health leaders of tomorrow. Whether pursuing public health work in a governmental, non-governmental, profit or non-profit capacity, our graduates will be equipped with a skillset that will enable them to emerge as prominent leaders in the field. The Public Health Leadership MPH will equip graduates with a set of interdisciplinary skills to tackle issues at the heart of population health, community health, health equity, and a host of other public health issues. Graduates are prepared to effectively engage communities as partners to strengthen their capacity to change social and environmental conditions.  

This program can be completed on a part-time basis. For dual-degree students, courses from their other degree program can be used as electives in the MPH program. 

Admission Requirements and Application Procedures  

Electives


Students will work with their academic advisor to choose three 3 credit hour elective courses from the approved elective list.

MPH Practice Experience


All MPH students are required to complete a Public Health practice experience internship. This requirement is based upon the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accreditation.

This course provides opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience addressing MPH foundation and concentration-specific competencies, as well as achieve multiple accreditation requirements for applied practice and integrative learning experiences. Students commit to a three-semester experience with a qualified site supervisor and practice setting that promotes the synthesis and application of MPH competencies. Students are required to complete two products that utilize MPH competencies and make a meaningful contribution to their internship site. The internship is supervised by an HSC instructor of record as well as an internship site supervisor. 

Prerequisite: Students must be in good academic standing with the university and have completed all required courses during the first year cohort program or have completed at least 21 SCH as an online student. Students must successfully complete tasks in the zero-credit hour Pre-PHED 5297 canvas course prior to enrolling in the three course practice experience sequence.

For more information, please see the Public Health Practice Experience website.