M.S. in Public Health

The Master of Science in Public Health is a fully online degree program that prepares students to take on leadership roles in agencies that respond to the most pressing public health problems. Graduates of the MS Public Health are trained to plan and evaluate public health programs, analyze public health policy, manage healthcare industries, and conduct theoretical research in preparation for a Doctoral degree. The curriculum fosters the development of core public health competencies, with coursework in epidemiology, program planning and evaluation, health policy and administration, and applied fieldwork experience.

Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• design a proposal to address a health disparity incorporating ideas from a socio-ecological perspective that can be used to address the disparity.
• select methods to evaluate public health programs.
• apply epidemiological methods to a public health problem and setting.
• apply principles of leadership, governance and management in a public health setting.