Curriculum - Master of Public Health
Global Health Opportunities FairIn addition to mastering the core curriculum competencies and the competencies for the student’s department or program, each student in the Global Health Concentration learns to analyze and describe international health issues. All students in the Global Health Concentration will complete three global health courses from at least two of the five perspectives on public health by which global health courses have been categorized. Students will also participate in two semesters of the Global Health Seminar (preferably in their first year) and complete a global health internship during the summer between the first and second years of the M.P.H. program. If students have already had 10-12 weeks of international public health experience, they can do an internship based in the US as long as it is pertinent to global health; otherwise, they have to do an internship abroad. Students must write a global health-related thesis or participate in a relevant capstone experience (as determined by their department).
Competencies for the M.P.H. Global Health Concentration and the Advanced Professional M.P.H. Program Global Health Track
Each student in the Global Health Concentration will master the core curriculum competencies and the competencies for the student’s department or program. In addition, upon receiving an M.P.H. degree in the Global Health Concentration, the student will be able to:
- Describe the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the world and in the world’s major regions. Students should be able to broadly differentiate the causes of morbidity and mortality by age, gender, income quintile within countries, and country income group.
- Describe cross-national determinants of health based on courses selected from the five perspectives on public health: biomedicine; epidemiology; psychosocial/ social and behavioral/ anthropology; development/ political economy; ethics/ history/ humanities. Students should be able to explain how those determinants vary by age, gender, income quintile within countries, and country income group.
- Assess global health issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, including public health disciplines, medicine, international relations, environmental studies, political science, law, anthropology, economics and others.
- Analyze global health problems taking into account their social, political, economic, legal, and human rights dimensions.
- Propose evidence-based solutions to the key health problems affecting maternal, newborn and child health; adolescent health; and the health of adults.
- Understand the different components of the global health governance infrastructure, how they have evolved over time, and critically assess this infrastructure.
- Apply necessary leadership skills to serve as bridges between the global health research and practice settings.
- Apply research methods in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of global health initiatives.
- Explain and propose solutions for the unique challenges involved in conducting public health research in low-resource settings.
- Describe and analyze different roles of global public health practitioners and apply this to individual career development.
- Students should be able to communicate global health issues, causes, and solutions to diverse stakeholders including practitioners, lay audiences, policy staff, media, and scientists.
Curriculum
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Requirements | CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS | Course Units |
EPH 591a, Global Health Seminar* | n/a | |
EPH 591b, Global Health Seminar | n/a | |
HPM 566b, Critical Issues in Global Health | 1 | |
EPH 520c, Summer Internship** | n/a | |
EPH 525, Thesis or Capstone experience (determined by division) | 2
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Three courses from at least two of the five perspectives on public health | ||
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1 | ||
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GH courses (offered in 2012-2013) categorized by perspectives on public health
Biomedicine: | |
BENG 405b, Biotechnology and the Developing World | 1 |
EMD 680a/ MBIO 680a, Molecular and Cellular Processes of Parasitic Eukaryotes | 1 |
MBIO 547b, Vaccines: Concepts in Biology | 1 |
Epidemiology: | |
EMD 543a, Global Aspects of Food and Nutrition | 1 |
EMD 591a, Water, Infectious Disease, and Global Health | 1 |
EMD 557a/ NURS 713a, Global HIV/AIDS: Challenges and Responses | 1 |
EMD 572a/ F&ES 891a, Ecoepidemiology | 1 |
HLTH 230a/b, Global Health: Challenges and Promises (also listed in Psychosocial) | 1 |
HLTH 325a / GLBL 323a / INRL 525a, Global Health Research: Methods and Ethics | 1 |
MCDB 861b, Global Problems of Population Growth | 1 |
HLTH 444, Biology, Pathogenesis, and Natural History of HIV/AIDS | 1 |
Psychosocial/ Social and Behavioral/ Anthropology: | |
ANTH 812a, Topics in Anthropological Genetics | 1 |
ANTH 462b/INRL 624b, Ethnographic Perspectives on Global Health | 1 |
CDE 594a, Maternal and Child Public Health Nutrition | 1 |
CDE 541a, Community Health Program Evaluation | 1 |
HLTH 230a/b, Global Health: Challenges and Promises (also listed in Epidemiology) | 1 |
HLTH 330a, Case Studies in Global Health: Great Campaigns, Reforming Health Systems & Equity | 1 |
INRL 628a/ANTH 628a, Conflict, Resilience & Health | 1 |
ANTH 583a/INRL 621a, Health Disparities and Health Equity: Biocultural Perspectives | 1 |
SOCY 543b, Demography, Gender and Health | 1 |
INRL 624b/ANTH 662b, Global Health Ethnographic Perspectives | 1 |
Development/ Political Economy: | |
AFST 401a/AFST 501a/ INRL 516a, Research Methods in African Studies | 1 |
ECON 325b, Economics of Developing Countries | 1 |
F&ES 873a/ EVST 226a/ ARCG 226a, Global Environmental History | 1 |
AFST 839a/ HIST 839a, Environmental History of Africa | 1 |
F&ES 727a, Future of Food: Environment, Health and Law | 1 |
GLBL 319a/PLSC 370a/SAST 343a/AFST 345a/ AFST 645a, Political Economy of Natural Disasters | 1 |
INRL 629a, Sexuality, Health and Human Rights | 1 |
HIST 943b/ HSHM 736b/ WGSS 730b, Health Politics, Body Politics | 1 |
F&ES 245b/PLSC 146b/EVST 245b, International Environmental Policy and Governance | 1 |
INRL 713b, Critical Issues in Development Policy | 1 |
AFST 647b/AFST 447b/PLSC 447b/EP&E 271b/ER&M 271b, Rwandan Genocide In Compared Context | 1 |
HPM 591a, Global Health Economics | 1 |
HPM 546a, Ethical Issues in Public Health | 1 |
GLBL 384a/ER&M 362a/ SOCY 363, Genocide and Ethnic Conflict | 1 |
Ethics/ History/ Humanities: | |
HIST 902a/ EAST 525a/HSHM 707a, Impact of Epidemic Disease in Context: Focus on Asia | 1 |
HIST 930a/ HSHM 701a/AMST 878a, Problems in the History of Medicine and Public Health | 1 |
PHIL 703b/ PLSC 594b/INRL 524b, Global Health Ethics, Politics and Economics | 1 |
HSHM 437b/HIST 435J, Global Crisis of Malaria | 1 |
*One full academic year, to be taken in the first year
**If the student has already had 10-12 weeks of international public health experience, they can do a global health internship in the US as long as it is pertinent to global health; otherwise, they have to do an international internship.
rev. 8/27/2012
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