MASTER of PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM

Degrees Offered, Concentrations, and Course Requirements

“What other program lets you see the world, try to save it, and get credit at the same time?!!” Tim Caylor, SGA President 2007-8, Summer 2007 Practice Experience in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The Master of Public Health (MPH) program in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (ENHS) is a 45-credit hour degree program designed to provide graduates interested in careers in risk assessment, water quality management, regulatory toxicology, occupational safety and health, industrial hygiene, or disaster preparedness and management with a solid academic and experiential background.  Such an academic background will assist graduates in their future careers by qualifying them for administrative positions in academic, governmental, and private sectors.   In addition, the MPH in ENHS will assist graduates in preparing for national certification examinations in public health, industrial hygiene, or toxicology, as required for professional advancement.

School of Public Health Requirements

Core courses in Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Environmental Health Sciences, Health Services Administration and Management, Behavioral Health Science, and Ethics, as well as Fieldwork and Thesis/Capstone.

Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Capstone

The formal capstone class during will be offered in the spring of each year beginning in January. It will feature guest lectures from professors in the core disciplines for brief reviews of their core disciplines in public health and will require students to prepare and present analytical reports focused on environmental and/or occupational health sciences. Students must demonstrate the ability to implement all of the core disciplines, including a statistical and epidemiological analysis of primary or secondary data, environmental and/or occupational and behavioral sciences in descriptive analyses, cognizant of financial, regulatory-legal and ethical considerations.

Successful completion of the capstone course (3 credit hours) will be required of all students. Individual capstone presenters will have an option to submit a more formalized, master’s thesis document to the course directors for an additional 3 credit hours (capstone/thesis = 6 credit hours).

 

 

ENHS students Anna and Chase, Summer 2008 Practice Experience in Salvador Brazil

 

Elective Courses Recommended for Environmental Health Focus
Emergency Response to Disasters & Terrorism	3 hours
Health Risk Communication	3 hours
Travel & Tropical Health & Medicine	3 hours
Air Pollution & Dispersion Modeling	3 hours
Water & Wastewater Management & Treatment	3 hours
Prevention & Management of Food-Borne Diseases	3 hours
Medical Entomology: Prevention & Management of Arthropod-Borne Diseases	3 hours
Molecular Epidemiology	3 hours
Spatial Analysis	3 hours
Elective Courses Recommended for Occupational Health Focus
Analytical & Forensic Toxicology	3 hours
Emergency Response to Disasters & Terrorism	3 hours
Travel & Tropical Health & Medicine	3 hours
Clinical Preventive Medicine	3 hours
Occupational Lung Diseases	3 hours
Radiological Health & Radiation Safety	3 hours
Industrial Hygiene & Environmental Safety	3 hours
Molecular Epidemiology	3 hours
Spatial Analysis	3 hours

Other School of Public Health electives as approved by advisor.