Master of Public Health (MPH)

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The Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) program mission is the education and training of students within a course of study that promotes an understanding of the theoretical, scientific, and practical aspects of public health.

1. To equip students to have an overall perspective on public health
2. To create good program managers in public health
3. To inculcate interdisciplinary approach to problem solving skills in public health
4. To encourage interdisciplinary research in public health
5. To improve leadership skills in public health.
6. To prepare students to tackle current and emerging global public health problems such as pandemic flu, AIDS, bioterrorism, obesity, diabetes, disparities in access to healthcare, and many other critical public health problems.
7. To recognize and make the student understand that in today’s world, a thorough and rigorous public health education must embrace multiple areas viz: biostatistics, environmental health, epidemiology, health services administration, social and behavioral sciences, biological sciences, ethics, information technology, health policy and law in health.
8. To have an in depth field experience that serves as a capstone project that helps students integrate knowledge across courses.

Graduates of this program typically enter services as public health administrators, advisors, managers, researchers, practitioners, educators, and consultants in a wide variety of public health  and NGO  and international agencies. Many serve as health educators or health promotion specialists in business, industry, higher education, voluntary agencies, government, and private health care settings.

1. Competency based
2. Specially designed to develop leadership, communication and problem solving skills(ALE)
3. Positioned for true integration of public health science and practice  (ALE)
4. Additional certifications as per the students’ choices
5. Includes 3 practicums and capstone project to give real  experience before graduation
6. Individualized Goals Analysis of each student