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Master of Public Health

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This degree is designed to provide a professionally focused understanding of public health issues in America and abroad, to include the science, psychology, and sociology associated with public health issues. Students will study public law, policy, and administration associated with the effective and efficient administration of public health. They will learn the health system, its management, finances, and structure. Students in this program are typically interested in (or already employed in) some aspect of the health system, concerned of the public health situation in the United States and/or abroad, or are generally interested scholars who seek a public-minded degree.

Degree Program Objectives

In addition to the institutional and degree level learning outcomes objectives, the Master of Public Health also seeks the following specific learning outcomes of its graduates.  Graduates in this degree program will be able to:

  • Critically analyze the scope, capabilities, and limitations of public health systems in the United States.
  • Analyze the fundamental theories and philosophies of public health administration, policy-making, and implementation outcomes in emergency and disaster management and general health care administration.
  • Interpret and evaluate the literature, the research, and the practices in public health and its administration.
  • Examine public health in the context of legislation and emerging issues.
  • Evaluate and use macro- and microeconomic analyses of public health to design, manage, and implement cost effective organizational practices in public health.
  • Examine and evaluate the theories and practices surrounding disease and disease transmission, rates and proportions associated with different forms of outbreak, and epidemiological risk-management methods and measures.

Degree Program Requirements

Core Courses (15 semester hours)
  • RC550 / PBHE550 - Research Methods in Public Health
  • EM630 / PBHE501 - Public Health in America
  • DM557 / PBHE601 - Health Care Administration
  • DM553 / PBHE602 - Medical Care Concepts and Analysis
  • DM584 / PADM530 - Public Policy
Major Courses ( Select 15 semester hours)
  • DM555 / PBHE502 - Health Policy
  • DM556 / PBHE603 - Legal Environment of Health Care
  • DM576 / EDMG565 - Consequence Management
  • DM577 / PADM610 - Public Management
  • DM644 / EDMG612 - Risk Communications
  • EM502 / PBHE606 - Disaster Health Management
  • EM503 / EDMG530 - Economics of Disaster
  • EM516 / EDMG509 - Interagency Disaster Management
  • EM508 / EDMG540 - Emergency Management Health and Medical Issues
  • EM509 / PBHE607 - Epidemiology
  • EM519 / EDMG541 - Mass Casualty Incident Management
  • DM512 / EDMG560 - Crisis Action Planning
  • EM500 / EDMG611 - Case Analysis: Crisis and Disaster
  • EM631 / PBHE604 - Comparative Public Health Systems
  • EM632 / PBHE605 - Quarantine
  • DM548 / MGMT604 - Organizational Crisis Management
Graduate Electives (6 semester hours)

From other courses not taken to meet required, core, or major requirements.


End of Program Requirement - Select either Comprehensive Exam OR Capstone 
  • EM703 / PBHE698 - Separate Comprehensive Examination - {0 semester hours} - Taken once all other degree requirements have been met.
  • EM708 / PBHE699 - Master’s Capstone Seminar in Public Health [3 semester hours] - The Capstone Seminar will satisfy an Elective requirement

Total hours: 36 semester hours


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