Public Health (MPH)
Faculty
Chris Chanyasulkit, Senior Lecturer
John Quattrochi, Assistant Professor
Shelley White, Program Director, Assistant Professor
Description
MPH@Simmons students develop the scientific, leadership, and advocacy skills needed to address health inequity and ensure fair and equitable health opportunities for individuals and communities around the world. The 45-credit curriculum is broken down as follows:
36
Core Credits
6
Elective Credits
3
Immersion Credits
The program covers the traditional core areas of public health:
Epidemiology
Biostatistics
Health Policy/Health Services
Environmental Health
Social/Behavioral Health
The concept of health equity, as well as practice-based strategies for addressing population health, is woven throughout the curriculum. In addition, students in the MPH@Simmons program may choose from a range of interdisciplinary electives to tailor the program to fit their specific needs and interests.
Learning Outcomes
Upon graduation from the MPH@Simmons program, students will be able to:
- Define the principles of health equity, human rights and social justice, and apply these frameworks to public health challenges.
- Identify the patterns and root causes of population health disparities, locally, nationally, and globally.
- Appraise one’s own position, values, and biases, within the systems and structures that shape population health.
- Use epidemiological and statistical data to assess public health needs and evaluate program and policy outcomes.
- Employ participatory methods, including needs assessment, action research, and community organizing, to assess and address community health issues.
- Describe systems of oppression and structural-level determinants of health, including racism and other forms of marginalization, climate change, toxins, unhealthy work environments, poverty, nutrition and food systems, water security, and other social, political and economic factors shaping population health.
- Undertake policy analysis within and beyond traditional public health domains and employ health advocacy skills toward health equity.
- Demonstrate public health leadership and management skills, including strategic planning, program design, teamwork, communication, as well as organizational and project management.
- Evaluate public health as a vehicle for transformative change by identifying past and potential future models of innovation at community and institutional levels.
- Apply a public health skill set for high-impact social change through the design, implementation, and evaluation of an applied change project focused on improving health equity.
Requirements for entry into program
To be considered for admission into MPH@Simmons, you must have completed:
- A bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher (on a 4-point scale)
- At least one college-level math course (statistics preferred) with a course grade of B or higher (course GPA of 3.0 or higher on a 4-point scale)
- Factors such as work experience, volunteer endeavors, and undergraduate coursework in health or social sciences, while not required for acceptance into the program, can add value to your application.
Costs Including financing and fellowships / assistantships
Delivery Mode or Modes Available (full-time, part-time, locations, technologies, etc.)
Online
Degree requirements
The 45-credit curriculum is broken down as follows:
36 Core Credits
6 Elective Credits
3 Immersion Credits
Health Equity Change Project
Completed during the final two terms of the program, the Health Equity Change Project combines the practice and culminating experiences required of MPH degree recipients into a single opportunity. Through this applied learning project, students will create, implement, and evaluate a public health program or campaign focused on improving health equity in their own community.
In-Person Immersion Experiences
Students in the MPH@Simmons program are required to participate in two in-person learning experiences called immersions. Immersions offer students the opportunity to gain hands-on public health experience within different cultures and contexts nationally and globally.
Concentrations, specializations, etc.
Licensure, certification, etc.
Dual (and other) degree options (With what other degree programs may this program be combined?)
Other program information