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General Public Health Concentration

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Career-Focused Skill Building: This concentration is designed to progressively build practical, job-ready public health competencies that align with current workforce needs and your career goals.

The General Public Health concentration in the Master of Public Health (MPH) program offers broad and interdisciplinary training across core public health disciplines such as public health policy and management, epidemiology, biostatistics, and global health and prepares students to investigate and act on the root causes of health and disease in communities by examining how social systems, environmental exposures, and infrastructure shape public health outcomes.

Through public health program planning, implementation science, and community-based research and learning, students gain tools to transform public health systems and improve the health of communities at the local, national, and global levels.

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  1. Examine and characterize how environmental and system conditions influence patterns of health and disease across populations.
  2. Design public health programs and policies within a socio-ecological framework, including plans for implementation, evaluation and improvement.
  3. Use established theories and models of health behavior to inform the design and implementation of public health programs.
  4. Identify and evaluate environmental exposures and their impact on human health using appropriate epidemiologic and biostatistical methods.
  5. Inform the development of policies and practices that mitigate health risks and promote health in populations.

MPH 4000 (Formerly MPH 0014) Program Planning

3

MPH 4001 (Formerly MPH 0216) Health Promotion Strategies

3

MPH 4002 (Formerly MPH 0419) Environmental & Occupational Epidemiology

3

MPH 4003 (Formerly MPH 0020) Implementation Science

2

Students must choose an additional 11 elective credits in consultation with the Concentration Director

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Meet Your Concentration Director

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John T Doucette, PhD

Associate Professor, Environmental Medicine and Public Health

Dr. Douchette earned his PhD from Yale University and is the Concentration Advisor for General Public Health.

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Bisharat Minhas, MBBS, MPH

"The MPH program fundamentally reshaped how I understand public health challenges. Through coursework in epidemiology, biostatistics, and health data analysis, I gained tools to examine disease patterns, health systems, and outcomes at scale. The program also exposed me to the growing role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in research."

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Bisharat Minhas, MBBS, MPH

"The MPH program fundamentally reshaped how I understand public health challenges. Through coursework in epidemiology, biostatistics, and health data analysis, I gained tools to examine disease patterns, health systems, and outcomes at scale. The program also exposed me to the growing role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in research."

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D’Andria Hollins

“Every experience in the MPH program challenges you in some way and helps you determine how you want to utilize your degree. Meeting experts in the medical field, sitting in on conversations that bridge research and practice, and having professors who genuinely care about our development have shaped my approach to my studies. With opportunities offered in virtual, in-person, and hybrid formats, it’s possible to keep exploring different areas of public health even while managing a busy schedule.”

Bisharat Minhas headshot

Bisharat Minhas, MBBS, MPH

"The MPH program fundamentally reshaped how I understand public health challenges. Through coursework in epidemiology, biostatistics, and health data analysis, I gained tools to examine disease patterns, health systems, and outcomes at scale. The program also exposed me to the growing role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in research."

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D’Andria Hollins

“Every experience in the MPH program challenges you in some way and helps you determine how you want to utilize your degree. Meeting experts in the medical field, sitting in on conversations that bridge research and practice, and having professors who genuinely care about our development have shaped my approach to my studies. With opportunities offered in virtual, in-person, and hybrid formats, it’s possible to keep exploring different areas of public health even while managing a busy schedule.”

Yera Sureshbhai Patel

Yera Sureshbhai Patel

“I wanted to be in an environment where public health challenges are not just discussed theoretically but observed and addressed in in real time. Mount Sinai’s MPH program offered a setting where academic learning, research and community impact intersect in meaningful way. The Global Mental Health concentration broadened my understanding of how stigma, access to care, cultural context and society influence mental health outcomes worldwide and challenged me to think about culturally responsive, community-based approaches to care. ”

Public Health Concentration

General Public Health
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