MPH - Global Health Track | Icahn School of Medicine

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Department of Public Health and Public Health Education Programs

The Global Health concentration in the Master of Public Health (MPH) program is designed for students interested in understanding complex global health issues. This Concentration prepares students to address pressing health challenges across diverse populations and settings worldwide. Through theoretical and hands-on experience, you will gain the needed skills to work in a wide variety of settings with diverse populations, and bring practical solutions to major public health problems of underserved and neglected populations worldwide.

Courses in this concentration address a wide variety of global health priorities such as planetary health, maternal and child health, and climate impacts on global health. Students can also take advantage of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health, which offers public health and research programs around the globe.

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Explain the global context in which public health problems occur including the social, political, economic, and environmental forces that underly them.
Describe the roles or relationships of the systems and entities that influence global Health and/or Planetary health.
Identify the leadership or management skills needed to effectively participate or lead local, national, or global health organizations.
Apply analytical skills to assess climate change impacts on global health
Integrate ethical, cultural, and environmental considerations in addressing global and planetary health challenges

MPH 3000 (Formerly MPH 0700) Introduction to Global Health	1
MPH 3001 (Formerly MPH 0722) Planetary Health	3
MPH 3002 (Formerly MPH 0721) Climate Change, Atmospheric Environment and Global Health	3
MPH 3003 (Formerly MPH 0717) Global Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health	3
Students must choose an additional 12 elective credits in consultation with the Concentration Director	variable

Meet Your Concentration Director

Youssef Oulhote, PhD

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Global Health and Health Systems Design

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Environmental Medicine

Dr. Youssef Oulhote is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health in the Departments of Environmental Medicine and Global Health and a member of the Institute for Exposomic Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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Sakshi Sawarkar, MPH

“When I started the program, I was interested in a variety of global public health aspects but wasn't sure how to pursue a career in the field. I was able to participate in global health fieldwork through the program, which strengthened my passion for research and allowed me to get an immersive cultural experience."

Sakshi Sawarkar, MPH

Justine Marcinek

“Environmental and occupational public health classes enabled me to cultivate connections in the field and develop my interests into my culminating experience. Integrating what I learned about public health research, statistics, computer programming, and health policy, I wrote a first-author manuscript.”