Advanced Professional MPH in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

The Advanced Professional MPH degree requires a total of 16 course units. The Advanced Professional MPH in Occupational and Environmental Medicine (11-month program) requires the student to complete or acquire an exemption from the following courses. If a course is waived, a substitute course must be identified.

• Public Health Primer - 0 units; summer
• BIS 515 Accelerated Biostatistics - 2 units; summer
• SBS 505 Accelerated Social Foundations of Health - 1 unit; summer
• CDE 515 Accelerated Epidemiology - 1 unit; summer
• PUBH 510 Health Policy and Health Care Systems - 1 unit; fall

One of the following (public health practice requirement):

• PUBH 500 Public Health Practicum - 1 unit; spring
• PUBH 501 U.S. Health Justice Practicum - 1 unit; spring
• HPM 555 Health Policy or Health Care Management Practicum - 1 unit; spring
• HPM 556 Advanced Health Policy Practicum - 1 unit; fall
• PUBH 555 Clinic in Climate Justice, Climate Policy, Law, and Public Health - 1 unit fall or spring
• EMD/SBS 584 Advanced Global Health Justice Practicum: Fieldwork - 1 unit; fall or spring
• EMD/SBS 588 Health Justice Practicum - 1 unit; fall or spring

• EHS 575 Introduction to Occupational and Environmental Medicine - 1 unit; fall
• EHS 508 Environmental & Occupational Exposure Science - 1 unit; spring
• EHS 573 Epidemiological Issues in Occupational and Environmental Medicine - 1 unit; spring
• CDE 534 Applied Analytic Methods in Epidemiology - 1 unit; spring

One of the following capstone courses:

• SBS 574 Developing a Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Intervention - 1 unit; fall
• CDE 535 Epidemiology of Heart Disease and Stroke - 1 unit; spring
• CDE 572 Obesity Prevention and Lifestyle Interventions - 1 unit; fall
• CDE 617 Developing a Research Proposal - 1 unit; fall
• CDE 650 Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine and Health Care - 1 unit; fall
• HPM 597 Capstone Course in Health Policy - 1 unit; spring
• PUBH 557 Evidence-Based Decision Making in Global Health - 1 unit; spring
• HPM 575 Evaluation of Global Health Policies and Programs - 1 unit; spring

Elective Courses (6 course units)

To complete this requirement, students take one of the following courses and complete the Integrated Learning Experience form to document their experience: HPM 597, SBS 574, CDE 617, PUBH 608, PUBH 557 or PUBH 525.

When you graduate from YSPH, you have options! Our curriculum is closely mapped to the core and departmental competencies so that you will have a foundation in the skills you need for a successful career in public health. See our Career Management Center pages to see where our alumni live and work after completing their MPH studies.

The core curriculum of the MPH program focuses on competencies in evidence-based approaches to public health (1–4), public health and health care systems (5–6), planning and management to promote health (7–11), policy in public health (12–15), leadership (16–17), communication (18–20), interprofessional practice (21), and systems thinking (22).

Upon completing the core curriculum, the student will be able to:

1. Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice.
2. Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context.
3. Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming and software, as appropriate.
4. Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy, or practice.
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5. Compare the organization, structure, and function of health care, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings.
6. Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels.
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7. Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities’ health.
8. Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design or implementation of public health policies or programs.
9. Design a population-based policy, program, project, or intervention.
10. Explain the basic principles and tools of budget and resource management.
11. Select methods to evaluate public health programs.
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12. Discuss multiple dimensions of the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence.
13. Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes.
14. Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations.
15. Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity.
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16. Apply principles of leadership, governance, and management, which include creating a vision, empowering others, fostering collaboration, and guiding decision-making.
17. Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges.
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18. Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors.
19. Communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation.
20. Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content.
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21. Perform effectively on interprofessional teams.
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22. Apply systems-thinking tools to a public health issue.

Upon receiving an MPH degree in the Advanced Professional MPH Program, with a concentration in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the student will be able to:

• Describe the occupational and environmental contributions to disease and injury, and apply safety and prevention methodology to identified hazards
• Identify the principal study designs in OEM epidemiology and critically interpret and apply the literature to clinical scenarios
• Evaluate the appropriate method of testing an exposure and interpret both environmental exposure and biomonitoring data to assess environmental exposures
• Create and manipulate data sets and variables to evaluate epidemiologic associations
• Conduct and interpret a multivariable linear regression analysis to evaluate epidemiologic associations