Advanced Professional MPH in Preventive Medicine

This program is designed for physicians doing residencies or fellowships in preventive medicine as part of their board eligibility.

The Advanced Professional MPH degree requires a total of 16 course units. The Advanced Professional MPH in Preventive Medicine requires the student to complete or acquire an exemption from the following courses. If a course is waived, a substitute course must be identified.

• BIS 515 Accelerated Biostatistics - 2 units
• SBS 505 Accelerated Social Foundations of Health - 1 unit
• CDE 515 Accelerated Epidemiology - 1 unit
• EPH 510 Health Policy and Health Care Systems - 1 unit
• EPH 513 Major Health Threats - 1 unit

One of the following (public health practice requirement):

• EPH 500 Public Health Practicum - 1 unit
• HPM 555 Health Policy or Health Care Management Practicum - 1 unit
• HPM 556 Advanced Health Policy Practicum - 1 unit
• EPH 555 Practicum in Climate Change, Sustainability, and Public Health - 1 unit
• EMD/SBS 584 Advanced Global Health Justice Practicum: Fieldwork - 1 unit
• EMD/SBS 588 Health Justice Practicum - 1 unit

• EHS 575 Introduction to Occupational and Environmental Medicine - 1 unit
• HPM 570 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Decision Making - 1 unit
• CDE 534 Applied Analytic Methods in Epidemiology - 1 unit

One of the following:

• CDE 572 Obesity Prevention and Lifestyle Interventions - 1 unit
• SBS 594 Maternal-Child Public Health Nutrition - 1 unit
• CDE 562 Nutrition and Chronic Disease - 1 unit
• CDE 551 Global Noncommunicable Disease - 1 unit

One of the following:

• BIS 540 Fundamentals of Clinical Trials - 1 unit
• CDE 650 Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine and Health Care - 1 unit
• SBS 676 Questionnaire Development - 1 unit
• SBS 580 Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health - 1 unit
• EMD 533 Implementation Science- 1 unit
• EHS 531 Systematic Reviews, Meta-Analyses, and Meta-Research- 1 unit

One of the following:

• EHS 503 Public Health Toxicology - 1 unit
• EHS 511 Principles of Risk Assessment - 1 unit
• EHS 573 Epidemiological Issues in Occupational and Environmental Medicine - 1 unit
• EHS 508 Environmental and Occupational Exposure Sciences - 1 unit

One of the following capstone courses:

• SBS 574 Developing a Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Intervention - 1 unit
• CDE 617 Developing a Research Proposal - 1 unit
• HPM 597 Capstone Course in Health Policy - 1 unit
• EPH 557 Evidence-Based Decision Making in Global Health - 1 unit
• HPM 575 Evaluation of Global Health Policies and Programs - 1 unit
• EPH 608 - Frontiers of Public Health - 1 unit