Executive MPH Newsletter

From the Director

It is with great pleasure that I provide my first director’s note for the Class of 2025 and welcome back the Class of 2024. Just as each class has formed its own sense of community and support, we can now offer opportunities to achieve the same for the combined classes.

Over the coming weeks you will hear from me about programming for both classes. This will allow you to learn together, learn from each other, and expand your academic and professional network.

You have been invited to the initial skills-based sessions by our librarians, and we will add more during the academic year. We will also offer journal club, where you can hone your analytic and research methods skills. Since many of you have not written term papers in many years, we will have an expert from the Poorvu Center offer a session on effective writing. We will also offer you the opportunity to create special interest groups so you can meet other Executive MPH students who share your foci and passions. And we will take our “In Conversation” series that we provide to students during the intensives and offer several online.

I write knowing that you are extremely busy, managing work demands, schoolwork, and personal lives. When you can, I urge you to try and make time for some of the extracurricular programing, both for the specific benefits they bring and the community they offer.

Wishing all of you the best for the fall semester.

Warmly,

Martin Klein, PhD, MPH
Director, Yale Executive MPH Program

Faculty profile

Debbie Humphries, assistant professor of clinical public health, has a broad background in public health research and practice, including training organizations in participatory monitoring and evaluation in Vietnam, Africa, and the U.S. In Connecticut, Humphries’ Practice-based Community Health Research course places students with agencies to plan and evaluate programs.

Student News

Emily Baltes '24 (in photo, center) participated in a medical mission to Guatemala where she performed much-needed gynecology surgeries on medically underserved people. Yale alumna Kathryn Sarnoski also participated.

Jeff Cohen '25 and one of his patients with a mysterious skin condition recently were profiled in the popular Diagnosis column in the New York Times’ Magazine.

Daniel Andersen '24 co-authored a humanitarian research paper on the effect of conflict on medical facilities in Mariupol, Ukraine.

EMPH Graduation

This past May’s commencement marked the first graduating class of YSPH’s Executive Master of Public Health. Read more about graduation and about the inaugural Executive MPH class.

Q&A with Dean Ranney

YSPH dean, Dr. Megan L. Ranney, MD, is overseeing YSPH’s historic transition from a department within the Yale School of Medicine to an independent school.

Leaders in Public Health

Prominent statistician Bhramar Mukherjee from the University of Michigan opened a new Dean’s speaker series in August.

An Introduction to Library Resources

Learn how to set up Yale Links in Google Scholar and PubMed for seamless access to the full text of articles.

Master the Literature Review Process 

APHA Annual Meeting

APHA’s 2023 Annual Meeting and Expo is the premier public health event of the year.