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Yale School of Public Health Announces New Advanced Professional M.P.H. Program and Summer Session

New Haven, Conn. - The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) is pleased to announce the new Advanced Professional M.P.H. Program, a program designed to accommodate health professionals who are constrained by a July 1 to June 30 academic calendar.  It will provide rigorous public health training to individuals with a doctoral-level degree in a field related to public health.  Medical students who have completed their third year in an accredited medical school in the United States are also eligible for this program. 

The Advanced Professional M.P.H. Program will take fewer than eleven months to complete, beginning in early July with an intensive seven-week summer session, and concluding in early May after fall and spring semesters of full time study.    

Advanced Professional M.P.H. students will have the opportunity to concentrate in one of three educational disciplines.  Students interested in clinical or public health research methodology will concentrate in the Applied Biostatistics and Epidemiology track.  Students interested in social, psychological, and behavioral influences on health and in developing health promotion and disease prevention programs will concentrate in the Social and Behavioral Sciences track. Students interested in health policy and evaluation or in health services administration will concentrate in the Health Policy and Administration track. 

The Program inaugurates the first summer session ever offered at YSPH.  The summer session will cover the core areas of biostatistics, epidemiology, and health policy, laying the groundwork for students to take more advanced courses in the fall and spring semesters.

In addition, summer courses will be open to students in the M.S. in Chronic Disease Epidemiology Program, which is designed for students who seek to enhance their research, data analysis, and study design skills, but do not desire broad training in public health.  Students may now meet the biostatistics prerequisite for entering this program by taking the summer biostatistics course, so that the M.S. in Chronic Disease Epidemiology may now be completed within the same timeframe as the Advanced Professional M.P.H. Program.

Yale School of Medicine fellows, residents, and faculty who are not matriculated in a YSPH degree program may also apply for enrollment in summer courses.

Yale School of Public Health is committed to providing an excellent Advanced Professional M.P.H. Program to students who are mature, bright, highly motivated, and energetic, have clear goals, as well as possess high potential for leadership in public health.  Applicants are encouraged to apply early since enrollment is limited.  The application deadline is January 15, 2008.

For further information, please visit http://publichealth.yale.edu/ or contact Dr. Robert Dubrow (robert.dubrow@yale.edu; 203-785-2853).