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Advanced Professional MPH in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

This program is uniquely suited to physicians training in occupational and environmental medicine or aerospace medicine residencies or fellowships for board eligibility.

Requirements

2023-24 Matriculation
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.

MPH Core Courses (7 course units)

  • 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 588 Health Justice Practicum - 1 unit
  • EMD/SBS 596 Health Justice: Theory to Practice - 1 unit
  • SBS 541 Community Health Program Evaluation - 1 unit
Integrated Learning Experience

Track Courses (5 course units)

  • EHS 575 Introduction to Occupational and Environmental Medicine - 1 unit
  • EHS 573 Epidemiological Issues in Occupational and Environmental Medicine - 1 unit
  • CDE 534 Applied Analytic Methods in Epidemiology - 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

Elective Courses (5 course units)