Course variations

Course summary

This program provides rigorous public health training to individuals with a doctoral-level degree in a field related to public health and to medical students who have completed their third year in an accredited medical school in the United States. The program is designed for mature individuals with clear goals in public health. A student can enter the program to gain skills in clinical research methodology or to prepare to be the director of a community health center, a leader in a state or local health department, or a medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among other goals. Preventive Medicine Residents and Occupational and Environmental Medicine Fellows can enter the program to complete their M.P.H. degree requirement.

Program modules

The modules include Core Curriculum: BIS 515c, Accelerated Biostatistics (2 Course Units), CDE 515c, Accelerated Epidemiology (1 Course Units), HPA 515c, Accelerated Health Politics and Policy (1 Course Units), CDE 505a, Social and Behavioral Influences on Health (1 Course Units), EPH 515b, Seminar on Introduction to Research Ethics, One of the following five: EHS 510a, Contemporary Issues in Environmental Health (1 Course Units), EHS 511b, Applied Risk Assessment (1 Course Units), EHS 503a, Introduction to Toxicology (1 Course Units), EHS 507a, Environmental Epidemiology (1 Course Units), EHS 575a, Intro to Occupational and Environmental Medicine (1 Course Units), One of the following two: CDE 542b, Community Health Program Planning (1 Course Units), EPH 500b, Public Health Practicum (1 Course Units), Track Requirements: CDE 523b, Measurement Issues in Chronic Disease Epidemiology (1 Course Units), CDE 534b, Approaches to Data Management and Analysis of Epidemiologic Data (1 Course Units), CDE 572a, Preventive Interventions: Theory, Methods, Evaluation (1 Course Units), CDE 574b, Developing a Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Intervention (1 Course Units), Two of the following six: CDE 531a, Health and Aging (1 Course Units), CDE 545b, Health Disparities by Race and Sex: Epidemiology and Interventions (1 Course Units), CDE 570a, Epidemiology of Psychiatric Disorders (1 Course Units), CDE 571b, Psychosocial and Behavioral Epidemiology (1 Course Units), CDE 575b, Religion, Health, and Society (1 Course Units), CDE 576b, Social Psychological Theories of Health (1 Course Units), Capstone course: CDE 617b, Developing a Research Protocol (1 Course Units).

Entry requirement for international students

All applicants for admission are required to take the General Test of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE). Those who have already taken the test must submit transcripts of their scores with their applications. Scores that are six or more years old are not acceptable. Those who have not taken the test should arrange to do so immediately upon forwarding an application for admission to the School.International students are required to take both the General Test and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).Computer-based testing has replaced paper format and can be scheduled year-round. It takes two weeks from the date of administration for the official transcript of GRE scores to reach the School.

Qualification

Masters

Awarding body

Yale University

Department name

Yale School of Public Health