about

The Graduate Program in
Public Health was established at Stony Brook to
train people who wish to integrate the knowledge, skills, vision, and values of
public health into their careers and provide leadership in the field. The
Program leads to the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree; the combined BS/MPH
with the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics; the combined
MBA/MPH; and the concurrent MD/MPH and DDS/MPH.  The Program contributes
to the PhD in Population Health and Clinical Outcomes Research, which was
approved by the State University of New York (SUNY) and the New York State
Department of Education in 2008.

The
Program
advocates a population health approach to public health. The hallmarks
of
population health are an ecological understanding of the determinants of
health
and a systems approach to solving health problems; emphasis on
proactively
stabilizing and improving health among all populations; and insistence
on
accountability, evidence-based practice, and continuous performance
improvement. The population health approach requires multi-disciplinary
collaboration among scholars in the social, behavioral, clinical, and
basic
sciences and humanities; development of comprehensive, sophisticated
health
information systems; and use of advanced analytical tools to examine
health
problems and evaluate responses to them

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