Students receive training in the five basic, discipline-specific, competency areas of public health: biostatistics, environmental health, epidemiology, health policy and management, and the social and behavioral sciences. Students also receive core competency education in informatics and communication, professionalism, systems thinking, research methods, and problem solving. A table with the complete list of MPH Core and Concentration Competencies is available here.
The Master's of Public Health is accredited by CEPH, the Council for Education in Public Health,
Master of Public Health Program
Curriculum (48 total credit hours)
Core Course (21 credits; 3 per course)
- Contemporary Issues in Public Health
- Biostatistics I
- Health Systems Performance
- Epidemiology for Public Health
- Environmental & Occupational Health
- Social & Behavioral Determinants of Health
- Fundamentals of Program Planning
Elective Examples
- Public Health Management of Disasters
- Racism and Health
- Global Health and Demography
- Qualitative Methods
- Health Communication
- Disability and Public Health
- Women and Gender Minorities and Population Health
- Human Resources Management in the Health Sector
- Long-Term Care in the Health Sector Aging and Health
Culminating Experience (6 credits; 3 per course) Practicum
Capstone Seminar: Population Health Issues
Concentration - students must select one (12 credits; 3 per course)
For more information on the concentrations listed below, please click here.
- Climate Solutions and Health
- Community Health
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Health Policy and Management*
- Generalist - designed for students in approved clinical programs or with completed advanced clinical degrees
Prior curriculum can be accessed via the bulletin for that academic year here.
Have curriculum questions? Email publichealth@stonybrookmedicine.edu.
