Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (DEPM)

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Master of Public Health Degree

Application deadlines: January 1 for Summer admission,
                                                  March 1 for Fall admission

The Master of Public Health is a professional degree whose purpose is to provide students concurrently enrolled in the professional schools and programs of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Social Work, and others), as well as persons with existing professional degrees (including staff, residents, fellows, and junior faculty) with the opportunity for formal training in public health.

Students have the option of specializing in one of nine concentration areas:

  • Epidemiology
  • Community & Population Health

The MPH degree requires 42 credit hours, including 17 credits from core courses and a six hour supervised project, Capstone Experience. Students must complete all of the core courses prior to beginning the Capstone Experience course.

Capstone Experience

The capstone experience is a 6-credit supervised public health field experience that requires substantive application of the knowledge and skills acquired in the MPH core courses and in courses taken in the area of concentration. Students must have completed all MPH core and concentration courses before taking the capstone course.

A proposal for the capstone is developed by the student in consultation with the faculty advisor, and must be approved by the director of the student’s MPH concentration area and the Capstone Committee. The faculty advisor and a field preceptor will jointly supervise the field experience. Examples of possible field experiences include significant contributions to a research study, placement in a government health department with an assigned project, systematic review of literature culminating in paper submitted for publication, development of public health policy for a government or non-profit agency. Students will be required to provide a written summary of their project and make a presentation based on the learning experience to the faculty and other MPH students, and where appropriate, to other audiences.

MPH Program Office

Teena Maultsby
Academic Coordinator
Phone 410: 706-0539
Email: tmaults@epi.umaryland.edu

 

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