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Goals & Objectives

Goal 1 - Education and Training

Provide an interdisciplinary MPH Program which delivers a curriculum that addresses the core areas of public health, including public health ethics, and delivers training in methods from the two concentration areas of epidemiology and community & population health. This goal will be accomplished by offering coursework and a culminating practicum experience designed to provide the necessary skills to analyze the impact of socioeconomic, cultural, political, behavioral, biological, and environmental factors on population health, and translate data into evidence-based public health recommendations, interventions, and policies.

  • Objective 1.a. Recruit new faculty to increase the numbers of primary faculty in each of the concentrations.

  • Objective 1.b. Increase the number of secondary and additional faculty in the professional schools at UMB who teach in the MPH Program, and serve as faculty mentors and on-campus site preceptors for MPH students.

  • Objective 1.c. Increase the diversity of primary and secondary faculty.

  • Objective 1.d. Recruit well-qualified students who are ethnically and culturally diverse.

  • Objective 1.e. Increase the number of student field placement sites, and the number of community-based research, training, and service projects.

  • Objective 1.f. Develop continuing education training opportunities for professionals in the public health workforce.

  • Objective 1.g. Implement new interactive and innovative teaching methods (e.g. distance learning; internet-based teaching).

  • Objective 1.h. Review educational objectives, academic curricula, and teaching resources on an annual basis using evaluation tools with objective measures to insure that they meet and/or exceed accreditation criteria

Goal 2 - Service and Outreach

Address public health issues by being a source of public health knowledge and resources for Maryland's citizens and communities, and building community capacity for monitoring, addressing, and protecting the populations' health. This goal will be accomplished by increasing opportunities for community outreach through campus-community partnerships and providing training in public health practice to MPH students and the UMB academic community.

  • Objective 2.a. Increase collaborations between faculty and students in the MPH Program and the UMB professional Schools to deliver educational, training, and outreach programs to local communities.

  • Objective 2.b. Involve students in community-based educational and outreach programs across the professional schools at UMB that target the elimination of health disparities.

  • Objective 2.c. Increase the number of collaborations with advocacy groups across the various communities and constituencies served by the faculty, students and programs at UMB.

Goal 3 - Research

Promote an interdisciplinary research environment that addresses the public health needs of the diverse populations in communities throughout Maryland by expanding initiatives that have a public health focus across the professional schools, research, and clinical centers on the UMB campus.

  • Objective 3.a. Increase opportunities for faculty to conduct and publish high quality public health research by developing mechanisms for public health research collaborations across the schools at UMB.

  • Objective 3.b. Increase the number of opportunities for student involvement in public health research.

  • Objective 3.c. Increase the opportunities for faculty to conduct interdisciplinary community-based research that targets the elimination of health disparities, and the involvement of local communities in these initiatives.

Goal 4 - Program Growth and Development

Build an infrastructure that supports the growth and development of the MPH Program, and provides adequate resources for its educational, service, and research goals and objectives.

  • Objective 4.a. Continue to increase financial resources to the MPH Program.

  • Objective 4.b. Increase the classroom space and invest in computer equipment for online course delivery and other resources for the teaching and administration of the MPH Program.

  • Objective 4.c. Increase the visibility of the MPH Program through targeted student recruitment efforts in the public health and human services communities throughout Maryland.

  • Objective 4.d. Develop linkages with government, industry, and other external funding sources to support the growth of the MPH Program.