Master of Public Health Concentration in Public Health Practice

About this programme

Degree offered: Master of Public Health (MPH), Concentration in Public Health Practice Master of Public Health (MPH) The MPH is a course-based program with an experiential learning component (Public Health Practicum) and a culminating experience (Applied Public Health Capstone Project) which demonstrates integration and synthesis of public health skills and knowledge. It is to be completed full-time over 4 terms. The MPH builds on SEPH’s existing strengths in global health, population health risk assessment, and empirical public health sciences. The content and structure of the program are also consistent with the Canadian Guidelines for MPH programs developed by the Network of Schools and Programs of Public and Population Health, the entity which represents the professional and academic public health community in Canada. We are partnered with the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs so that the MPH program can offer enhanced policy training to all enrolled students, and a policy stream that is unique in Ontario. This program will create leaders in the practice of public health and in public health policy analysis. The MPH program, concentration in Public Health Practice will prepare graduates to engage in professional public health activities including program evaluation, disease surveillance, communicable disease outbreak management, environmental/occupational health, and emergency preparedness. The MPH program will produce professionals who are competent, flexible, and ready to respond to diverse and changing population, disease, and political context