Overview

To ensure a qualified, well-trained public health workforce, this fully online Master of Public Health - Health Promotion (MPH) degree program offers a planned program of study that provides prospective and current public-health workers with: a strong general background in areas of knowledge basic to public health, experience applying public health knowledge through independent research, a field placement experience under qualified supervision, and specialized coursework in health promotion.

Graduates from Southern Connecticut State University are able to perform community assessment; plan, administer and evaluate health promotion and disease prevention programs; advocate effectively for sound public health policies; and provide leadership and innovation in the field.

Key Facts

Graduates with Public Health from Southern Connecticut State University will be able to:

• apply statistical reasoning and methods in addressing, analyzing and solving problems in public health.

• identify important environmental factors, (including biological, physical and chemical), affecting the health of a community.

• delineate patterns of disease and injury in human populations and to apply the understanding to the control of health problems.

• affect the delivery, quality, financing and costs of health care for individuals and populations through managerial and policy actions.

• identify behavioral, social and cultural factors related to individual and population health and health disparities over the life course and to apply such knowledge to the development, administration and evaluation of programs and policies in public health and health services to promote and sustain healthy environments and healthy lives for individuals and populations.    

• collect, manage and organize data to produce information and meaning that is exchanged by use of signs and symbols; to gather, process, and present information to different audiences in-person, through information technologies, or through media channels; and to strategically design the information and knowledge exchange process to achieve specific objectives.

• interact with diverse individuals and communities to produce or impact an intended public health outcome.

• create and communicate a shared vision for a changing future; champion solutions to organizational and community challenges; and energize commitment to goals.

• incorporate public health biology - the biological and molecular context of public health - into public health practice.

•  demonstrate ethical choices, values and professional practices implicit in public health decisions; consider the effect of choices on community stewardship, equity, social justice and accountability.

• plan for the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of strategies to improve individual and community health.

• recognize system level properties that result from dynamic interactions among human and social systems and how they affect the relationships among individuals, groups, organizations,communities,and environments.