Overview

Location information, now routinely collected with health data and also obtainable from advancing technologies, is providing a gateway for researchers and practitioners to incorporate the power of geography into public health.

Maps have become a powerful and popular mechanism for public health research and practice, not only for conveying information and synthesizing data from multiple sources, but for leading to new and novel directions for analyzing and interpreting public health data.

Careers

Spatial analysis is an emerging field, with advancing technologies and evolving applications that are vast and paramount to addressing public health issues.

The carefully sequenced courses of the Spatial Analysis for Public Health program offered at Johns Hopkins University meet the increasing demand for this expertise through the comprehensive spatial science paradigm, which brings together components of spatial data, GIS and spatial statistics.

Building on foundations in epidemiology and biostatistics, graduates will be able to effectively design and conduct public health-related spatial analysis by applying knowledge and tools learned in the program.

Applications of spatial analysis are impacting public health both locally and globally. Some examples:

Characterizing environmental conditions such as traffic, poverty, climate and water quality

Characterizing accessibility to care, healthy/unhealthy food outlets, and pollution sources

Providing tools for improved air pollution exposure assessment

Linking characterizations of the environment to changes in health

Identifying and evaluating suspected cancer clusters

Mapping the risk of malaria or other infectious diseases

Job titles:

Environmental Health Officer/Specialist

Geospatial Analyst/Statistician

Information Management Officer

Epidemiologist

Spatial Science Manager

Geospatial Database Administrator

Programme Structure

Courses included:

The curriculum prepares students to effectively collect, map and interpret geographic information to test and refine hypotheses to answer a set of questions within the public health sector.

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-31 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

50 SCH

50.5

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Baltimore, United States

Disciplines

Public Health Geographical Information Systems (GIS) View 514 other Masters in Public Health in United States

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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General requirements

All programs require the equivalent of a four-year U.S. bachelor's degree. Please check your program's application requirements and deadlines.

All supporting documents (letters of recommendation, transcripts and/or credential evaluations, letters or recommendation, and test scores) must be official.

Official documents are sent directly from one organizational authority to another. Documents and letters of recommendation that have been in the possession of the applicant or another person are not official.

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22000 USD / year

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22000 USD / year

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Funding

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