Master of Public Health - Community and Public Health Practice

University of San Francisco

The MPH Community and Public Health Practice concentration prepares graduates to address public health issues in local and global settings using evidence-based strategies and working in collaboration with community partners. The concentration has a focus on training health professionals to design and implement community-driven and community-level strategies and interventions. Students gain skills in project planning and management, including ways to assess community needs and assets, address environmental challenges facing disadvantaged populations, and collaborate with communities to address social determinants of health. Students learn to value and encourage meaningful community participation and engagement in knowledge generation, and to identify and challenge repressive power structures impeding community self-determination. They gain qualitative and quantitative skills in research and programmatic intervention design and assessment, including management of resources and continuous improvement. Students also may choose electives on topics including maternal and child health, adolescent health, geographic information systems, aging, advanced data analysis, advanced topics in epidemiology, and health systems strengthening. The MPH Community and Public Health Practice concentration requires 45 credits to graduate. The two-year program, completed over six semesters, offers training in one concentration area: Community & Public Health Practice.