Master of Public Health
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Letter from Director
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- Competency-based degree program accredited through the Council of Education for Public Health (CEPH).
- Stresses competencies in five key public health areas – behavioral and social sciences; biostatistics; environmental health sciences, epidemiology; and health policy and management.
- Emphasizes leadership, systems thinking, health communication and cultural humility and competency.
- Clerkship is a semester-long community experience with a public health-related organization that can be completed locally, elsewhere in the United States, or abroad.
- Classes are offered across three 14-week sessions per year that begin in September and end by late July.
- Full-time students can complete the program in 16 – 20 months. Part-time students can complete the program in 24 – 48 months.
- Students enrolled in a Jefferson joint degree program (MD/MPH; JD or MJ/MPH; MSN/MPH) can complete coursework in one year with the capstone research project completed in a subsequent year.
- Classes are offered after 4PM during the week or on weekends at the Center City campus of Thomas Jefferson University.
- Students can begin the program in September or January.
Message from
David B. Nash, MD, MBA
Dean, JSPH
Robert Simmons,
DrPH, MPH, CHES
Director, Public Health Program
1015 Walnut Street
Suite 115, Curtis Building
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 503-0174
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