MASTERS DEGREE IN PUBLIC HEALTH (MPH)
A Masters in Public health (MPH) offers an abundance of job opportunities. If you are more interested in working out statistics, conducting research, or working face to face with people, a career in public health could be the right choice for you. Public health is for those of you who want to gain satisfaction from knowing that they are working to improve the lives of others and make a positive contribution to society.
Why Pursue a Career in Public Health?
Public health is an exciting and growing field of study. The field challenges its professionals to confront complex health issues, such as improving access to health care, controlling infectious disease, and reducing environmental hazards, violence, substance abuse, and injury.
Public health is a diverse and dynamic field. Professionals come from varying educational backgrounds and can specialize in an array of fields. A host of specialists, including teachers, journalists, researchers, administrators, environmentalists, demographers, social workers, laboratory scientists, and attorneys, work to protect the health of the public.
Public health is a field geared toward serving others. Public health professionals serve local, national, and international communities. They are leaders who meet the many exciting challenges in protecting the public’s health today and in the future.
Public health is a rewarding field. The field of public health offers great personal fulfillment - working towards improving people’s health and well being is a rewarding day’s work.
This is an interdisciplinary degree, drawing upon expertise across a wide range of subject areas and seeks to explore the complexity of Public Health issues.
Careers in Public Health
Here are a few brief explanations of some of the options in the field of public health.
Education: Public health problems involve complex and interrelated social, behavioral, legal, medical, and economic issues. If you are interested in health education, virtually every specialization within public health offers career opportunities that will make an impact on people’s lives. As an educator with a graduate degree in public health, your primary challenge will be to develop and implement interventions designed to improve overall health.
Administration/Management:
Rapid changes in both the public and private sectors of health
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