On thinking about a degree and/or career in public health: What does it mean to consider the health of a group instead of an individual? Jim Trostle, PhD MPH Professor and Chair, Anthropology Dept., Trinity and Professor of Public Health, University of Chile, Santiago

How they get there (not just via public health school)    What it is Who does it, and why How they get there (not just via public health school) How you can get there (via public health school) What to do to get into a public health school What ELSE to do besides public health school?

Standard Public Health Degrees and Programs (example from UC Berkeley) Biostatistics (MPH, MA, PhD) Community Health Sciences Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) Environmental Health Sciences (MPH, PhD) Epidemiology (MPH, MS, PhD) Epidemiology/Biostatistics (MPH) Health & Social Behavior (MPH) Health Policy & Management (MPH) Health Policy (PhD) Infectious Diseases & Vaccinology (MPH; PhD in Infectious Diseases & Immunity) Interdisciplinary (MPH) Maternal & Child Health (MPH) Public Health Nutrition (MPH)

M.P.H. Overview Two-Year M.P.H. Program Areas of study: - Biostatics - Chronic Disease Epidemiology - Environmental Health Sciences - Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases - Health Care Management - Health Policy - Social and Behavioral Sciences 20 course units (4 semesters) Summer internship Master’s thesis or capstone course

Somewhat Arbitrary Rankings of Public Health Schools #1 Johns Hopkins University  Baltimore, MD 4.8 #2Tie Harvard University  Boston, MA 4.7 University of North Carolina—​Chapel Hill  Chapel Hill, NC #4 University of Michigan—​Ann Arbor  Ann Arbor, MI 4.5 #5 Columbia University  New York, NY 4.4 #6 University of Washington  Seattle, WA 4.2 #7 Emory University  Atlanta, GA 4.1 #8 University of Minnesota  Minneapolis, MN 4.0 #9 University of California—​Berkeley  Berkeley, CA 3.9

Ranking Universities by R&D Expenditures, 2014 (NSF Data) Institution Rank R&D $ (‘000) Johns Hopkins University 1 2,242,478 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2 1,349,262 University of Washington, Seattle 3 1,176,340 U. of No. Carolina at Chapel Hill 8 989,766 University of California, Los Angeles 10 948,197 Harvard University 11 933,975 Columbia University 13 890,642 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 15 876,870 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 16 856,806 Ohio State University, The 19 815,075 Total R&D expenditures 67,154,642

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Ranking Universities by R&D Expenditures, 2014 (NSF Data) Institution Rank Percentile R&D expenditures (‘000) Johns Hopkins University 1 1 2,242,478 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2 1.2 1,349,262 University of Washington, Seattle 3 1.3 1,176,340 University of Wisconsin-Madison 4 1.5 1,108,564 University of California, San Francisco 5 1.6 1,084,031 University of California, San Diego 6 1.8 1,067,388 Duke University 7 1.9 1,036,813 U. of No. Carolina at Chapel Hill 8 2.1 989,766 Stanford University 9 2.3 959,247 University of California, Los Angeles 10 2.4 948,197 Harvard University 11 2.6 933,975 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 12 2.7 908,017 Columbia University 13 2.9 890,642 Cornell University 14 3 883,292 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 15 3.2 876,870 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 16 3.4 856,806 Texas A&M University, College Station 17 3.5 854,214 University of Pennsylvania 18 3.7 828,350 Ohio State University, The 19 3.8 815,075 Pennsylvania State University 20 4 800,773 Total R&D expenditures 67,154,642