1. 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

2. 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?

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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 ,197 Harvard University ,975 Columbia University ,642 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis ,870 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh ,806 Ohio State University, The ,075 Total R&D expenditures 67,154,642

9. aspph. org; http://www. aspph. org/program-finder/ sophas. org apha
aspph.org; sophas.org apha.org ajph.org publichealthjobs.org cdc.gov To The Dean Who Wants to Create an Undergraduate Public Health Major: Consider a Liberal Arts Approach dean-who-wants-to-create-an-undergraduate-public-health-major-consider- a-liberal-arts-81e637af66c6#.7tioglbxk

11. 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 ,349,262 University of Washington, Seattle ,176,340 University of Wisconsin-Madison ,108,564 University of California, San Francisco ,084,031 University of California, San Diego ,067,388 Duke University ,036,813 U. of No. Carolina at Chapel Hill ,766 Stanford University ,247 University of California, Los Angeles ,197 Harvard University ,975 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ,017 Columbia University ,642 Cornell University ,292 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis ,870 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh ,806 Texas A&M University, College Station ,214 University of Pennsylvania ,350 Ohio State University, The ,075 Pennsylvania State University ,773 Total R&D expenditures 67,154,642