1. BUSPH Dean’s Symposium Teaching Public Health: Masters of Public Health Education
Marie Diener-West, PhD
Chair, Master of Public Health Program
Abbey-Merrell Professor of Biostatistics Education
March 28, 2018

2. Masters of Public Health Education
Growth of the MPH degree
Changing role of the MPH degree
Educational challenges and strategies for the future

3. Growth of the MPH Degree
a public health degree or certificate was offered by only 10 schools.
accredited schools of public health in the U.S.; 8 added between
schools of public health plus an additional 45 accredited programs.
schools and 116 programs, including two schools and four programs outside of the U.S. (Canada, Lebanon, Mexico and the West Indies).
total of 40,160 MPH applications (not including dual degrees) and 8,211 MPH graduates across schools and programs.

4. Changing Role of the MPH Degree
The IOM “Future of Public Health” report (1988) tasked schools of public health to develop “a greater emphasis on public health practice and to equip them to train personnel with the breadth of knowledge that matches the scope of public health.”
Education of health professionals for the 21st Century commission (Lancet 2010) - widening scope of public health
MPH interdisciplinary training: MD/MPH, MSN/MPH, DDS/MPH, DVM/MPH, PharmD/MPH, MBA/MPH, MSW/MPH

5. Educational Challenges
Distinction from the BPH and DrPH degrees
Provide interdisciplinary training in an increasing number of specialties
Provide training in skills and values that have not been historically emphasized
Tailored global MPH training

6. Creative Educational Strategies in the MPH Curriculum
Integrated core or multidisciplinary experiences
Intensive institutes
Online education
Open education initiatives

7. Global MPH Training MPH training for meeting world-wide challenges
Online learning, executive and part-time MPH degree programs
Cooperative degree programs
Supporting development of international MPH degree programs

8. Opportunities for Enhancing the Impact of the MPH Degree
Certified in Public Health exam
Graduates
Public health professionals
Job task force analysis (NBPHE 2014): knowledge and skills that are mapped to success in the workplace.

9. The MPH of the Future
Optimizing the approaches to creatively teach in different ways, with different strategies and modalities, and sharing these approaches
Sharing methods for the valid assessment of competencies and measurements of outcomes
Improving public health education will translate to better public health for all when meeting the challenges of the 21st century.