Discover Our Concentrations

 

At WSPH, your degree program gives you deep expertise in your field - but you don't have to stop there. 

Concentrations let you build a secondary focus alongside your degree, at no extra cost. 

Courses taken within a Concentration count toward your elective requirements, so there are no additional credit hours, just a sharper professional profile.

Three Concentrations are currently available.

The MCH Concentration is ideal for students who intend to work toward the health and well-being of mothers, children, and families, or in the field of reproductive health and family planning. Faculty conduct cross-cutting research that combines MCH with issues of health equity, implementation science, violence prevention, mental health care, disaster management, and more.

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The Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ID Epi) Concentration is transdisciplinary, emphasizing the integration of infectious disease biology with rigorous epidemiologic methods. Students will learn how pathogens interact with human hosts and how these biological mechanisms shape patterns of transmission, contribute to risk, and inform infection control strategies.

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The Disaster Management Concentration is ideal for students seeking to acquire skills working within the managemement structure and operational models unique to disasters, locally to globally. Students gain skills to implement population-based interventions to protect communities, particularly vulnerable populations, from natural, accidental, and intentional disasters.

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More areas will be added in future semesters. 

A few things to know: 

  • Concentrations are open to current MPH and MSPH students only. 
  • Questions? Reach out to your Success Advisor.

 

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