Public Health Core Requirements (16 Hours)

• PUBH 725 - Quantitative Methods for Public Health Practice  (5 Hours)
• PUBH 726 - Qualitative Methods for Public Health Practice  (3 Hours)
• PUBH 730 - Public Health Systems, Policy, and Leadership  (3 Hours)
• PUBH 735 - Practical Applications of Public Health Planning  (4 Hours)
• PUBH 678 - Transforming Health Care for the Future  (1 Hour)

Public Health Management Requirements (18 Hours)

Required Management Courses (12 Hours)

• HSPM 712 - Health Economics  (3 Hours) 
• HSPM 726 - Applied Public Health Law for Administrators  (3 Hours)
• HSPM 730 - Financing of Health Care  (3 Hours)
• HSPM 768 - Health Services Administration II ​ (3 Hours)

Management Electives (6 Hours)

• Two courses selected in consultation with advisor; possible courses include the following:
  • HSPM 706 - Health and Economic Development: Interrelationships among health, poverty and economic progress  
  • HSPM 709 - Perspectives in Rural Health   
  • HSPM 713 - Information Systems in Health Administration  
  • HSPM 714 - Perspectives in Community Health Organizations  
  • HSPM 716 - Quantitative Methods for Health Administration  
  • HSPM 764 - Long-Term Care Administration  
  • HSPM 769 - Organizational Behavior  
  • HSPM 774 - Quality Management in Healthcare  
  • HSPM 776 - Physician Practice Management  
  • HSPM 772 - International Health  
  • HSPM 777 - Healthcare Policy and Principles of Health Insurance  

Public Health and Healthcare Policy Requirements (6 Hours)

• HSPM 727 - Advancing Public Health Policy  
• One Policy Elective from the following:
  • HSPM 711 - Health Politics   
  • HPEB 820 - Public Health Advocacy and Policy  
  • POLI 774 - The Public Policy Process   
  • POLI 780 - Theories of Comparative Politics  
  • POLI 721 - Race and Public Policy  
  • Another course selected in consultation with advisor

Practice Experience and Capstone Requirements (5 Hours)

• HSPM 788 - Public Health Practice Experience  (3 Hours)
• HSPM 796 - Health Services Policy and Management MPH Capstone Course   (2 Hours)

Final Examination

M.P.H. candidates must complete and submit an acceptable written report on the residency. Approval of the report must be by the faculty advisor, a second reader, and the preceptor at the residency site. An oral presentation of the report is required after the approval of the document. The student must also complete and submit departmental and school evaluations.

Graduate Assistantship

All full-time M.H.A. and M.P.H. students are expected to work as graduate assistants in health service organizations in the community to acquire work experience and enrich the learning process through on-the-job application of concepts and techniques learned in the classroom. To qualify for an assistantship, a student must be fully admitted to a degree program, be enrolled as a full-time student, and maintain a 3.00 GPA.

Dual Degrees

The Department of Health Services Policy and Management and the College of Social Work, School of Law and Department of Political Science offer coordinated programs that lead to a dual degree. The requirements for the M.P.H. or M.H.A. portion of each dual degree program are the same as shown above. The M.P.A., M.S.W. and J.D. portions of the dual degree programs are determined by the respective schools and college. Some courses do fulfill requirements for both portions of the dual degree. A dual degree program thus typically requires fewer semester hours in total than if the two programs were taken separately.