The mission of the University of Cincinnati's Master of Public Health (MPH) program is to prepare students to provide leadership in public health practice and research through generating, evaluating, and applying evidence to improve the public's health. This education will be provided from a multidisciplinary perspective, employing active-learning strategies, and in collaboration with the full array of community institutions and organizations involved in the health of the public.

Why Earn a Public Health Degree? 
Public health is an exciting and growing field of study. The field challenges its professionals to address complex health issues, such as improving access to health care, controlling infectious disease, and reducing environmental hazards, reducing violence, reducing substance abuse, and injury reduction.

Public health is a diverse and dynamic field. Public Health professionals come from varying educational backgrounds and can specialize in an array of fields. A host of specialists, including teachers, journalists, researchers, administrators, environmentalists, demographers, social workers, laboratory scientists, and attorneys, work to protect the health of the public. 

Public health is a field geared toward serving others. Public health professionals serve local, national, and international communities. They are leaders who meet the many exciting challenges in assuring  the public's health today and in the future.

Who Should Consider a Degree in Public Health? 
Public health is a field that offers an abundance of job opportunities to suit a variety of interests and skills. Whether you are interested in analyzing data, conducting research, or working with people, there is a place for you in the field of public health. Recent college graduates and those that have been in the field for years have something to offer and to gain in this field. Public health is ideal for those that gain satisfaction knowing that they are working to improve the lives of others. 

For more information on how a public health degree may be the right choice for you, we recommend you visit www.whatispublichealth.org, or contact any of the individuals named at the bottom of this page. 

Why Get Your MPH at Cincinnati? 
The new MPH Program at the University of Cincinnati takes advantage of a unique combination of faculty and institutional strength that cannot be duplicated:

• An innovative mission and a curriculum designed to impart practical skills and competencies as well as theoretical knowledge will ensure the applicability of your learning to your goals.
• World-class faculty from the Colleges of Medicine, Education, Nursing, Arts & Sciences, Business, Law and other disciplines across both an academic health center and a major urban research university, including the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, will be your instructors and mentors. The University of Cincinnati is a top 25 public research university.
• Relationships with strong, academically-oriented public health departments and community health agencies serving the approximately 2.5 million people of southwest Ohio, southeast Indiana and northern Kentucky ensure a "real-world" orientation to your studies.
• Connections with Greater Cincinnati-area federal government resources such as CDC/NIOSH and EPA Breidenbach Research Labs, and private-sector resources such as Proctor & Gamble, the world's largest consumer-goods health and wellness company, ensure a breadth of student practicum placements and capstone opportunities.
• A new and developing program means smaller class sizes and a creative, problem-solving approach to student questions and problems ? "let's find a way to make this happen" rather than "we've never done things that way."
• A late afternoon / early evening course schedule which accommodates students with daytime responsibilities and allows for either full-time or part-time study.