Tailor Your Public Health Education

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact in the world of public health? At Tufts University, our Master of Public Health (MPH) program offers six specialized concentrations that empower you to delve deeper into specific areas of interest while enhancing your core public health skills.

• Flexible Learning Options: With both on-campus and online formats, you can tailor your education to fit your lifestyle while gaining the skills needed to excel in public health.

• Career Advancement: Equip yourself with in-demand skills that enhance your employability in various public health sectors, including government, non-profit organizations, academia, and health care.

• Comprehensive Curriculum: Regardless of the concentration you choose, our program combines theoretical foundations with practical applications, ensuring you are well-prepared for real-world challenges in public health.

• Expert Faculty: Learn from leading experts in the field who bring a wealth of knowledge and research experience, providing insights that enrich your education.

Why Choose Tufts MPH

Transform Data into Actionable Insights
In the fast-evolving field of public health, the ability to collect, analyze, and interpret data is paramount.

This concentration emphasizes the practical application of epidemiologic and biostatistical methodologies to inform public health policy and practice. Students will also gain a strong theoretical foundation, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of the concepts that drive effective public health interventions.

By choosing the Epidemiology & Biostatistics concentration at Tufts, you’ll gain the analytical skills and practical knowledge necessary to drive evidence-based public health solutions and contribute to the betterment of communities. 

• Causal Framework Development: Use epidemiologic tools to conceptualize and analyze the occurrence and determinants of public health problems.
  
  
• Data Reproducibility: Ensure reproducibility in all phases of data handling, from conceptualization to dissemination.
  
  
• Bias Minimization: Apply appropriate epidemiologic designs and statistical analysis techniques to reduce bias in public health studies.
  
  
• Instrument Design: Implement best practices for designing data collection instruments tailored to public health needs.
  
  
• Evidence Critique: Evaluate epidemiologic evidence and available data within the context of specific public health challenges.
  
  
• Data Visualization: Present data-driven patterns or associations effectively to diverse audiences.

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Address Health Challenges Without Borders
The Global Health Science and Practice concentration equips students to address health issues that cross national boundaries, emphasizing health equity and justice. You’ll gain the skills to analyze global health challenges, design effective public health interventions, and develop policies that improve health outcomes for diverse populations.

Your coursework spans infectious and chronic diseases, health systems strengthening, global health governance, and social determinants of health, alongside rigorous training in implementation science and research methods. Collaborating across cultures prepares you for impactful careers in international organizations, non-profits, government, and academia.

Specific areas of interest across our global health faculty, which reflect in our curriculum, include One Health and pandemic preparedness; infectious diseases epidemiology; water, sanitation, and hygiene; global mental health, and maternal and child health.

• Global Health Disparities: Evaluate differences in drivers of disease, risk factors, or health outcomes worldwide, with a focus on disparities across global settings.
  
  
• Ethical Collaboration: Apply concepts and approaches for forming ethical global collaborations based on allyship, reflecting an understanding of contemporary discourses on decolonizing global health.
  
  
• Role Assessment: Assess the roles of international and community-based public health organizations in implementing global public health interventions and programs.
  
  
• Methodological Approaches: Utilize qualitative or quantitative methods for collecting or analyzing data, considering unique challenges in data management, security, and dissemination in global settings.
  
  
• Research Synthesis: Implement systematic approaches to synthesize and interpret research findings on global health topics.
  
  
• Implementation Science: Apply an implementation science theory, model, or framework to address health care delivery or public health challenges in a global context.

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Transform Healthcare for Better Outcomes
The Health Management and Policy concentration at Tufts University’s MPH program empowers students to reshape the healthcare system, focusing on individual and population health while delivering equitable, patient-centered care. You’ll gain in-depth knowledge of healthcare systems, health policy, and health economics, along with essential skills in policy analysis, health law, and management.

Our curriculum, grounded in public health fundamentals, enables you to tackle disparities in healthcare access, affordability, and quality. 

Graduates are well-prepared for impactful careers in healthcare administration, government, policy advocacy, and consulting, addressing critical issues like health equity.

• Management Strategies: Develop processes to improve health organization performance.
  
  
• Healthcare Challenges: Analyze how organizational and financial issues in the U.S. affect health outcomes.
  
  
• Disparity Solutions: Identify strategies to reduce disparities in healthcare access, cost, and quality.
  
  
• Policy Recommendations: Generate actionable recommendations for policy change at various levels.
  
  
• Analytical Techniques: Apply quantitative and qualitative methods to address health equity and policy issues.
  
  
• Legal Impact Assessment: Evaluate how laws and regulations influence public health practice and healthcare delivery.

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Customize Your Path in Public Health
The Individualized concentration at Tufts University emphasizes our commitment to customizing your MPH experience to fit your unique needs and interests. This concentration provides a well-rounded understanding of foundational public health concepts while allowing you to design your own focus area.

Ideal for recent graduates exploring the public health field or working professionals transitioning into this vital sector, the Individualized concentration offers the flexibility to balance your existing commitments with your academic goals.

After completing the core curriculum, you’ll have the freedom to select electives that align with your evolving interests and career aspirations. Students typically propose their Individualized concentration by the end of their first semester, ensuring a personalized educational pathway.

• Personalized Guidance: Our dedicated advisors will guide students along the way, ensuring they make informed decisions about their academic and professional development, and stay on track to graduation. Whether a student chooses to graduate with the individualized concentration or discover another concentration that better suits their passions, they have the flexibility to switch concentrations within our program.

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Empowering Health Through Nutrition
The Nutrition concentration in the Tufts University MPH program equips students with practical methods for nutrition program and policy assessment, development, and evaluation, focusing on diverse and vulnerable populations. 

You will explore the connections between macronutrients, micronutrients, food intake patterns, and health outcomes, while building essential skills for promoting healthy eating and active living. 

This concentration is offered in collaboration with the Tufts University Gerald J. and Dorothy J. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

• Healthy Eating Foundations: Identify key components of healthy eating to inform personal, programmatic, and policy decisions that promote health.
  
  
• Food Access Analysis: Explain how access to food and dietary choices impact individual and population health.
  
  
• Program Evaluation: Evaluate nutrition-related issues, programs, and policies to assess their effectiveness.
  
  
• Evidence-Based Approaches: Apply relevant theories and quality improvement methods to address nutrition and active living challenges.
  
  
• Social Equity Awareness: Describe how systemic racism and social inequities influence food and nutrition issues.

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Advancing Community Health Through Effective Strategies
The Population Health Promotion concentration at Tufts University provides students with a comprehensive foundation in the science, theory, and practice of health promotion within a population-based framework. 

The curriculum emphasizes real-world applications of behavior change science, equipping students with the skills to develop, adapt, implement, and evaluate effective programs and messages aimed at achieving a wide range of public health goals, from information dissemination to behavior change.

Our program instills a lifelong commitment to the highest ethical standards in public health practice, ensuring you are well-prepared to make a meaningful impact.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Identify key stakeholders and incorporate their perspectives into public health interventions.
  
  
• Formative Research: Develop qualitative questions to understand audience perspectives and inform program design.
  
  
• Behavior Change Application: Use behavior change theory to design and evaluate population-based interventions.
  
  
• Social Marketing Principles: Apply social marketing techniques to effectively promote behavior change.
  
  
• Addressing Inequities: Tackle structural racism and discrimination within public health programs.
  
  
• Program Adaptation: Select and adapt existing public health interventions for implementation in diverse settings.

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