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JD/MPH CURRICULUM

University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Department of Health Policy and Management and the
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
JD/MPH Joint Degree program

April 2007
I.  GSPH CORE CURRICULUM - required
  EPID 2110 3 cr. Principles of Epidemiology
  BIOS 2011 3 cr. Principles of Statistical Reasoning
  BCHS 2509 3 cr. Social and Behavioral Science and Public Health
  EOH 2013 3 cr. Environmental Health and Disease
  PH 2014 1 cr. Public Health Overview
  PH 2015 2 cr. Public Health Biology
  PH 2016 2 cr. Capstone: Problem Solving in Public Health
  Subtotal 17 cr.  
II. MPH-HPM CORE CURRICULUM - required
  HPM 2105 (2 cr.) Health and Medical Care Organizations
  HPM 2001 (3 cr.) Introduction to Leadership, Management, and Policy for Public Health
OR may substitute
  HPM 2081 (3 cr.) Public Health Agency Management
  HPM 2135 (2 cr.) Health Policy
  HPM 2300 (3 cr.) Health Law Field Experience
  HPM 2037 (2 cr.) Master Essay: Credit fulfilled by meeting School of Law Upper-level writing requirement
  HPM 2131 (2 cr.)  Public Health Law and Ethics
  Subtotal  14 cr.  
III. HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT TRACK CURRICULUM
(option A)
  HPM 2012 (3 cr.) Financial Management Foundations
  HPM 2055 (3 cr.) Managing Health Programs and Projects
  HPM 2145 (2 cr.) Marketing Health Services
  HPM 2049 (2 cr.) Human Resource Management
  HPM 2029 (2 cr.) HMIS
  HPM 2064 (2 cr.) Health Policy Analysis
  Must select 6 cr.  
III. PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES TRACK CURRICULUM
(option B)
  BCHS 2563 (3 cr.) Community Health Assessment
  BCHS 2520 (3 cr.) Theories of Health Behavior and Health Education
  BCHS 2558 (3 cr.) Health Program Evaluation
  BCHS 2579 (2 cr.) Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response
  BCHS 2599 (3 cr.) Public Health Approach to Women’s Health
  EOH 2180  (1 cr.) Introduction to Risk Sciences
  EPID 2160 (2 cr.) Epidemiology of Infectious Disease
  EPID 2161 (1 cr.) Methods of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology
  EPID 2220 (2 cr.) Environmental Epidemiology
  EPID 2260 (2 cr.) Epidemiologic Basis of Disease Control
  Must select (6 cr.)  
Total-MPH/GSPH 37 cr. GSPH and HPM core and 6 cr. from Option A or B
Total-MPH/LAW 8 cr. School of Law credits accepted
(plus 2 credits for HPM 2037 fulfilled by completion of Upper-level writing requirement at School of Law)
TOTAL-MPH 45 cr. Credit change effective 2007/08

For more information please contact:

Patricia M. Sweeney, JD, MPH, RN
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Graduate School of Public Health
Department of Health Policy & Management and
130 DeSoto Street, A734
Pittsburgh, PA  15261
Phone: 412-383-2231
Fax:     412-383-2228
psweeney@pitt.edu





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