The Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program prepares students to serve as public health professionals and leaders in government, business, industry, higher education, volunteer agencies, and public and private sector health care settings. The program is taught by expert, engaged faculty and is based on the core competencies that guide the Certified Public Health professional (CPH) process for students graduating from accredited programs of public health. After completing the MPH program students will be prepared to successfully pursue this new certification that is quickly becoming the expectation for the nation’s leading public health employers.
Department chair Mohammad Torabi (l, front), M.P.H. faculty Michael Reece (r, front), and graduate students stop at the equator during a summer research and practice experience with academic and community partners at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya.
Indiana University-Bloomington MPH Program Mission Statement:
The Master of Public Health (MPH) program has as its mission the preparation of public health professionals through coursework and engagement in a culture of research and practice that promotes the attainment of knowledge and skills necessary to respond to public health needs across a broad and diverse range of communities, health issues, and settings.
MPH Program Goals by Major Function:The MPH Program has organized its goals across the seven major functions of the program, as described below:
Major Function 1: Prepare Students to Enter the Public Health Workforce Goal| Goal: | Deliver a comprehensive public health curriculum that ensures each MPH students' achievement of public health knowledge and skills are consistent with established competencies and contemporary issues facing the public health workforce. |
Major Function 2: Conduct and Disseminate Public Health Research
| Goal: | Develop and sustain an academic environment that facilitates research that is rigorous, theory-based, focused on contemporary public health issues, engages and trains students, uses participatory methods to engage community partners, and disseminates research findings for the benefit of public health practice. |
Major Function 3: Engage Faculty, Staff and Students in Public Health Service
| Goal: | Actively engage students and faculty with public health institutions at the local, state, national, and international levels to facilitate a co-learning process focused on a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and skills. |
Major Function 4: Cultivate a Diverse Faculty and Staff with Broad Expertise in Public Health
| Goal: | Recruit, retain, and foster the development of faculty and professional staff who are diverse with regard to culture, ethnicity, gender, professional background, and areas of expertise. |
Major Function 5: Cultivate A Diverse Student Body
| Goal: | Recruit, retain, and foster the development of students who are diverse with regard to culture, ethnicity, gender, academic backgrounds, and goals related to public health. |
Major Function 6: Ensure Access to and Facilitate Use of State-of-the-Art Technology
| Goal: | Ensure that faculty, staff, and students have the knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to effectively navigate evolving technology resources and to effectively incorporate such technology into their public health teaching, research and service activities. |
Major Function 7: Evaluate the Public Health Program
| Goal: | On an ongoing basis, assess the extent to which the objectives of the MPH Program are attained through formative, process, and outcome evaluation. |
MPH Program Goals (pdf)
MPH Program Competencies (pdf)
Core Competencies
Public Health Leadership and Practice
Public Health Research
For more information, contact:
Dr. JoAnne Bunnage, Ph.D., M.S.A., M.Ed.
Telephone: (812) 855-3627
E-mail:
Department of Applied Health Science
Indiana University
HPER Room 116
1025 E. Seventh Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7109
