Oakland University's Master of Public Health turns the whole community into your classroom. You’ll tackle real-world public health challenges through our MPH degree’s unique community-based participatory research model, working face to face with local residents, public health officials, nonprofit advocates, and health care providers. This hands-on approach lets you serve the community while you’re earning your MPH degree, making a real difference in public health and well-being. Our MPH program cultivates outstanding communicators, collaborators, and problem-solvers who excel in multicultural settings and are comfortable with advanced data. Demand for all of these skills is rising sharply, making our MPH degree a powerful first step toward a public health career in research, advocacy, education, administration, care delivery, or a related field.
Oakland University's Master of Public Health turns the whole community into your classroom. You’ll tackle real-world public health challenges through our MPH degree’s unique community-based participatory research model, working face to face with local residents, public health officials, nonprofit advocates, and health care providers. This hands-on approach lets you serve the community while you’re earning your MPH degree, making a real difference in public health and well-being. Our MPH program cultivates outstanding communicators, collaborators, and problem-solvers who excel in multicultural settings and are comfortable with advanced data. Demand for all of these skills is rising sharply, making our MPH degree a powerful first step toward a public health career in research, advocacy, education, administration, care delivery, or a related field.
Our extensive partnerships in Southeast Michigan create unique opportunities for students in our MPH degree. You’ll interact with and learn from a wide range of public health stakeholders, acquiring an exceptionally broad perspective that equips you for all kinds of public health careers. Oakland University’s medical school adds further value to our MPH program, providing you with access to medical experts, data, clinics, and research opportunities.
Demand for MPH graduates is expanding rapidly. An aging population, reforms to health care laws, evolving technologies, and other factors have created a broad need for public health professionals to evaluate new programs, measure outcomes, and chart a course for the future. You may find public health career opportunities with government agencies, nonprofit organizations, health care networks, insurers, pharmaceutical companies, universities, and many other types of employers. MPH graduates commonly pursue careers in:
Oakland University’s MPH degree is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). The curriculum includes required courses in health policy, health behavior and education, statistics, epidemiology, and environmental health.
Our MPH program features two professional development components: a semester-long practicum with a public health organization in the community, and a capstone project based on independent research, data analysis, and public presentation.
Elective courses enable you to align the MPH program with your career goals. Course subjects include (but are not limited to):