The Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine offers a program leading to the Master of Public Health Degree. The program is designed to train students in the skills needed to identify, comprehend and prepare solutions for complex problems in careers in public health and health care administration. The core curriculum, based on criteria established by the Council on Education for Public Health, has five academic areas. The five areas of knowledge are biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental health sciences, health services administration, and social and behavioral sciences. From this core group, students can select an emphasis in either Public Health and Prevention, or Administration and Management, or they may pursue a broad-based curriculum with electives from all areas.
Course work is interdisciplinary.
Faculty from the Louisiana State University Medical Center, University of New Orleans College of Business Administration, as well as adjunct lecturers from relevant health care agencies and organizations join to provide a broad based teaching environment. Classes are offered in the evening and other times which will not conflict with their schedule. Total 18 credits All students must take 4 courses in the core curriculum listed above and conduct a masters thesis research project in an area related to health services delivery or public health. These constitute 18 total credit hours of core requirements. In addition, students must take elective courses listed in one of the two areas of concentration.