The Department of Community Health, Brown University School of Medicine, is proud to announce the initiation of the Masters in Public Health degree program, the first and, to date only such program in Rhode Island. The MPH Program at Brown was established in response to the tremendous increase in interest in applied public health shown in recent years by Brown undergraduate, graduate, and medical students, and by health professionals at Brown and in the community.
Public health means many things to many people.
This effort involves the disciplines of medicine, health services research, and public health. For too long these disciplines have operated in parallel, fostering myths that academic medical centers and research departments do little that is applied, and that public health institutions do little that is rigorous. The MPH Program at Brown dispels these myths by uniting the talents and expertise of health professionals from the Brown University School of Medicine, the Department of Community Health, and the Rhode Island Department of Health, for the development and implementation of this degree program. The decisions that go into the development and translation of the evidence base in public health draw upon the fields of epidemiology, statistics, sociology, ethics, economics, political science, health education, and many others for their solutions. The MPH Program at Brown employs these fields, and others, in that process.