Urban Health MPH

Degree Awarded: Master of Public Health (MPH)
Minimum Required Credits: 42.0
Co-op Option: None
Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code: 51.2201
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code: 11-9111

About the Program

Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health’s asynchronous, online MPH in Urban Health trains students in the foundational principles of urban health research and practice. This includes how to assess and monitor the health of urban populations, understand drivers of urban health and health inequities, identify and evaluate policies and interventions to improve urban heath, and engage with multiple partners in improving urban health.

Urban Health MPH graduates have gone onto careers in public health departments, health care organizations, pharmaceuticals, non-profit organizations, higher education, and doctoral programs.

Additional Information

For more information about this program, please contact the Dornsife School of Public Health 

Admission Requirements

Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health admissions requirements can be found at: https://drexel.edu/dornsife/admissions/overview/

Degree Requirements

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Foundational Public Health Knowledge: Public Health Foundations is only required for students who do not have a degree from a CEPH accredited school. Students who have a degree from a CEPH accredited school will take an elective in place of Public Health Foundations.  

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Students can take additional 5000-9999 level electives across the university with Program Director approval.

Students may be able to use elective credits to further focus their academic work by coupling a DSPH graduate certificate. Students must have enough applicable elective credits to complete the certificate program without going beyond the required credits for the program. Students can contact their academic advisor for more information.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Apply epidemiological methods to settings and situations in public health practice  
• Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context  
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming, and software, as appropriate 
• Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy, or practice
• Compare the organization, structure, and function of health care, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings
• Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community and systemic levels  
• Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities’ health  
• Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design, implementation, or critique of public health policies or programs 
• Design a population-based policy, program, project, or intervention  
• Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management  
• Select methods to evaluate public health programs  
• Discuss the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence  
• Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes  
• Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations
• Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity 
• Apply leadership and/or management principles to address a relevant issue  
• Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges  
• Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors  
• Communicate audience-appropriate (i.e., non-academic, non-peer audience) public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation 
• Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content  
• Integrate perspectives from other sectors and/or professions to promote and advance population health  
• Apply a systems thinking tool to visually represent a public health issue in a format other than standard narrative  
• Identify and apply frameworks (including ecologic and systems approaches) integrating concepts from urban social sciences and public health to (1) understand the structural drivers of urban health; and (2) identify possible policies and interventions that can be used to improve health in urban areas. 
• Describe the main urban health challenges faced by urban areas globally,  analyze and interpret population, spatial, and environmental data to describe health in cities, and communicate findings to various audiences. 
• Identify and describe the structural and systemic drivers of urban health inequities and identify the types of multisectoral urban policies or interventions that could be used to eliminate urban  health inequities. 
• Describe how various urban policies can impact health and health equity in urban areas, including urban planning and development, housing, transportation, environmental, and food policies, among others. 
• Identify the study designs and basic analytical methods that can be used to evaluate the health and equity impacts of urban policies.