Public Health, MPH

Earn your MPH 100% online at Delaware State University

The Global Health and Epidemiology MPH program is designed to equip future public health leaders with the knowledge and skills to address health challenges across diverse populations and geographic contexts. Public health historically emphasized collective actions such as improving sanitation, shelter, clean water access, and nutrition. Today, these principles expand to encompass global health disparities, disease prevention, and innovative solutions for population health improvement.

This program integrates the core functions of public health—assessment, policy development, and assurance—into a curriculum that emphasizes global health equity and epidemiological research. It prepares students to analyze and address health disparities across subpopulations, improve disease outcomes, and enhance global health systems for a healthier, more equitable world.

Key features of the program include:

1. Global Health Foundations: Comprehensive training in the social determinants of health, health disparities, and the role of global systems in public health improvement.
2. Epidemiological Expertise: Advanced methodologies to analyze disease distribution, determinants, and outcomes, enabling students to map and implement effective interventions.
3. Global Disease Surveillance: Study of global disease patterns, emerging infectious diseases, and health systems’ responses to pandemics and environmental health crises.
4. Gene-Environment Interactions: Exploration of epigenomic factors in disease causation, survival, and mortality, with a focus on population health differentials such as race and ethnicity.
5. Research and Mentorship: Guided by experienced faculty, students will conceptualize, conduct, analyze, and disseminate research to inform evidence-based public health policies.

This accelerated 24 month program provides students with a unique opportunity to contribute to the advancement of global public health and epidemiology. Graduates will emerge as skilled professionals capable of addressing critical health challenges, reducing global health inequities, and fostering resilient health systems worldwide.

Admission Requirements

Please follow DSU’s standard graduate admission process, as well as the below requirements 

• 3 professional letters of recommendation
• Official transcript from an accredited baccalaureate program (minimum GPA of 2.5)

Admission Dates:

• Regular Admission: Fall — July 15 | Spring — October 30 
• Regular Part-time Admission: Fall — August 10 | Spring — November 15

Virtual Session Dates

• Feb 10th – 5 p.m.
• Feb 24th – 5 p.m.

The link for information sessions: https://forms.office.com/r/0PG8KqjSPK

Required Courses

View the course curriculum for Global Health

View the course curriculum for Epidemiology

The MPH program is ONLINE only. Please select ONLINE for campus location when submitting your application.

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