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Public health professionals observe changes to community health and safety, measuring the impact of disease and illness and working to improve access to health care resources, and addressing inequities in care delivery.
Regis College’s online Master of Public Health program can prepare you to meet these emerging challenges on a local, state, or national level.
Overview
Regis offers a diverse community of passionate people who appreciate cultural differences and value what can be learned from each other. Students who seek an online MPH degree from Regis College care for their communities, care for the well-being of others, and strive to make a difference in the world around them.
Our commitment to social justice and lifelong learning isn’t summed up in one lecture; it’s woven into each course of the online MPH program.
Overview
Our online MPH degree is designed to help you make lasting change in health care by leading and managing organizations to increase access to high-quality health care for all people. At Regis, you can choose to focus your MPH in either Epidemiology or Health Policy and Management—and complete coursework in as few as seven semesters.
Plus, Regis offers benefits and discounts for military and veteran students.
Overview
Earning an online MPH degree from Regis can give you the specialized knowledge and hands-on experience to thrive in a number of critically in-demand positions. With two concentrations to choose from, you can develop your professional path in a variety of areas, focusing on your goals.
Public health careers in epidemiology and health policy and management exist in public, private, corporate, and government sectors, giving you a great deal of flexibility in pursuing your professional interests.
Overview
Regis College intentionally designed our online MPH programs for working adults featuring accessible online coursework and supportive faculty. Paired with a 270-hour field placement, you can build the technical knowledge and practical experience to succeed.
Earning your online Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the School of Health Sciences at Regis College can empower you to explore new career opportunities and have a direct impact in this critical field.
You’ll have the opportunity to study leading public health issues, explore cutting-edge techniques in preventing illness, and build the leadership skills to influence change and transform health and wellness on a societal level.
Program Details
We designed our MPH program curriculum to help you utilize evidence-based approaches to public health issues. Learn to analyze how societal factors can play a role in achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels.
The program comprises 42 credits including foundational courses, specialization courses, a capstone, and a field practicum. Half of the coursework is in your area of specialization, so you can make an impact in the area of your choice as soon as you graduate.
Designed to help you lead in public health
Our online MPH curriculum comprises 42 credit hours and can be completed in as few as seven semesters. Through outcomes-focused coursework, our expert faculty will help you learn how to advocate for policy change, improved health outcomes, shared vision, social change, and community solutions to address organizational and community challenges.
Choose from two in-demand concentrations—Epidemiology or Health Policy and Management—and discover ways to promote health research and data that will improve diverse communities’ health outcomes
PBH 600 Biostatistics
In this course, the learner explores basic research methods to analyze, design, and collect quantitative data. The learner applies principles of biostatistical analysis, epidemiological analysis, and design and analysis of clinical trials. The learner will also interpret basic statistical information to identify solutions for public health issues.
HP 601 Health Ethics and Law
This course introduces students to the complex area of health ethics and law. Ethical and legal issues related to organizational and professional responsibility, patient rights and informed consent, reproduction and human genetics, end-of-life care, duty to treat and to warn, and clinical research and experimentation are among the areas of areas of study and discussion.
PBH 635 Contemporary Issues in Environmental Health
This course provides a foundation to the ecological basis of health and disease. The global environmental aspects of health are addressed, including the biological, physical, and chemical factors that affect the health of organizations and communities. Hazardous agents found in our environments are reviewed for their potential health effects, and procedures for prevention of occupational illnesses and injuries are examined.
PBH 633 Epidemiological Methods
This course provides the learner with an introduction to the skills needed by public health professionals to critically interpret disease. The main concepts of this course will cover distributions and determinants of disease, disabilities, injury, and death in human populations. This course provides an opportunity for learners to apply epidemiology concepts to case studies.
HP 602 Concepts in Health Administration
This is an introductory course to the field of health administration. Topics include health care leadership and management, strategic planning, human resources, marketing, quality management, and cultural competency/diversity in healthcare organizations.
PBH 611 Social and Behavioral Sciences
In this course, the learner explores different public health behavioral models that are used for promoting healthy behavior change. The learner also breaks down community and social factors, including race, education, and economics, that may contribute to public health problems.
PBH 632 Applied Practice Experience
This course is taken at the end of the program of study and provides students with the opportunity to apply skills and knowledge obtained in both core and principal courses to the practice of public health under the guidance of a preceptor and one of the MPH practicum course faculty.
PBH 636 Integrated Learning Experience – Capstone
The main purpose of this course is to provide the culminating, integrative curricular experience for students enrolled in the program during their last semester prior to graduation. The course draws on students’ prior training in the five core areas of public health (i.e., Social and Behavioral Sciences, Biostatistics, Epidemiological Methods, Concepts in Health Administration and Contemporary Issues in Environmental Health); their additional required course work in one of two tracks (Epidemiology or Health Policy and Management); and their real-world experience gained in the field prior to their graduation.
PBH 614 Observational and Interventional Study Design
In this course, we will explore observational and interventional study design types. Observational studies in epidemiology draw inferences from a sample where the researcher is not in control and are often retrospective and used to assess potential causation in an exposure-outcome relationship. Interventional studies are often prospective and are tailored to evaluate clinical outcomes. The commonly used designs to study health outcomes among humans, such as cohort, case-control, ecological and cross-sectional and case studies will be discussed.
PBH 615 Data Management and Analysis
The course will expose students to basic concepts that are needed to use SPSS for epidemiological research. The goal will be to familiarize students with various analytic methods and their uses to answer specific epidemiologic research questions. It will cover conduct of basic epidemiologic data and its management, and statistical analysis of data from epidemiologic investigations. Brief reviews of relevant statistical methods, their applications in epidemiologic research, and interpretation of results will be covered step by step in this course. Students will be provided with several data sets from epidemiologic studies and will be asked to conduct analyses of these data.
PBH 616 Advanced Analysis of Epidemiologic Studies
The course will expose students to advanced concepts that are needed to use SPSS for epidemiological research. The goal will be to expose students to various analytic methods and their uses to answer specific epidemiologic research questions. It will cover the conduct of advanced epidemiologic data and its management, as well as statistical analysis of data from epidemiologic investigations. This course will deepen students' knowledge of epidemiological principles.
PBH 617 Infectious Disease Epidemiology
This course covers the importance and basic methods for infectious disease epidemiology for selected diseases. The methods will include outbreak investigations, disease surveillance, case-control studies, cohort studies, and cross-sectional studies. Distribution, risk factors and causes, transmission, and control of selected infectious diseases will be covered including interpretation of epidemiological data. Program evaluations in infectious disease settings and rates and measures will be covered as well.
PBH 618 Chronic Disease Epidemiology
This course provides an overview of some chronic diseases and will highlight the key methodological issues surrounding studies of such chronic diseases. It will give the students the opportunity to apply epidemiologic methods in understanding chronic diseases problems. Chronic diseases account for six of the top seven causes of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Various chronic diseases will be studied including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, asthma, chronic lung disease and arthritis among others. The more epidemiology students understand about these diseases, the better they will be able to continue to study them effectively and attempt to influence public policy.
PBH 619 Advanced Epidemiologic Methods
The course covers principles and methods of epidemiology, including descriptive and analytic approaches to assessing the distributions of health, disease, and injury in populations and factors that influence those distributions. The emphasis is on developing an understanding of concepts rather than quantitative methods, although basic calculations are involved. In addition, epidemiologic issues in the interface with public health policy will be studied. The course will consist of readings and critical review of epidemiology articles.
PBH 622 Health Policy Analysis
The course provides an overview of the U.S. health care delivery system and current policy challenges (i.e., chronic disease, health equity, access to care, and healthcare reform) and provides an introduction to policy analysis tools useful for defining policy problems, assessing alternative solutions, and examining effects of health policies. The framework used for achieving these aims will be to consider public health policy from the perspective of the main stakeholders in the system: patients, providers, health plans, and payers.
HP 609 Health Policy, Politics and Perspectives
This course examines U.S. health care policy and the political challenges related to delivery, cost, quality, and access to care. The course is in seminar format which allows students to observe the policy-making process and the role of government and private stakeholders in the financing and delivery of services through a field experience attending health policy-related events and meetings.
HP 622 Economics of Health Care
This course uses economic analysis to help understand the economic challenges confronting our health care system. Topics include supply and demand in health care, market forces, health reform, and health care financing.
Prerequisites: HP 602, HP 609 or permission of the program director
PBH 623 Contemporary Issues, Special Populations and Policies
The health of special populations depends on not only the characteristics and health behaviors of individuals but the social, economic, and physical environments in which they live and the health care systems that provide their medical care. This course will explore the current evidence regarding the role of these factors as determinants of population health and identify emerging issues. The role of public policy in improving the health of special populations will be discussed in the context of empirical research evidence. The emphasis of the course will be to explore public health policy initiatives to address the health problems under consideration, and to evaluate their success and unintended consequences.
PBH 624 State Health Policy
This course provides an overview of health care policy in the United States, a close examination of selected current policy topics, and exposure to real-world health policymaking via case studies in various states.
PBH 625 Health Policy and Program Implementation
This course is designed to provide public health students with a conceptual framework for both understanding and integrating the dimensions and practice of the evolving field of public health. It addresses historical aspects and events that have impacted the field and emphasizes directed efforts to clarify and strengthen the discipline and functions of public health from a systems approach. It also reinforces the organization and management of mandated community health and related services provided by governmental health agencies.
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For more than 95 years, Regis College has supported learners in their journey to realize their full potential, reach their personal and professional goals, and become forces of good in the world. It’s our mission to help empower people to challenge themselves as they prepare to serve and lead through education.
With our focus on student success and our commitment to social justice and service, we help students in the greater Boston area and around the globe achieve more and go further.
College Details
Regis College is a coed university 12 miles west of Boston in Weston, Mass., founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston.
With more than 3,200 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students enrolled on campus and in fully online graduate programs, Regis provides an academically rigorous education within the schools of nursing, arts and sciences, business and communication, and health sciences.
College Details
The School of Health Sciences at Regis helps today’s compassionate and empathetic learners channel their passion for service into impactful careers as tomorrow’s health care, wellness, and fitness leaders. Here, students who want to pursue meaningful work and make a true and lasting difference study topics like medical imaging, public health, social work, sport management, and occupational therapy.
College Details
Our motto, Via Veritas Vita, translates to “the way and the truth and the light.” These words drive our mission of empowering learners through knowledge to live meaningful lives and contribute to our global society.
Today, Regis boasts an alumni network more than 20,000 strong. This supportive, tight-knit community has a history of professional success in the job market: 97% of our graduates find full-time work or pursue further education within six months of graduation.
Dr. Burke offers a wealth of knowledge and experience in the public health sector. Since becoming dean for the School of Health Sciences, she has focused on expanding interprofessional education at Regis College along with global collaborators.
With her strong background in epidemiology, Dr. Burke has worked to increase research opportunities for students and faculty in the School of Health Sciences.
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Frazier B. Beatty, PhD, MPH, CHES is a public health professional with a diverse background in online education. He has a combination of over 20 years of educational training and educational management experience. He also has over 20 years of experience conducting research and using best-practice approaches and data to improve student academic programs. Dr. Beatty has worked for state and federal government agencies, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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