Online Master of Public Health

The UVM online MPH degree prepares students to take on leadership roles in a variety of public health disciplines. We accept students with professional health and non-health backgrounds including:

• Medical and public health professionals
• Researchers
• Graduate students
• Clinicians
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Professionals and students with a variety of backgrounds
• Graduate students preparing for advanced study at the doctoral level

Our program will help you further your goals by teaching you to:

• Learn about policy and advocacy and their crucial role in improving health in many areas
• Gain a population perspective to develop academic and practical skills to positively impact populations in communities, states, and entire countries
• Research, evaluate, and improve the health of various populations
• Work collaboratively with a network of professionals in healthcare, government agencies, and non-profit organizations
• Navigate the levels of community resources to improve public health
• Identify changes needed to improve healthcare systems and requirements for accountability within the healthcare system
• Implement new models for population-based medical practice

The UVM online Master of Public Health curriculum was developed in collaboration with the Larner College of Medicine. Our 42-credit online Master of Public Health (MPH) degree prepares you for a number of Public Health careers. Our program helps students explore timely public health and policy issues while providing a strong foundation in population health sciences. Our program leads to a Generalist MPH degree focused on excellence in Environmental Public Health, Epidemiology, Quantitative Public Health Sciences, and Health Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy. Our graduates are well-rounded and you will be prepared to grow your career in the area of Public Health of most interest to you.

We take academics and our online MPH program seriously, expecting a certain level of performance from our students. Students enrolled in the program are expected to maintain a minimum grade point average of 3.0 and meet all of the requirements of the Graduate College.

You can earn all program credits online, with the option to complete the culminating project experience based on your home location. As a full-time student, you can complete the program within one or two years, or you can choose the flexibility of part-time study around your professional schedule.

The Online Master of Public Health degree requires 42 total credits and includes:

• 18 credits in national competency core courses (6 courses)
• 9 credits in required advanced core courses (3 courses)
• 6 credits of required culminating project experience
• 9 elective course credits (3 courses)

The Applied Practice Experience:

The Applied Practice Experience (APE) is a 1-credit, brief work-based learning experience during the fall or spring semester at a public health organization that you identify (with assistance from APE Faculty Coach) near where you live or work. The APE includes 15 hours direct contact with APE Faculty Coach during the semester, 20 or more hours outside the classroom at the student-selected agency site during the spring semester, and 10 hours of work on your electronic portfolio products. Applied Practice Experiences create opportunities to assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities’ health, apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design or implementation of public health policies or programs, propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes, select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors, and perform effectively on inter-professional teams.