Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
MSPH in International Health (Global Disease Epidemilogy and Control)
Baltimore, USA
Master degree
DURATION
24 months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The MSPH in International Health (Global Disease Epidemiology and Control) trains students in epidemiology and biostatistics to design, implement, and evaluate disease-control interventions for underserved populations. You’ll gain hands-on fieldwork experience at global sites, focusing on biomedical interventions (drugs, vaccines, environmental changes), clinical and community trials, laboratory investigations, mHealth strategies, infectious disease, and maternal and neonatal health.
Career Outcomes: Alumni pursue careers in academia, government, NGOs, and industry. Graduates work as epidemiologists, field researchers, programme evaluators, vaccine policy analysts, and advisors who assist researchers and managers designing, implementing, and evaluating programmes addressing health challenges in the US and abroad.
The GDEC Program trains students to use epidemiologic and biostatistical methods to design, implement, and evaluate disease control interventions of public health importance to underserved populations. Students have the opportunity to work with faculty at field sites across the world, gaining hands-on experience in global health research and program implementation.
The program emphasizes biomedical interventions (e.g. therapeutic or prophylactic drugs, vaccines, or environmental modifications). Most projects are interdisciplinary and draw on knowledge and expertise across the School in partnership with international collaborators. Students can acquire a broad understanding of the methods, skills, and tools needed to design, conduct, and analyze community and clinical trials and/or laboratory-based investigations.
Special strengths of the GDEC program include:
- Infectious disease epidemiology (including emerging infections)
- Evaluation of health programs in developing settings
- Community-based maternal and neonatal health approaches
- mHealth strategies to address health and wellness challenges
- Certificate in Vaccine Science and Policy. This certificate requires coursework on vaccinology, spanning biological bases, clinical trials, development, application, and policy with a concentration of coursework and research opportunities.
Student timeline
Students can complete their degrees in 1.5 years. All requirements should be completed within 2 years.
Academic Terms 1 - 4
- Intensive coursework, with a focus on biostatistics, epidemiology, and infectious diseases.
- Comprehensive departmental examination at the end of the first academic year.
- Practicum proposal.
Academic Terms 5 – 6 (minimum)
- Practicum: field placement or School-based investigation and analysis of a significant issue related to the health of underserved populations.
- Practicum update at the end of every term.
- Elective courses.
- Capstone essay reviewed and approved by two faculty readers. The capstone should provide tangible evidence of expertise on a specific applied topic of international health relevance.
Alumni enjoy careers in academia, government and non-government sectors, and industry. Graduates become public health practitioners who provide technical assistance to public health researchers and public health managers in the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs to address public health problems facing underserved populations in the US and abroad.
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Learning Outcomes
- Evaluate and execute intervention strategies and approaches that address major public health problems of underserved populations, with emphasis on infectious diseases and vaccines, in the context of culture, communities and health policies
- Incorporate the epidemiology, biology, pathophysiology, and/or modes of transmission, to analyze, recommend, or create appropriate strategies for prevention and control of the major infectious diseases of public health importance to resource-poor environments
- Apply management principles to programs for health systems and health services in developing countries
- Identify major environmental health problems and communicate some solutions in detail with an emphasis on issues of water and sanitation
- Analyze and synthesize relevant public health data and develop and implement prevention, control, and evaluation plans employing epidemiological methods to address disease burdens of public health importance
- Address problems of global disease burden within its biological, cultural, and behavioral context
- Evaluate a field research or public health program from conception of ideas through design, management, monitoring, data collection, interpretation, and analysis
- Conduct a statistical analysis of disease burden or program evaluation data, and provide a reasoned interpretation of the results to contribute to program improvement and/or public health literature
- Produce written reports of research and/or programmatic findings and communicate them via oral presentations, posters, briefs, peer-reviewed articles, or other official documents, intended for public health professionals and/or policy makers
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the school website for more information
