The first MPH Program graduates receive Pioneer Awards 5/17/04.
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The Master of Public Health (MPH) Program
was initiated in 2001 with a focus on urban and immigrant health. In June 2002, 12 students enrolled in the first four courses offered. Three years later, the program has an enrollment of 90 students and offers 24 courses scheduled throughout the three semesters of the academic year. Students come from diverse ethnic and educational backgrounds as well as from a wide range of experiences. The student body includes health care providers from several fields, those concurrently pursuing MD/MPH degrees, and non-health care professionals.
Following the graduation of the first MPH students in May 2004, the program became eligible for accreditation from the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) the national accrediting body for Programs and Schools of Public Health. In December 2004, CEPH conducted an accreditation site visit of the Downstate MPH Program, and in June 2005, the Board of CEPH accredited the program for five years. This period of accreditation is exceptional, as many new programs are only given accreditation for three years.
The phenomenal growth of the MPH Program growth, which now has 10 full-time and 15 adjunct and voluntary faculty, and its national accreditation for 5 years, opens the way for the establishment of a School of Public Health, which would be the first such school in Brooklyn's History. In preparation for this, the MPH Program is developing two additional tracks, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Health Policy and Management, and doctoral programs.
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2004 MPH graduate Sophia N. Williams, pictured with the SUNY Downstate Mobile Asthma Center, wherre she conducted her practicum.
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But growth without vision, without a commitment to service and to the needs of our community and borough would be an empty promise - a dream unfulfilled. Every day our students go into the community applying the theoretical knowledge they achieve in the classroom to the public health issues they encounter through their practicum. This 250 hour culmination of the educational experience allows students to work in partnership with a wide variety of organizations including community-based groups, health care and social service organizations, religious groups and communities, as well as outreach into the Downstate neighborhood and in other underserved areas throughout the metropolitan area.
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