Any affordable mph program with possibility of funding?

[AlanP]

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I am Medical Doctor trainned and working presently in a West African country. I will appreciate anyone's guide to MPH programs that are not very expensive but of good quality. I got admissions to several top-ranked programs including John Hopkings MPH and Emory University MPH(International Health) for 2011/2012 but could not attend due to financial constraint.
I will also want to know about programs that have a bias for physicians with the possibility of funding.
I have a total score of 1420 in the GRE. I have 5 years of clinical experience with some volunteering. I have a passion for public health.

Looking forward to your responses.

 

[nietzsche754]

I've posted this info before but it's worth repeating. My school (UT-Houston) offers all out of state MPH students with a 3.5 GPA and above a 1200 GRE a New Student Scholarship that provides in state tuition for 12 months and an additional $1,500. Under Texas law after the 12 months if you get a full time job here you are a resident anyway. I am completing the program in 16 months full time and it's costing me under $35k for the whole deal. I don't know if we have a "bias" for physicians but you would enjoy it here because rather than being in a large university with frat houses and freshmen we are in a large medical center across the street from the nursing school and very connected to the medical school and dental school. Before coming here I attended grad school at a large research university and grad students were treated like the cash cows who funded freshman's scholarships. Here the MPH students are the freshmen and so we get individualized attention from our professors and they actually learn our names (imagine that!)

 

[AlanP]

I've posted this info before but it's worth repeating. My school (UT-Houston) offers all out of state MPH students with a 3.5 GPA and above a 1200 GRE a New Student Scholarship that provides in state tuition for 12 months and an additional $1,500. Under Texas law after the 12 months if you get a full time job here you are a resident anyway. I am completing the program in 16 months full time and it's costing me under $35k for the whole deal. I don't know if we have a "bias" for physicians but you would enjoy it here because rather than being in a large university with frat houses and freshmen we are in a large medical center across the street from the nursing school and very connected to the medical school and dental school. Before coming here I attended grad school at a large research university and grad students were treated like the cash cows who funded freshman's scholarships. Here the MPH students are the freshmen and so we get individualized attention from our professors and they actually learn our names (imagine that!)

Thank you very much for that response. But I will appreciate more responses from members of this forum who have passed through this pathway before or who are already doing MPH programs that they consider affordable (<10k per sessions) and of good quality and which also offer the possibility of scholarships/fellowships/assisitantships.
I keep my fingers crossed.

 

[Borks]

I am Medical Doctor trainned and working presently in a West African country. I will appreciate anyone's guide to MPH programs that are not very expensive but of good quality. I got admissions to several top-ranked programs including John Hopkings MPH and Emory University MPH(International Health) for 2011/2012 but could not attend due to financial constraint.
I will also want to know about programs that have a bias for physicians with the possibility of funding.
I have a total score of 1420 in the GRE. I have 5 years of clinical experience with some volunteering. I have a passion for public health.

Looking forward to your responses.

There aren't that many public health schools in the US (and even fewer good ones), you have to make a list, school by school, and email folks, read websites, and figure out which one is most affordable. Do this research yourself as this is your education. I do believe some school have scholarshiops for foreign doctors, but I don't know which ones. Sorry!

If you want a job in the US then you should do your MPH at a school here, instead of doing an online MPH.

 

[rbnsafsadgf]

I am Medical Doctor trainned and working presently in a West African country. I will appreciate anyone's guide to MPH programs that are not very expensive but of good quality. I got admissions to several top-ranked programs including John Hopkings MPH and Emory University MPH(International Health) for 2011/2012 but could not attend due to financial constraint.

http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/funding/funding_africa.html

Good luck!