What is and what can you do with MPH?

[johnb]

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I was just reading a bunch of posts here and wondered what kind of work you do with MPH. I got a vague idea that you work around "hospital administration" but what does that mean? What type of jobs do you do with MPH?

 

[kurly]

I was just reading a bunch of posts here and wondered what kind of work you do with MPH. I got a vague idea that you work around "hospital administration" but what does that mean? What type of jobs do you do with MPH?

Did you check out the links in the stickied post above? Hospital administration doesn't fall under the umbrella of the intent of an MPH degree. A more appropriate degree would be the MHA.

There are many different subfields within public health. Check out this page for more info. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Public_Health

 

[aupz23]

Did you check out the links in the stickied post above? Hospital administration doesn't fall under the umbrella of the intent of an MPH degree. A more appropriate degree would be the MHA.

There are many different subfields within public health. Check out this page for more info. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Public_Health

Hello kruly:

Actually health administration does fall under the umbrella of public health. There are different aspects of public health: biostatistics, behavioral health, epidemiology, health policy & management. There are people who have an MPH degree and are hospital CEOs. There are also programs that offer the MPH instead of the MHA and prepare students for health administration. For example, Yale, UC Berkeley, and UCLA offer MPH programs instead of MHA programs and students from those 3 institutions get awared hospial administrative fellowships all over the country.

 

[Stories]

Hello kruly:

Actually health administration does fall under the umbrella of public health. There are different aspects of public health: biostatistics, behavioral health, epidemiology, health policy & management. There are people who have an MPH degree and are hospital CEOs. There are also programs that offer the MPH instead of the MHA and prepare students for health administration. For example, Yale, UC Berkeley, and UCLA offer MPH programs instead of MHA programs and students from those 3 institutions get awared hospial administrative fellowships all over the country.

I think kruly was just trying to point out that when you do a MPH degree, you have to take several classes outside of the policy and management field that would have no relevance to someone pursuing that career. All MPH students are required to take classes in environmental health, epidemiology, biostatistics, social behavior sciences, and health policy/management regardless of what your concentration/major/department is. This PH core requirement is typically not a component of MHA degrees.

 

[DrJosephKim]

I like to think of it this way: you have your "traditional" positions, and then you also have many non-traditional opportunities (such as medical writing, consulting, medical education, managed care, etc.)