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Online Masters In Public Health Degree

Yale University
New Haven , United States
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Program Overview

Executive MPH Hybrid Curriculum: Online & In-Person

The Executive MPH Hybrid Curriculum is designed for working professionals, offering a combination of online and in-person learning experiences. The program is tailored to provide students with a broad foundation in public health, focusing on essential skills in leadership, strategic problem-solving, and executive communication.


EMPH Year 1

  • Summer Semester (2.5 Credits):
    • Onsite Intensive: Everyday Leadership (EMPH 528; early June)
    • Biostatistics in Public Health (EMPH 535)
    • Foundations of Behavior Change (EMPH 533)
  • Fall Semester (3 Credits):
    • Foundations of Epidemiology and Public Health (EMPH 534)
    • Frontiers of Public Health (EMPH 537)
    • Onsite intensive: Design Thinking in Public Health (EMPH 530; fall break)
    • Online short course: Ethics in Public Health (EMPH 539; two 3-hour synchronous sessions, typically two Fridays in late Sept.-early Oct.)
  • Spring Semester (2 Credits):
    • Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Public Health (EMPH 536)
    • Health Policy and Health Care Systems (EMPH 538)

EMPH Year 2

  • Summer Semester (2.5 Credits):
    • Onsite Intensive: Executive Communication Skills for Public Health and Healthcare (EMPH 529)
    • 1 Track Requirement
    • 1 Elective or Track Requirement
  • Fall Semester (3 Credits):
    • EMPH Integrative Applied Practice Experience-Fall (EMPH 540)
    • 1 Track Requirement
    • 1 Elective or Track Requirement
  • Spring Semester (3 Credits):
    • EMPH Integrative Applied Practice Experience-Spring (EMPH 541)
    • 1 Track Requirement
    • 1 Elective or Track Requirement

Our Courses

The core public health courses required in Year 1 of the EMPH provide students with a broad foundation in the skill sets, frameworks, and perspectives essential to careers in public health. These classes are designed for working professionals and use cases and small group discussions to enrich the learning experience.


Putting the E in EMPH: Emphasizing Leadership and Executive Skills

As a program tailored to the needs of working professionals, core coursework also includes training focused on essential skills in leadership, strategic problem-solving, and executive communication. Combining conceptual learning of key frameworks and principles with opportunities to apply newly acquired skills, students develop a practical skillset to serve them now and in the future.


  • Everyday Leadership Intensive (Year 1, Summer Intensive): Develops a learner-leader framework for students to maximize their own leadership capacity.
  • Design Thinking Intensive (Year 1, Fall Intensive): Introduces design thinking as an iterative framework to elevate the perspective of user groups in the innovation process to solve complex challenges.
  • Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Public Health (Year 1, Spring Course): Applies principles of evidence-based decision-making in public health, ensuring that evidence-based practice is culturally-informed and tailored to the population of interest.
  • Executive Communication Skills for Public Health and Healthcare Intensive (Year 2, Summer Intensive): Addresses strategies for articulating ideas to engage a spectrum of stakeholders and skills for advocating change, focusing on credibility, culture, and diversity in communication.
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