Program Overview

Master of Public Health (MPH@GW), Women, Youth, and Child Health Concentration

Overview

The MPH@GW concentration in women, youth, and child health is grounded in a life course perspective as an organizing framework that acknowledges distinct periods in human development and presents both risks and opportunities for interventions. Further, the academic program explores the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates the biological, demographic, epidemiological, developmental, environmental, behavioral, and social characteristics that are unique to the health and well-being of women, children, adolescents, and families in the United States and around the world.

Admissions

Graduate admissions information, including application requirements and deadlines, can be found on the GWSPH Graduate Admissions website.

Requirements

The following requirements must be fulfilled: 45 credits including; 19 credits in core courses, including the culminating experience; 10 credits in program-specific courses; 13 credits in concentration-specific courses; and 3 credits in elective courses.

Course List

• Required
  • Core courses
    • PUBH 6000: MPH Applied Practice Experience
    • PUBH 6002: Biostatistical Applications for Public Health
    • PUBH 6003: Principles and Practices of Epidemiology
    • PUBH 6007: Social and Behavioral Approaches to Public Health
    • PUBH 6009: Fundamentals of Public Health Program Evaluation
    • PUBH 6011: Environmental and Biological Foundations of Public Health
    • PUBH 6012: Fundamentals of Health Policy
    • PUBH 6021: Essentials of Public Health Practice and Leadership I
    • PUBH 6022: Essentials of Public Health Practice and Leadership II
    • PUBH 6023: Interprofessional Education Experience
    • PUBH 6060: MPH@GW Culminating Experience I
    • PUBH 6061: MPH@GW Culminating Experience II
  • Program-specific courses
    • PUBH 6052: Practical Data Management and Analysis for Public Health
    • PUBH 6442: Comparative Global Health Systems
    • PUBH 6500: Planning and Implementing Health Promotion Programs
    • PUBH 6503: Introduction to Public Health Communication and Marketing
  • Concentration-specific courses
    • PUBH 6550: Maternal and Child Health I
    • PUBH 6552: Women's Health
    • PUBH 6563: Global Child Health
    • PUBH 6451: Monitoring/Evaluation of Sexual/Reproductive Health Programs in Low- and Middle- Income Countries
  • Selectives
    • 4 credits in courses selected from the following:
      • PUBH 6054: Community Engagement and Advocacy
      • PUBH 6058: Researching Violence Against Women and Girls
      • PUBH 6335: Public Health and Law
      • PUBH 6400: Global Health Frameworks
      • PUBH 6452: Social and Behavior Change Communication in Middle- to Low-Income Countries
      • PUBH 6455: Global Vaccinology
      • PUBH 6480: Public Health in Humanitarian Settings
      • PUBH 6489: Evaluation of Food and Nutrition Programs and Policies
      • PUBH 6514: Preventing Health Disparities
  • Electives
    • 3 credits in any graduate-level PUBH courses.