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Public Health, Col ofGraduate Degree SeekingMPH - Master of Public Health
Completion requirement

Minimum Credit Units

42 

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

View academic program information here: https://publichealth.arizona.edu/programs/undergraduate/bs/accelerated-bs-mph

Core Courses for all emphases: 16 units

  • course: Basic Principles of Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Public Health Policy and Management (3)

  • course: Environmental and Occupational Health (3)

  • course: Biostatistics in Public Health (3)

  • course: Sociocultural & Behavioral Aspects of Public Health (3)

  • course / course / course / course / course: Integrated Public Health Learning Experience (1)

AMP Students select from 3 emphases: Environmental & Occupational Health, Global Health, and Industrial Hygiene. See requirements for each emphasis below.

Environmental & Occupational Health Emphasis: 17 units

  • course: Environmental Monitoring Methods (3)

  • course: Fundamentals of Industrial and Environmental Health (3)

  • course: Applied Exposure Assessment (3)

  • course: Environmental and Occupational Health Seminar (1 unit - 2 times)

  • course: Master's Report "Internship" (6)

Global Health Emphasis: 23 units

  • course: Global Health (3)

  • course: International Nutrition (3)

  • course: A Public Health Lens to Climate Change (3)

  • course: Project Planning and Evaluation in Global Health and Development (3)

  • course: Applied Field Methods in Global Health Nutrition (3) OR course: Management of Global Public Health Emergencies (3)

  • course: Changing Health Policy: Cultural Understanding & Epi Analysis (3) OR course: Global Maternity Health: Cultural Perceptions and Policy Approaches (3)

  • course: Master's Report (5)

Industrial Hygiene Emphasis: 26 units

  • course: Environmental Monitoring Methods (3)

  • course: Physical Exposures (3)

  • course: Toxicology and Chemical Exposure (3)

  • course: Fundamentals of Industrial and Environmental Health (3)

  • course: Applied Exposure Assessment (3)

  • course: Control of Occupational Exposures (3)

  • course: Environmental and Occupational Health Seminar (1 unit - 2 times)

  • course: Master's Report "Internship" (6) 

 

Elective Coursework

Elective Courses for the Environmental and Occupational Health (EOH) Emphasis (Minimum 9 units)  

  • course: Physical Exposures (3)

  • course: Introduction Human Health Risk Assessment (3)

  • course: Introduction to Occupational Safety (3)

  • course: Topics in Environmental Justice (3)

  • course:Introduction to Environmental Health Policy (3)

  • course: Toxicology and Chemical Exposure (3)

  • course: Environmental & Occupational Diseases (3)

  • course: Public Health Preparedness I (3)

  • course: Modeling Exposures to Environmental Hazards (3)

  • course: Control of Occupational Exposures (3)

In addition, other cross campus courses may be used as EOH electives; approved by Faculty Mentor.

Elective Courses for the Global Health Emphasis (Minimum 3 units approved by faculty mentor):

If any of the courses below are specifically part of your required curriculum, they cannot be used toward your elective requirement.

  • course: Introduction to Statistical Analysis using STATA

  • course: Introduction to Statistical Analysis using SAS

  • course: Biostatistics for Research

  • course: Data Management and the SAS Programming Language

  • course: Outbreaks & Environmental Microbiology: Then to Now

  • course: Epidemiologic Methods

  • course: SAFER - Student Epidemiology Response Team

  • course: Skin Cancer Prevention in the Community Setting

  • course: Intercultural Communication for Health Sciences 

  • course / course: Food in 2050 and Beyond: Climate Change and Global Health

  • course: Comparative Health Analysis from a Global Perspective 

  • course / course: Food System Preparedness for Global Emergency Risks 

  • course: Public Health Approach to Mental Health Disorders in the U.S.

  • course: (cross listed) Latino Health Disparities

  • course: Project Design & Implementation In Global Health

  • course: Nutrition, Health, and Development

  • course: Applied Aspects of Program Planning Implementation and Evaluation

  • course: Global Health

  • course: Infectious Diseases, Global Health & Development

  • course: Fundamentals of Evaluation

  • course: Public Health Advocacy

  • course: Family & Child Health In Urban Settings Service Learning

  • course: Maternal & Child Health in Rural Settings Service Learning

  • course: Public Health for Community Wellness Service Learning

  • course: Open Airways for Schools Service Learning

  • course: Community Based Participatory Action Research to Decrease Health Disparities

  • course: Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health

  • course: Evaluating Public Health Literature (available spring semester for elective)

  • course: Applied Aspects of Telemedicine & Telehealth

  • course: Border Health Service Learning Institute

  • course: Phoenix Urban Service Learning

  • course: Economic Foundations for Health Sciences

  • course: Healthcare Economics & Policy

  • course: Health Care Marketing

  • course: Intro to Healthcare Quality & Safety

  • course: Health Services Administration

  • course: American Indian Health Policy

  • course: Fundamentals of Health Budgeting and Financial Management

  • course: Rural Health Service Learning

  • course: Public Health Law & Ethics

  • course: Regulatory Science

  • Other courses as approved by faculty mentor

No electives required for the Industrial Hygiene Emphasis.

Additional Requirements

  • Master's Report Preparation Workshop (required; non-credit)

  • Interprofessional Education Activities (documentation required; non-credit)

 

Student Handbook

Please refer to the Graduate Student Handbook for students who are pursuing this program of study.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

26 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

REQUIRED CORE COURSES (26 units)

  • course: Fundamental of Health Budgeting & Financial Management (3)

  • course: Applied Epidemiologic Method (3)

  • course: Analysis of Public Health Data (3)

  • course: Biostatistics for Research (3)

  • course: Infectious Disease (3)

  • course: Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Public Health Research & Evaluation (3)

  • course: Master's Report (5)

 

Emphasis Elective Coursework

None

 

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

26 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

REQUIRED CONCENTRATION COURSES (14 units)

  • course: Biostatistics for Research (3)

  • course: Applied Biostatistics Analysis (3)

  • course: Biostatistical Methods I: Clinical Trials/Survey Analysis (3)

  • course: Master's Report "Internship" (5)

 

Emphasis Elective Coursework

Elective Courses (minimum 12 units) - Approved by Faculty Mentor 

  • Any 3-unit 500/600-level BIOS courses*

  • course: Principles of Genetic Association Studies (3) 

  • course: Advanced Statistical Regression Analysis (3)

  • course: Design of Experiments (3)

  • course: Statistical Computing (3) 

*A maximum of 6 elective credits may be applied from course, course, and course

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

26 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

REQUIRED FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH EMPHASIS (23 units)

Emphasis Elective Coursework

3 units

  • course: Fundamentals of Health Budgeting and Financial Management(3) OR

  • elective approved by Faculty Advisor

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

26 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

REQUIRED CONCENTRATION COURSES (17 units)

  • course: Environmental Monitoring Methods (3)

  • course: Fundamentals of Industrial and Environmental Health (3)

  • course: Applied Exposure Assessment (3)

  • course: Environmental and Occupational Health Seminar (1 unit - 2 times)

  • course: Master's Report "Internship" (6)

 

Emphasis Elective Coursework

(Minimum 9 units)  

  • course: Physical Exposures (3)

  • course: Introduction Human Health Risk Assessment (3)

  • course: Introduction to Occupational Safety (3)

  • course: Topics in Environmental Justice (3)

  • course:Introduction to Environmental Health Policy (3)

  • course: Toxicology and Chemical Exposure (3)

  • course: Environmental & Occupational Diseases (3)

  • course: Public Health Preparedness I (3)

  • course: Modeling Exposures to Environmental Hazards (3)

  • course: Control of Occupational Exposures (3)

In addition, other cross campus courses may be used as EOH electives; approved by Faculty Mentor

 

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

26 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

REQUIRED CONCENTRATION COURSES (17 units)

  • course: Epidemiologic Methods (3)

  • course: Advanced Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Biostatistics for Research (3)

  • course: Public Health Experience - Student Epidemiology Response Team (2)

  • course: Epidemiology Seminar (1 unit, 2 terms)

  • course: Master's Report "Internship" (4)

Emphasis Elective Coursework

Complete 3 Selective Epidemiology courses (minimum 9 units) from the following courses:

  • course: Environmentally Acquired Illnesses (3)

  • course: A Public Health Lens to Climate Change (3)

  • course: Digital Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Cancer Epidemiology & Prevention (3)

  • course: Meta-analysis of Observational Studies (3)

  • course: Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Nutritional Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Measurement Issues in Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Infectious Disease Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Chronic Disease Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Mixed Research Methods - Design, Conduct and Application in Health Research (3)

  • course: Spatial Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Principles of Genetic Association Studies (3)

  • course:One Health Applications and Practice (3)

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

26 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

REQUIRED CONCENTRATION COURSES (14 units)

  • course: Maternal and Child Health (3)

  • course: Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Master's Report "Internship" (5)

  • One Planning and/or Evaluation Course (from approved list - consult with Faculty Mentor) (3)

Emphasis Elective Coursework

Required Elective Courses (minimum 12 units approved by faculty mentor):

If any of the courses below are specifically part of your required curriculum, they cannot be used toward your elective requirement

  • course: Introduction to Statistical Analysis using STATA

  • course: Introduction to Statistical Analysis using SAS

  • course: Biostatistics for Research

  • course: Data Management and the SAS Programming Language

  • course: Outbreaks & Environmental Microbiology: Then to Now

  • course: Epidemiologic Methods

  • course: Public Health Experience - Student Epidemiology Response Team

  • course: Skin Cancer Prevention in the Community Setting

  • course: Public Health Approach to Mental Health Disorders in the U.S.

  • course (cross listed): Latino Health Disparities

  • course: Project Design & Implementation In Global Health

  • course: Nutrition, Health, and Development

  • course: Applied Aspects of Program Planning Implementation and Evaluation I

  • course: Global Health

  • course: Infectious Diseases, Global Health & Development

  • course: Fundamentals of Evaluation

  • course: Family Violence

  • course: Public Health Advocacy

  • course: Adolescent Health

  • course: Maternal & Child Health In Urban Settings

  • course: Maternal & Child Health in the Rural Southwest

  • course: Public Health for Community Wellness

  • course: Open Airways for Schools

  • course: Community Based Participatory Action Research to Decrease Health Disparities

  • course:Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health

  • course: Evaluating Public Health Literature

  • course: Maternal & Child Health Seminar

  • course: Applied Aspects of Telemedicine & Telehealth

  • course: Phoenix Urban Service Learning

  • course: Border Health Service Learning Institute

  • course: Economic Foundations for Health Sciences

  • course: Healthcare Economics & Policy

  • course: Health Care Marketing

  • course: Intro to Healthcare Quality & Safety

  • course: Health Services Administration

  • course: American Indian Health Policy

  • course: Fundamentals of Health Budgeting and Financial Management

  • course: Rural Health Service Learning

  • course: Public Health Law & Ethics

  • course: Regulatory Science

  • Other courses as approved by faculty mentor

 

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

26 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

REQUIRED CONCENTRATION COURSES (23 units)

  • course: Global Health (3)

  • course: International Nutrition (3)

  • course: A Public Health Lens to Climate Change (3)

  • course: Project Planning and Evaluation in Global Health and Development (3)

  • course: Applied Field Methods in Global Health Nutrition (3) OR course: Management of Global Public Health Emergencies (3)

  • course: Changing Health Policy: Cultural Understanding & Epi Analysis (3) OR course: Global Maternity Health: Cultural Perceptions and Policy Approaches (3)

  • course: Master's Report (5)

 

Emphasis Elective Coursework

Required Elective Courses (minimum 3 units approved by faculty mentor):

If any of the courses below are specifically part of your required curriculum, they cannot be used toward your elective requirement

  • course: Introduction to Statistical Analysis using STATA

  • course: Introduction to Statistical Analysis using SAS

  • course: Biostatistics for Research

  • course: Data Management and the SAS Programming Language

  • course: Outbreaks & Environmental Microbiology: Then to Now

  • course: Epidemiologic Methods

  • course: SAFER - Student Epidemiology Response Team

  • course: Skin Cancer Prevention in the Community Setting

  • course: Intercultural Communication for Health Sciences 

  • course / course: Food in 2050 and Beyond: Climate Change and Global Health

  • course: Comparative Health Analysis from a Global Perspective 

  • course / course: Food System Preparedness for Global Emergency Risks 

  • course: Public Health Approach to Mental Health Disorders in the U.S.

  • course: (cross listed) Latino Health Disparities

  • course: Project Design & Implementation In Global Health

  • course: Nutrition, Health, and Development

  • course: Applied Aspects of Program Planning Implementation and Evaluation

  • course: Global Health

  • course: Infectious Diseases, Global Health & Development

  • course: Fundamentals of Evaluation

  • course: Public Health Advocacy

  • course: Family & Child Health In Urban Settings Service Learning

  • course: Maternal & Child Health in Rural Settings Service Learning

  • course: Public Health for Community Wellness Service Learning

  • course: Open Airways for Schools Service Learning

  • course: Community Based Participatory Action Research to Decrease Health Disparities

  • course: Qualitative Research Methods in Public Health

  • course: Evaluating Public Health Literature (available spring semester for elective)

  • course: Applied Aspects of Telemedicine & Telehealth

  • course: Border Health Service Learning Institute

  • course: Phoenix Urban Service Learning

  • course: Economic Foundations for Health Sciences

  • course: Healthcare Economics & Policy

  • course: Health Care Marketing

  • course: Intro to Healthcare Quality & Safety

  • course: Health Services Administration

  • course: American Indian Health Policy

  • course: Fundamentals of Health Budgeting and Financial Management

  • course: Rural Health Service Learning

  • course: Public Health Law & Ethics

  • course: Regulatory Science

  • Other courses as approved by faculty mentor

 

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

26 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

REQUIRED CONCENTRATION COURSES (15-17 units)

  • course: Contemporary Health Issues and Research (3)

  • course: Multicultural Health Beliefs (3) 

  • course: Master’s Report (5) 

Select one of the following options:

  • course: Applied Aspects of Program Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation I (4) OR

  • course: Planning of Health Promotion Programs (3) AND course: Evaluation of Health Promotion Programs (3)

Emphasis Elective Coursework

(minimum 9-11 units) – Approved by Faculty Mentor

  • Service Learning courses (597 A-G & S) are strongly recommended to meet 1-2 elective credit options for Main Campus Students.

 

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

26 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

REQUIRED CONCENTRATION COURSES (26 credits)

  • course: Healthcare Economics & Policy (3)

  • course: Health Care Marketing (3)

  • course: Intro to Healthcare Quality & Safety (3)

  • course: Health Services Administration (3)

  • course: Fundamentals of Health Budgeting and Financial Management (3)

  • course: Health Systems Delivery (3)

  • course: Public Health Law & Ethics (3)

  • course: Master’s Report (5)

 

Emphasis Elective Coursework

None

 

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

26 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

REQUIRED CONCENTRATION COURSES (26 units)

  • course: Environmental Monitoring Methods (3)

  • course: Physical Exposures (3)

  • course: Toxicology and Chemical Exposure (3)

  • course: Fundamentals of Industrial and Environmental Health (3)

  • course: Applied Exposure Assessment (3)

  • course: Control of Occupational Exposures (3)

  • course: Environmental and Occupational Health Seminar (1 unit - 2 times)

  • course: Master's Report "Internship" (6) 

     

Emphasis Elective Coursework

None

 

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

26 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

REQUIRED CONCENTRATION COURSES (15 units)

  • course: Issues and Trends in Public Health (3)

  • course: Applied Public Health Practice (3)

  • course: Clinical Leadership and Administration (4)

  • 909 Master's Report (5)

Emphasis Elective Coursework

11 units of any 500-level or higher courses approved by student's faculty mentor.

  • 2 of the 11 units automatically permitted from medical school curriculum.

  • Any courses that are specifically part of the required curriculum cannot be used toward the elective requirement.

 

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

26 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

REQUIRED CONCENTRATION COURSES (17 units)

  • course / course: One Health Foundations (3)

  • course: Infectious Disease Epidemiology (3)

  • course: A Public Health Lens to Climate Change (3)

  • course: One Health Applications and Practice (3)

  • course: Public Health Experience - Student Epidemiology Response Team (2) (For more information, please visit SAFER)

  • course: Mater's Report "Internship" (3)

 

Emphasis Elective Coursework

Required Selectives (9 units): Students must take at least one course from each of the three areas: HUMAN, ANIMAL/PATHOGEN, and ENVIRONMENT.

HUMAN

  • course: Global Health (3)

  • course: Changing Health Policy: Cultural Understanding and Epi Analysis (4)

  • course: Systems Thinking in One Health (3)

  • course: Infectious Diseases, Global Health and Development (3)

  • course / course: Development Microeconomics (3)

  • course: One Health Approaches and Case Studies (3)

  • course / course: Indigenous Research and Ethics (3)

  • course: Topics in Environmental Justice (3)

  • course: Climate and Health (3)

 ANIMAL/PATHOGEN

  • course: Outbreaks and Environmental Microbiology: Then to Now (3)

  • course: Food Microbiology and Biotechnology (3)

  • course: Pathogenic Bacteriology (3)

  • course: Diseases of Wildlife (3)

  • course: Principles of Livestock Health Management (3)

  • course: Medical Veterinary Entomology (3)

  • course: General Immunological Concepts (4)

  • course: Wildlife and Zoonotic Disease Ecology (3)

ENVIRONMENT

  • course: Ecosystem Ecology and a Sustainable Future (3)

  • course: Climate Change Adaptation: Perspectives at the Nexus of Science, Society and Resource Management (3)

  • course: Lifecourse Epidemiology of Environmental Exposures (3)

  • course: Natural Resources Policy and Law (3)

  • course: Managing to Collaborate on Environmental and Natural Resource Conflicts (3)

  • course: Environmentally Acquired Illnesses (3)

  • course: Toxicology and Chemical Exposure (3)

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

26 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

REQUIRED CONCENTRATION COURSES (17 units)

  • course: Aging, Environment and Wellbeing in Later Life (3)

  • course: Optimizing well-being and resilience for older Adults (3)

  • course: Management and Leadership in Long-term Care I (3)

  • course: Healthy Aging in Action I (3)

  • course: Master’s Report (5)

Emphasis Elective Coursework

Complete 9 units from the following list, or other with faculty mentor approval. Limit of 3 units of independent study or directed research may count towards this requirement.

  • course: Alzheimer’s Disease, Other Dementias & the Role of Public Health (3)

  • course: Management and Leadership in Long-term Care II (3)

  • course: Human Aging: Across Disciplines (1)

  • course: Human Aging: Local and Global Challenges (1) 

  • course: Fundamentals of Health Budgeting & Financial Manage. (3)

  • course: Public Health Law & Ethics (3)

  • course / course: Healthy Aging for Women (3)

  • course: Mixed Research Methods (3)

  • course: Health Systems Delivery (3)

  • course: Public Health Communications (3)

Additional Emphasis Requirements

  • See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Emphasis Disestablished

This emphasis last admitted students in Fall 2025. Please see previous catalog for program requirements.

Completion requirement

Minimum Emphasis Units

26 (in addition to "Core Major Units" above)

Emphasis Core Coursework Requirements

REQUIRED CONCENTRATION COURSES (20 units)

  • course: Fundamentals of Health Budgeting and Financial Management (3)

  • course: The US Health Care System (3) OR course: Health Systems Delivery (3)

  • course: Advanced Public Health Policy Analysis (3)

  • course: Public Health Policy and Management Field Seminar (2)

  • Service Learning Course - (597 course within the College) approved by faculty mentor (1)

  • course: Science of Health Disparities (3) OR course: Project Design & Implementation In Global Health (3)

  • course: Master’s Report (5)

Emphasis Elective Coursework

Minimum 6 units

Any 500 Level or higher course approved in COPH or other course approved by student’s faculty mentor.

 

Additional Emphasis Requirements

See additional requirements for overall plan above.

Completion requirement

Core Major Units: 16
Additional Emphasis Units: 26 (see emphasis requirements below)
Total Minimum Degree Units: 42

Completion requirement

REQUIRED CORE COURSES (16 units)

  • course: Basic Principles of Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Public Health Policy and Management (3)

  • course: Environmental and Occupational Health (3)

  • course: Biostatistics in Public Health (3)

  • course: Sociocultural & Behavioral Aspects of Public Health (3)

  • course / course / course / course / course: Integrated Public Health Learning Experience (1)

Completion requirement

See elective coursework for emphasis below.

Completion requirement
  • Master's Report Preparation Workshop (required; non-credit)

  • Interprofessional Education Activities (documentation required; non-credit)

Completion requirement