First M.P.H. in U.S. to be Led Jointly by Schools of Medicine and Psychology
Newswise — Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, both of Yeshiva University, have announced a collaborative new Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degree program. This program is the first M.P.H. program in the U.S. led jointly by a school of medicine and a school of psychology, underscoring an emphasis on the behavioral and social influences of health.
The 42-credit M.P.H. program, offered as a 13-month full-time program or a 30-month part-time program, offers an emphasis on community-based research in the areas of prevention, chronic conditions, health disparities, and global health. Its focus is on practice-based research that can lead to evidence-based approaches to inform public health policy and practice. The program’s interdisciplinary approach enables students to integrate concepts and methods from the social and behavioral sciences, epidemiology and population health, global health, and ethics. The overall training goal is to produce leaders in applied public health research who will contribute to improved population health and help promote community well-being and social justice.
“We feel that it’s really important to train people to be able to deal with contemporary public health problems,” said Cheryl Merzel, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., director for the M.P.H. program. “So many health problems are rooted in behaviors, which are influenced by social conditions. For example, to deal with the health epidemics of obesity and diabetes we also have to tackle things like community access to affordable healthy foods.”
“The program prepares graduates to conduct applied public health research in a variety of settings, including health departments, health care facilities, non-profit organizations, and academia,” added Paul Marantz, M.D., M.P.H., co-director of the Institute for Public Health Sciences (IPHS) of Yeshiva University, as well as associate dean for clinical research education and professor of clinical epidemiology & population health at Einstein. “The collaboration leverages a range of faculty from various disciplines to train leaders who are committed both to improving public health and to contributing to scholarship in their respective fields.” The M.P.H. program is housed within the Institute for Public Health Sciences, headquartered at the Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus of Einstein and Ferkauf, in the Bronx. The program is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2010. The deadline for applications is Thursday, April 15, 2010. Additional information and the application form is available at www.yu.edu/iphs.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University is one of the nation’s premier centers for research, medical education and clinical investigation. During the 2009-2010 academic year, Einstein is home to 2,775 faculty members, 722 M.D. students, 243 Ph.D. students, 128 students in the combined M.D./Ph.D. program, and approximately 350 postdoctoral research fellows. In 2009, Einstein received more than $155 million in support from the NIH. This includes the funding of major research centers at Einstein in diabetes, cancer, liver disease, and AIDS. Other areas where the College of Medicine is concentrating its efforts include developmental brain research, neuroscience, cardiac disease, and initiatives to reduce and eliminate ethnic and racial health disparities. Through its extensive affiliation network involving five medical centers in the Bronx, Manhattan and Long Island – which includes Montefiore Medical Center, The University Hospital and Academic Medical Center for Einstein – the College of Medicine runs one of the largest post-graduate medical training programs in the United States, offering approximately 150 residency programs to more than 2,500 physicians in training. For more information, please visit www.einstein.yu.edu
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