Master of Public Health Degree

Curriculum

Improving Public Health through Research & Service

All degree students take six three-semester credit core courses in addition to track courses. In addition, all students take the two three-semester credit integrative courses, Capstone Project I and Capstone Project II. The Consortium of Eastern Ohio Master of Public Health program is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health.

  • Public Health Concepts
  • Biostatistics in Public Health
  • Epidemiology in Public Health
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health
  • Health Services Administration in Public Health
  • Policy and Environmental Sciences in Public Health
  • Capstone Project I
  • Capstone Project II

Program tracks and certificates

This track is 42 semester credits. Students take three generalist track courses and three electives (totaling 9 semester credits) in addition to the required courses.

  • Grant Writing for Public Health Practice (3 semester credits)
  • Public Health Practice and Issues (3 semester credits)
  • Public Health Research and Evaluation (3 semester credits)

Students must apply through Youngstown State University through the Dietetics MPH program. This track is 43 semester credits. NOTE: This program is not taking new applications at this time.

  • FNUT 5875 Current Nutrition Concepts (3 semester credits)
  • FNUT 6895 Dietetics Practicum (4 semester credits)
  • FNUT 6901 Advanced Nutrition Assessment (3 semester credits)
  • FNUT 6972 Maternal and Child Nutrition Clinical (3 semester credits)
  • FNUT 6973 Nutrition and Aging Clinical (3 semester credits)
  • HAHS 5875 Interprofessional Education for Health Professions (3 semester credits)

Students must apply through Cleveland State University’s Health Sciences Accelerated 4+1 BS/MPH or Youngstown State University’s 4+1 Bachelor of Science in Applied Science/MPH program. All students complete MPH required courses and the generalist track courses.

Students may also opt to complete a certificate program. Credits may be used toward the MPH degree.

Graduate Certificate in Public Health

Public health has grown to encompass many disciplines and to focus on disease prevention in communities and across healthcare settings.  The Graduate Certificate in Public Health provides foundational skills and knowledge in public health for those who wish to create healthier communities. This certificate consists of six required courses for a total of 18 credits.

Required Courses:
MPH  501   Public Health Concepts
MPH  504   Biostatistics in Public Health
MPH  502   Social/Behavioral Sciences in Public Health
MPH  503   Epidemiology in Public Health
MPH  605   Health Services Administration in Public Health
MPH  606   Policy and Environmental Sciences in Public Health

Graduate Certificate in Public Health Research

Public health has grown to encompass many disciplines and to focus on disease prevention in communities and across healthcare settings.  The Graduate Certificate in Public Health Research provides foundational skills and knowledge in conducting health research with local communities. This certificate consists of four required courses for a total of 12 credits.

Required Courses:
MPH  504   Biostatistics & Public Health
MPH  502   Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health
MPH  503   Epidemiology & Public Health
MPH  609   Public Health Research & Evaluation

Graduate Certificate in Public Health Administration

Public health has grown to encompass many disciplines and to focus on disease prevention in communities and across healthcare settings.  The Graduate Certificate in Public Health Practice provides foundational skills and knowledge in working with local communities, government agencies and community-based non-profit agencies to develop health initiatives and evaluate their outcomes. This certificate consists of four required courses for a total of 12 credits.

Required Courses:
MPH  501   Public Health Concepts
MPH  605   Health Services Administration in Public Health
MPH  606   Policy and Environmental Sciences in Public Health
MPH  691   Grant Writing in Public Health Practice

Students in the generalist track may take nine credits of electives at any of the partner institutions. Students may register for any of the courses listed on the “Approved Electives List (lower in this section)” without formal MPH Curriculum Committee approval. This Committee approves electives by request at each meeting. If forms are not submitted in a timely fashion, the student runs the risk of not having the elective accepted as MPH credit. For a course to be approved as an elective, the following criteria must apply:

  • The course must be a graduate level course.
  • The course must have public health relevance.
  • If the course is a swing course (offered on an undergraduate and graduate level), it must have assignments specifically for the graduate student.
  • The course must not be redundant to one of the CEOMPH core courses.

University Class Schedules

Below are the links to the courses that are available at the universities. Make sure you select “graduate” level courses in the appropriate semester. If you see a course of interest, check the approved electives listing below to see if it is pre-approved. If not, ask the department for a syllabus, and the MPH Curriculum Committee can review it for approval. These university listings are the most current.

Approved Electives List

Updated Aug. 25, 2021

Elective Course Approval

To take an elective course that does not appear on the “Approved Electives List,” students should send a syllabus (electronic copy preferred) with an email request to the MPH office for Curriculum Committee approval at least six weeks before the class starts at pubhlth@neomed.edu.

Courses Based on a Different Campus

If a student wishes to take a course on a campus different from her/his home university, a cross registration form must be completed at least six weeks before the class starts. The student should have her/his academic advisor sign it. The form will then be routed to the appropriate parties. Your academic advisor will need to tell you how to register for the course (in some cases, a number needs to be assigned). After the completion of the course, your grade will be routed back to your home university. On some transcripts, the course will be listed with “Special Topics” or “ST” indicated before the course name.

Transfer Credit

Graduate credit earned in graduate schools at other institutions may be transferred to the CEOMPH program under the following conditions:

  • Transferred graduate credit must be approved via application. The student must provide a course description (e.g. syllabus or photocopy of the course description from the graduate school catalog or web site of the institution where the course was taken) and official transcript. Transfer credit must be earned at an accredited institution.
  • The student must have regular graduate student status and be in good standing. Credits will be transferred only after the student has completed 12 semester hours or 16 quarter hours in the program with a GPA of 3.0 or better.
  • Up to nine semester or twelve quarter credit hours (up to three semester or four quarter credits for core courses and six semester or eight quarter credits for electives; or nine semester or twelve quarter credits for electives) of the total credits required for the MPH may be transferred from an accredited college or university, including one of the partnering institutions.
  • All transfer credit must be at the A or B level in graduate courses. No transfer of graduate credit will be permitted for courses in which a grade less than B was earned or courses graded S or U.
  • Grades earned in courses accepted for transfer will not be computed in the GPA issued by the CEOMPH program.
  • The credits must be relevant to the student’s program as determined by the CEOMPH Curriculum Committee, and must fall within the six-year time limit to complete degree requirements. Requests for an extension of the six-year limit must be approved by the CEOMPH Curriculum Committee and approved by the appropriate Dean of the student’s home university.
  • Transfer credit for core courses must come from Council on Education for Public Health accredited programs or as approved by the Curriculum Committee.

Capstone Project (Integrative Learning Experience)

The capstone project is your culminating product of the Consortium of Eastern Ohio Master of Public Health program. We would like to make sure that you have an experience that will help you put together everything that you learned in the program. Previous students have had some wonderful projects. At times, some of these experiences launched their future career interests or opened another field of opportunity.

The capstone project has been broken into two three-credit hour courses—Capstone Project I and Capstone Project II.

Capstone Project I includes a series of exercises that assesses students on targeted public health competencies. Students asked to incorporate competencies that need to be strengthened into their final capstone projects. The second half of the course is guided project development using the C3P20 modules. Faculty will help guide students on selecting one of four booklets: research, assessment/evaluation, quality improvement, and other. Each booklet contains ten modules, which move students systematically through the process of developing a proposal, from the selection of a topic through the final proposal.
Examples of past projects:

  • Communication Preferences of the Northeast Ohio Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community in Health Care Settings
  • Assessment of Cuyahoga County Resident’s Primary Motivators and Barriers to participating in Rust Belt Riders’ Composting Services
  • Investigating the Impact of Pathway HUB Services on Infant Birth Outcomes: An Evaluation of the Akron Summit Pathways HUB
  • Wellness For Teachers to Promote Positive Health in High Stress Environments
  • Quality Improvement Project to Improve Summa Internal Medicine Resident Goal Setting with Patients for Chronic Disease Self-Management
  • Tracking Quality of Clinical Care Measures After Initiation of Telemedicine Services at a Local FQHC after COVID19
  • Quality Improvement Study to Improve HbA1C levels in the Adult Refugee Population at a Local Federally Qualified Health Center
  • Identifying the Healthcare Needs of Queer Parents in Greater Cleveland
  • Geographic and Statistical Associations of Tree Canopy and Public Health in Cuyahoga County
  • Planning Ohio’s First Childhood Cancer Summit
  • COVID-19 Impacts on Psychological Stress Among Cleveland-area Residents Who Use Food Pantries
  • Assessing Best Practices for Assessment of Patient Satisfaction in Patients with Limited English Proficiency

Contact

Amy Lee, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A
Program Director
Phone: 330.325.6164
Email: afl@neomed.edu

Master of Public Health

College of Graduate Studies