Quick facts
Program location: OnlineCredit hours: 42
Est. time to complete: 2 years
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MPH in Leadership & Public Health Practice
As
a student in this online program, you’ll gain the skills needed to take the
next step in your career and ground your work in the foundations of public
health. We offer all of the required courses
online—in both asynchronous and synchronous formats. We don't run on a cohort
model so you can adjust your coursework on a semester-by-semester basis to accommodate your work or personal schedule.
Quick facts, careers, and skills
When you leave this program, you’ll be ready to move up in public-health-driven organizations, taking on new challenges and expanding the scope of your work.
Credit hours: 42
Est. time to complete: 2 years
Sample careers
Program directorHospital administrator
Project manager
& more
Skills you'll gain
Resource managementPublic health administration
Leadership
& more
Curriculum
This
42-credit hour program includes practice-based learning experiences. With courses in all five core areas of public health,
ranging from biostatistics to health policy, you’ll learn the fundamentals of
the discipline. You’ll also gain the management, budgeting, evaluation, and public
health administration experience you need to become an effective leader and
manager, and you'll tailor your coursework to your passions with nine
elective credits.
Total credits: 42
Competencies
| Identifier | Competencies |
| MPH-LPHP 1 | Interpret and develop an implementation plan for public health laws, regulations and policies. |
| MPH-LPHP 2 | Articulate a personal development plan, including an achievable mission, set of core values and vision and use these to guide personal and professional action. |
| MPH-LPHP 3 | Identify issues, internal and external to an organization that may impact delivery of essential public health services. |
| MPH-LPHP 4 | Facilitate collaborative decision-making by listening to others in an unbiased manner, respecting points of view of others and promoting the expression of diverse opinions and perspectives. |
| MPH-LPHP 5 | Develop mechanisms to monitor and evaluate programs for their effectiveness and quality. |
| MPH-LPHP 6 | Apply the principles of program planning, development, implementation, budgeting, management and evaluation to organizational or community initiatives. |
| MPH-LPHP 7 | Create a feasible and theoretically-grounded issue action plan to solve or alleviate a public health concern defined by community stakeholders. |
Colorado School of Public Health
CU Anschutz
Fitzsimons Building
13001 East 17th Place
3rd Floor
Mail Stop B119
Aurora, CO 80045
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