In have responded to student involve, Sacred Heart University in Farifield is lending a master of public health curriculum with a dusk 2018 launching -- and platform lead Anna Greer couldn't be more pleased .
" I'm unusually elicited about it ," supposed Greer, an assistant professor at Sacred Heart since 2011 and superintendent of the undergraduate program conductor in practise science." We have a growing number of students who are interested in going a graduate degree in public health, but they've been going to other institutions to do so ."
In addition to the field of practice discipline or kinesiology, students seeking the "bachelors degree" in public health will be introduced to public health beliefs, program planning, community health occurrence, subsidy writing, epidemiology and biostatistics, health administration and ethics, according to Greer. The 48 -credit curriculum can be completed in two years by full-time both students and is also is accessible to part-time students .
Adding such postgraduate planneds at SHU implies a multistage overture process that will cover vetting by department across a number of penalties , not all related to health sciences .
" The one question that is frequently expected is,' What is the need for a programme designed ?'" Greer supposed." We look to see if there's a divergence in what we already furnish and be determined whether enough people are interested in it. The university has been very successful at crowding those demands ."
Having received the university's approval, the masters' planned now must be accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health, an independent busines recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit academies of public health and public health planneds outside class of public health. Sacred Heart will submit an application to begin that process abruptly, Greer enunciated .
Candidates for the grad curriculum must have a bachelor's degree in any major from a four-year accredited university with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Additionally, they must have earned a C position or highest in college-level pre-calculus, statistics and sociology or psychology .
" I want to build a program that facilitates the development of other qualified public health professionals committed to and energized about improving society health ," read Greer. She estimated that the initial class will be incorporated in 15 to 20 students, and said the search for three core faculty members should be underway by this come .