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Graduate Program in Public Health

MISSION AND GOALS

Graduate Program in Public Health Mission Statement
The mission of the SUNY Downstate Graduate Program in Public Health is to advance public health knowledge, promote health and well-being, and prevent disease and disability within communities, particularly in urban and immigrant communities.  Such actions are accomplished through excellence in the education of public health professionals, scientific investigation of public health issues, and service to communities through collaborative partnerships.

Goals:

  • To provide an academic environment for public health education, research, and practice in an urban setting with an emphasis on urban and immigrant health.

  • To educate individuals through an academic program that prepares graduates to identify, address, and resolve public health issues and manage public health programs in diverse settings, especially urban environments with different racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, and socioeconomic groups.

  • To advance public health knowledge through scientific investigation of health and disease, with a focus on urban and immigrant health issues.

  • To disseminate and interpret research results to professionals, patients, individuals and their families, and the public.

  • To advance the health of communities through collaborative public health approaches to health promotion and disease prevention and intervention.

Public Health Competencies
The Public Health competencies incorporated into our MPH & DrPH curricula are taken directly from the
Association of Schools of Public Health's webpage on Systems Thinking.
Click here for a detailed listing of the competencies.

More information about Systems Thinking is available at http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=898.