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The College of Public Health at Kent State University prepares students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in public health careers.
The College of Public Health graduate degrees include:
- The Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) in Biostatistics is a STEM-designated advanced degree that prepares students in the quantitative science of health data collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, and interpretation. Graduates can use statistical methods to design and analyze health-related surveys and experiments to improve health. The college's faculty research interests include applying biostatistical analysis to understand critical health problems. Graduates in biostatistics are in demand at hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, state, and local health departments, federal health agencies, and biotechnology companies to analyze the effectiveness of new drugs and interventions, identify disease risk factors, and develop effective prevention strategies.
- The Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) in Epidemiology is a STEM-designated advanced degree that prepares students to analyze the distribution and determinants of disease, disabilities, and death in populations. Graduates can apply quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate disease outbreaks, determine causal relationships between environmental and biological factors, and conduct studies to project population health trends. Students benefit from public health faculty research agendas in bio-preparedness, public health surveillance systems, chronic disease, cancer, and infectious disease epidemiology. Career opportunities for graduates include research positions in universities, medical schools, and pharmaceutical companies; disease prevention specialists in hospitals; and surveillance managers in state and local health departments.
- The Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) - Health Policy and Management concentration prepares students to address public health risks and develop effective health service delivery models. This concentration incorporates health services research, policy analysis, and planning and management. Given the active research of the college's faculty in identifying service gaps and in developing evidence-based practices and policy analysis, students emerge with solid skills in health services management, alternative models of service financing, and strategies for improving services. Career opportunities for graduates include administrative and management positions in hospitals, clinics, state and local health departments, nursing homes, and mental health facilities; policy analyst positions in health planning organizations and governmental agencies; and planning and management positions in health maintenance organizations and health insurance companies.
- The Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) - Social and Behavioral Sciences concentration provides students with an interdisciplinary approach to improving health in populations across the life course. Students learn to apply theoretical principles to design, implement, and evaluate effective programs that include behavioral and environmental approaches. Graduates can design and evaluate public health interventions intended to improve health for families, workplaces, communities, and other settings. The active research of the college's faculty—particularly in mental health, childhood obesity, violence and injury prevention, substance abuse prevention, and chronic disease prevention—allows students to work on large-scale, externally funded prevention research. Students are prepared for careers in health promotion, program design and evaluation, and prevention program development for state and local health departments, workplace health promotion programs, hospitals, international health agencies, mental health centers, and non-profit organizations.
- The Master of Science degree in Clinical Epidemiology is a STEM-designated advanced degree that prepares students in the epidemiological and biostatistical methods related to clinical trials and clinical research. Students learn advanced methods of observational and experimental study designs and are able to understand disease prevention, development, prognosis and treatment. In addition, students master and are able to apply good clinical practices, clinical trial design and management, statistical analysis, study monitoring, pharmaceutical research and regulations related to clinical research.
Contact Information
- College of Public Health Dean's Office | CPHgradapps@kent.edu | +1-330-672-6500
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