MPH Education for the 21st Century: Motivation, Rationale, and Key Principles for the New Columbia Public Health Curriculum

Public health is at a watershed moment. The world's health needs are changing, and complex problems require interdisciplinary approaches and systems-based solutions. Our longer lives and changing environments necessitate life-course and structural approaches to prevention. This argues strongly...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2014, Vol.104 (1), p.23-30
Main Authors: FRIED, Linda P, BEGG, Melissa D, BAYER, Ronald, GALEA, Sandro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
21st century
Aging
Behavior modification
Biological and medical sciences
Cellular telephones
Chronic illnesses
Core curriculum
Curricula
Curriculum
Demographics
Disease
Education, Professional - trends
Effective Public Health Program Implementation
Epidemics
General aspects
Globalization
Graduate studies
Health education
Human capital
Humans
Medical personnel
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Models, Educational
Motivation
New York City
Population
Public health
Public Health - education
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Sexual health
Teaching. Deontology. Ethics. Legislation
Universities
Urban areas
Urbanization
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Summary:Public health is at a watershed moment. The world's health needs are changing, and complex problems require interdisciplinary approaches and systems-based solutions. Our longer lives and changing environments necessitate life-course and structural approaches to prevention. This argues strongly for public health graduate education that adequately prepares trainees to tackle emerging challenges and to lead now and in the future. Nearly a century of scholarship and scientific advances may offer a blueprint for training the next generation of public health leaders. We articulate a case for change; discuss some of the foundational principles that should guide public health education; and discuss what such a change might look like building on prior scholarship, on the examples set by other disciplines, and on our own experience.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2013.301399