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Months to Complete
Our online accelerated Master of Public Health (MPH) program is designed for highly motivated professionals who wish to advance their careers at a faster pace by completing their degree in just 15 months. This intensive program is offered each July and includes the same 42-credit curriculum grounded in health equity and social justice as our traditional MPH program— with a heavier course load per term and shorter time to complete.
Because of the accelerated program’s demanding pace, students are not permitted to work while enrolled.
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Health Equity Change Project
The program covers the traditional core areas of public health:
MPH@Simmons online students explore each core content area with an emphasis on health equity, social justice, and practice-based strategies for addressing population health. Students also customize their learning through an elective course, key program assignments, and the Health Equity Change Project to fit their specific public health interests and professional goals.
Explore the accelerated MPH course sequence.
During two required in-person immersion experiences, students gain hands-on public health experience within different place-based contexts. Our Boston immersion takes place in October, and our Arizona immersion takes place in January and April.
The curriculum culminates in the Health Equity Change Project, an applied learning experience that provides the opportunity to create, implement, and evaluate a public health program or campaign focused on improving health equity in students’ own communities.
Students with the time commitment and drive choose our accelerated MPH program to fast-track their ability to make an impact on public health and health equity. The program, running from one academic summer to the next, is ideal for medical school applicants, those completing residencies who would like to grow their public health expertise during their gap year, and others who can dedicate just over one year to an MPH in order to advance their careers in clinical research, policy, or another area of public health.
Our online MPH program’s combination of innovative coursework, bold leadership, immersive on-the-ground experiences, tools to implement health equity, and hands-on practical learning opportunities help students develop a critical lens and understanding of health equity and social justice — and prepare to address the most intractable public health issues.
MPH@Simmons empowers rising public health change-makers as they:
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