MPH Program | International Health

MPH Program

The coursework available at BUSPH, coupled with the breadth and flexibility of the concentration, allows domestic and foreign students to craft a program well suited to their own professional needs.

Core Requirements

All International Health concentrators may fulfill the MPH core requirements as follows:

Behavioral Sciences may be met by taking either
SB721 Social and Behavioral Sciences for Public Health or
IH720 Social and Behavioral Sciences and International Public Health.

Health Services may be met by taking

HS 702 Introduction to Health Services or
IH 704 Comparative Health Services: Organization, Delivery, and Financing; and
only if a non-U.S. citizen or permanent resident, the Summer Certificate Program.

International Health concentrators must also complete the MPH core requirements.

Note: All international, nonresident students (students who have neither U.S. citizenship nor resident alien immigration status) are exempted from the health law MPH core requirement.

To fulfill concentration requirements, students must select a minimum of 16 credits from the following course and certificate program list.

IH 700 Health in Lower-Income and Transitional Countries: Issues and Approaches
IH 725 Teaching Public Health: Design and Evaluation of Competency-based Instruction
IH 731 Designing, Renewing, and Leading Health Care Organizations
IH 735 Power, Gender, and Development
IH 736 Current Issues in International Health
IH 742 Medical Anthropology in Public Health
IH 747 Topics in International Health
IH 749 Health Care Management for Developing Countries
IH 755 Public Health Management in Disasters and Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
IH 760 Health Systems Research for Developing Countries
IH 761 Essentials of Economics for International Health
IH 763 Financial Management for International Health
IH 777 International Health Concentration Paper Seminar
IH 809 Essential Quantitative Techniques in Population Analysis for Public Health
IH 810 Public Health Writing
IH 820 Pharmaceutical Policy and Programming Issues for Developing Countries
IH 830 Human Resource Management for Developing Countries
IH 840 Advanced Mortality Analysis for Public Health
IH 881 Population Dynamics and Reproductive Health Programs
IH 883 Management of Reproductive Health Programs in Developing Countries
IH 887 Planning and Managing Maternal and Child Health Programs in Developing Countries
IH 888 Seminar on International Health Policy Issues
IH 941 Directed Studies in International Health
IH 942 Directed Research in International Health