Master of Public Health & Tropical Medicine

About the MPH&TM Program
The MPH&TM program prepares health professionals with clinical backgrounds to deal with the important public health problems of tropical developing countries. By combining a core public health curriculum with coursework on the clinical, epidemiological, and control aspects of tropical diseases, this program prepares physicians to understand tropical medicine from various perspectives; it also prepares the participants to evaluate and plan disease prevention and control programs.

Graduates of the MPH&TM degree program are prepared to:

• Work overseas in disease control programs within tropical developing countries at the local, provincial, national or international level.
• Evaluate epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory data generated by disease control programs in tropical developing countries, and use those data to develop and test new programs to better serve the needs of those countries.
• Train paramedical workers to carry out disease programs and evaluate the impact of those workers on disease control.
• Teach the most important diagnostic and management aspects of clinical tropical medicine and traveler’s health.
• Explain the complex biologic, epidemiologic, environmental, social and behavioral aspects of health and disease in developing countries.

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