{"id":5849,"date":"2020-04-14T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T12:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/?p=5849"},"modified":"2020-04-14T09:07:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T13:07:06","slug":"mini-master-of-public-health-mph-from-boston-university-school-of-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/2020\/04\/14\/mini-master-of-public-health-mph-from-boston-university-school-of-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-Master of Public Health (MPH) from Boston University School of Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s health needs are changing\u2014evolving day to day, sometimes even hour to hour. It is the role of the public health professional to stay apace with these changes to protect and improve the health of populations.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the commitment to ensure access to education around pressing public health issues, Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) now offers a<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>free, online<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>Mini-MPH. The Mini-MPH provides foundational knowledge in public health to all interested learners. The program includes six hours of engaging, online content that covers key concepts of public health, with expert faculty, accessible to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Each component of the Mini-MPH is<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>free, online, and asynchronous<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>What is Public Health?<\/em><\/strong>\u2014Learn about the foundations of public health with BUSPH Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Sandro Galea.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Quantitative Methods for Public Health<\/em><\/strong>\u2014Learn to evaluate and interpret data to make evidence-based decisions to improve health with BUSPH Associate Dean of Education and Professor of Biostatistics, Lisa Sullivan.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Leadership and Management for Public Health<\/em><\/strong>\u2014Learn to communicate with, engage, and organize diverse groups in pursuit of change efforts to improve population health with BUSPH Associate Dean of Public Health Practice, Harold Cox.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Health Systems, Law and Policy<\/em><\/strong>\u2014Examine the constitutional, regulatory, political, and socio-economic bases for policies that determine access, quality, cost and equity in health services and population health programs with BUSPH Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, David Rosenbloom.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Individual, Community and Population Health<\/em><\/strong>\u2014Understand how program design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation improve the health of individuals, communities, and populations with BUSPH Clinical Assistant Professor of Community Health Sciences, Sophie Godley.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See below for more information on the Mini-MPH instructors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full_width_callouts\">\n<div class=\"flex_callout_links theme_course\"><a class=\"flex_callout_link fill\" href=\"https:\/\/populationhealthexchange.org\/learning-opportunities\/mini-mph\/content\/\">ACCESS MINI-MPH<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s health needs are changing\u2014evolving day to day, sometimes even hour to hour. It is the role of the public health professional to stay apace with these changes to protect and improve the health of populations. Because of the commitment to ensure access to education around pressing public health issues, Boston University School of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15447,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[368,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5850,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions\/5850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nephtc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}