Cornell University is currently accepting applications to our Master of Public Health program, a trans-disciplinary degree program for future leaders in public and global health.

Our first round of admissions review will take place late January 2017, with applicants being informed of their status in February 2017.  Applicants wishing to be included in the first round must submit an application by Wednesday, January 25^th 2017 at 11:59 pm EST.  Our application process is simple, and there are multiple ‘course of study’ options to help meet student and life demands. For more information and to apply, visit www.publichealth.cornell.edu

Recognizing the complexity of public health issues that face our communities, and communities around the globe, Cornell is leveraging its strengths in sciences, humanities, medicine to offer a professional public health training program founded on “One Health” and “Planetary Health”. We believe that these central training themes, complemented by alignment with Cornell’s commitment sustainable leadership and community engagement for impact, will equip our graduates to lead the new and innovative public health interventions that our world needs.

In line with the Council on Education in Public Health’s new public health training criteria, Cornell’s Master of Public Health (MPH) program will focus on strengthening and building our students’ competence in the core areas of public health such that each graduate’s knowledge, skill, and ability is demonstrable to future employers. To achieve this, Cornell’s MPH program will marry small-group classroom-based teaching with engaged case-driven problem solving and active, hands on practice. Students will learn and teach and test and improve their competence on a weekly basis as they build their professional toolkit.

Cornell’s MPH program will be offered on the Ithaca, New York campus, and will draw on faculty, teaching, and mentoring resources from across many colleges and centers, including the College of Veterinary Medicine, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Human Ecology, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Gannett Health, the Skorton Center for Health Initiatives, and the Public Service Center. We will also partner with our Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Tech campuses in New York City. Students will learn about public health through a local and global lens, and will be expected to practice public health through community engagement from day one. Students will be able to do so in a venue of their choosing, in Ithaca, or with partners around the country or the world.

In addition to building general and transferrable public health expertise, students will be asked to select one focal pathway to deepen their content expertise. For this year, the available focal areas are aligned with both real-world public health needs and Cornell University’s institutional strengths.

• Food Systems for Health from production to processing to markets to consumption. Students will learn to take a systems approach to assess and coordinate policies or interventions that ensure safe and sustainable land use, food production, food storage, food processing, food delivery, and consumption. This will include training in toxicology, food safety, food and water security, and/or nutrition. Students will learn how to engage local and global communities to assess systems or needs, develop interventions from a One Health approach, and lead monitoring and evaluation processes to ensure public health needs are being met.

• Infectious Disease Epidemiology including effects of climate change and globalization. Graduates will be prepared to prevent, identify, and respond to emerging viral, bacterial, fungal or parasitic disease outbreaks. Students will learn how to measure and track disease spread, map and disseminate appropriate public health communications, and lead a coordinated emergency response to address the public heath need.

Should you have any questions about your application and the application process, please do not hesitate to reach out to Cecelia Madsen at cgm76@cornell.edu.