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Master of Public Health (M.P.H.)
Program in the History of Public Health and Medicine: Ethics, Policy, and Society
The M.P.H. offered in the Program in the History of Public
Health and Medicine: Ethics, Policy, and Society track is the
only one of its kind. It emphasizes training health professionals in
historical methods and contemporary policy analysis. The program also
provides a unique opportunity to develop an understanding of the
context in which ethical considerations have emerged in public health
and medicine.
Students interested in the impact of history on public policy, public
health measures, and attitudes toward health and illness will find an
opportunity to use history and ethics as a means of informing and
shaping contemporary policy debates.
Public health practitioners, policy analysts, epidemiologists,
clinicians and medical center staff, and clergy, along with recent
college graduates with training or interest in history, ethics,
sociology, political science, philosophy, or other humanities and
social sciences, are encouraged to apply.
The program provides opportunities to study with public health experts,
ethicists, and historians from the Mailman School of Public Health, the
History Department of Columbia University, and other experts in the
field from affiliated centers. In addition to the required School and
Department of Sociomedical Sciences courses, and a sequence of public
health
history, policy, and ethics courses, students will take electives to
develop proficiency in different areas of social, political, and
intellectual history, public health policy and law, or ethics.
For more information about History of Public Health and Medicine: Ethics, Policy, and Society, please contact the track coordinator,
James Colgrove (jc988@columbia.edu).
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