Master of Public Health (MPH)
Learn to take on the new challenges public health professionals face with the help of our Master of Public Health degree program.
Learn to take on the new challenges public health professionals face with the help of our Master of Public Health degree program.
From fighting infectious diseases to reducing health disparities, public health professionals across the globe face new challenges every day.
Walden’s online Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program provides the following:
Reflecting Walden’s decades of commitment to positive social change, the online Master of Public Health degree program prepares you to improve the health of communities and deal with health disparities within a wide range of settings.
Vision
Healthy communities through positive social change.
Mission
The mission of the MPH program at Walden University is to provide high-quality education that enables a diverse public health work force of practitioners, researchers, and educators to excel at addressing public health challenges, promoting positive social change, and ensuring healthy communities at local, national, and international levels.
Goals
The program strives to fulfill its mission through excellent performance via instruction, scholarship, and service activities. The program goals for these three areas are as follows:
The core values of the MPH program at Walden University include quality, professional integrity, and student-centeredness.
Public health is an exciting and rewarding field with a wide range of career opportunities. Whether you want to design and implement health programs, develop public health policy, administer public health services, or conduct research, Walden’s MPH program provides the expertise you need to advance your career and move into roles such as:
Career options may require additional experience, training, or other factors beyond the successful completion of this degree program.
Public health is a wide field that attracts people from diverse educational and professional backgrounds—from mathematics undergrads who pursue careers in biostatistics to ecologists committed to protecting our environmental health to business people dedicated to improving health program administration.
Regardless of background or specialty, aspiring public health professionals are driven to make a broad, lasting impact on health, not only in their own communities but also all over the world.
Depending upon your focus area, your public health career opportunities are expected to grow as fast or faster than the average for all other occupations in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Here are job growth projections and educational requirements for several major public health career categories1:
| Public Health Occupation | Job Growth 2012–2022 |
|---|---|
| Statistician | 27% (Much faster than average) |
| Epidemiologist | 10% (As fast as average) |
| Health educator or community health worker | 21% (Faster than average) |
| Social worker | 19% (Faster than average) |
| Medical and health services managers | 23% (Much faster than average) |
Career options may require additional experience, training, or other factors beyond the successful completion of this degree program.
While it is possible to gain valuable experience working in the field, many public health careers require a graduate degree, such as an MPH degree, for entry or advancement.
A Master of Public Health degree is a good investment if you want to:
Graduates of our online Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program will be prepared to:
Find detailed information for this program, including possible occupations, completion rate, program costs, and median student loan debt.
The most rewarding aspect of pursuing my degree at Walden University is that I am in control of my future.
I continue to find the academic legitimacy at Walden to be far superior to other online institutions.
I chose the Master of Public Health program because I realized it would allow me to pursue becoming a health educator and professor.
Note on Program Accreditation
Walden University is an applicant for accreditation by the Council on Education for Public Health. This accreditation review will address the Master of Public Health (MPH) program. Other degrees and areas of study offered by this institution will not be included in the unit of accreditation review.
Note on Certification:
The National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE) offers the Certified in Public Health (CPH) credential as a voluntary core credential for public health professionals. Individuals who have a bachelor’s degree and at least five subsequent years of public health work experience will be eligible to take the CPH exam. However, for individuals without these qualifications, a candidate must be an alumni of a school or program of public health accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH).
While Walden's MPH program is an applicant for CEPH accreditation, the program is not yet accredited; thus, Walden MPH graduates must have at least five years of post-baccalaureate public health work experience in order to sit for the CPH exam. Students should evaluate all requirements related to national credentialing agencies and exams for the state in which he or she intends to practice. Walden makes no representations or guarantee that completion of Walden coursework or programs will permit an individual to obtain national certification. For more information about the CPH credential, students should visit https://www.nbphe.org.
CEPH Accreditation Applicant Status
Walden University’s Master of Public Health (MPH) program is currently an applicant for accreditation through the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH).
Our preliminary self-study report was submitted to CEPH in September 2018, and our final self-study report was submitted to CEPH in March 2019. A team of external reviewers, selected by CEPH, conducted an on-site visit April 29–30, 2019. CEPH Board of Councilors will formally notify Walden’s MPH program of their accreditation decision in early October 2019.
1Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 Edition, on the Internet at www.bls.gov/ooh/ (viewed online February 11, 2014). National long-term projections may not reflect local and/or short-term economic or job conditions and do not guarantee actual job growth.
