Master of Public Health

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Our graduates pursue a wide variety of jobs including clinical exercise physiologist, community outreach and education coordinator, data manager/analyst, environmental scientist, epidemiologist, grant writer/coordinator, health educator, program manager/evaluator, personal trainer, public health analyst, risk assessor, and strength and conditioning specialist. We are home to a community of emerging student scholars and established faculty scholars from multiple health fields applying public health across the health continuum -- ranging from cells and physiology to societal issues and from prevention to treatment. Public health is concerned with protecting the health and well-being of entire communities and populations. It is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health and well-being through the organized efforts of society. Public health also works to eliminate social inequities in health – we address how the advantages and disadvantages that people experience based on their social circumstances influence population health. Whereas medicine mostly treats people once they become sick, those of us working in public health strive to prevent people from getting sick or injured in the first place. Thus, public health covers a wide range of factors that affect population health and well-being, such as economic and social policies, poverty, environmental hazards, access to quality healthcare, health-promoting behaviors, and genes.