The Master of Public Health (MPH) is the foremost professional degree, recognized worldwide, for those wishing to enter or advance in the field of public health. Our MPH program prepares students with the foundational public health knowledge and competencies to address the most pressing and emerging health problems through six concentrations:

• Community Health Promotion: Students examine the social and behavioral determinants associated with the most pressing health problems in order to improve population health through the design, implementation, and evaluation of health promotion programs. Graduates of this concentration are eligible to sit for the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES®) exam.
• Epidemiology: Students develop strong quantitative skills to investigate and analyze factors that influence the occurrence, distribution, prevention and control of disease. Classes focus on skill development including study design, data collection and management, data analysis and interpretation, and communication of research findings.
• Food Security and Nutrition: Students in this interdisciplinary concentration create population health approaches to implement food security and nutrition programs and policies within a global public health context. Prerequisite: At least one undergraduate nutrition course (e.g., NUTR 295).
• Global Health: Students develop competencies and apply communication skills to promote health in a global context, emphasizing comparative global health metrics; the socioeconomic, environmental, and other risk factors associated with transnational health concerns; and ethical and effective strategies for preventing and controlling infectious and non-communicable diseases in diverse populations.
• Health Policy: Students address the nature and importance of policy and policy-making in today’s public health system in order to engage with public health and advocacy organizations on policy issues and to analyze and support policy approaches in an era of scarce public resources and ever-changing priorities.
• Public Health Communication: Students learn to design, evaluate, and implement effective communication strategies and messages to inform and influence individual and community decisions that affect health. This highly specialized concentration links the fields of communication and public health. [Note: This program is not accepting new students at this time.]

In accordance with the CEPH accreditation standards, students are required to complete coursework in the public health core and one concentration, as well as fieldwork for the applied practice experience. As a CEPH-accredited program, all graduates are eligible to sit for the Certified in Public Health (CPH) examination.

• World Education Services (WES) ICAP Course-by-Course evaluation of academic records from institutions outside the U.S. and English-speaking Canada
• English proficiency test scores for applicants who attended post-secondary institutions outside of the U.S., Canada (excluding the province of Quebec), Commonwealth Caribbean, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, or New Zealand
  • TOEFL: send scores to SOPHAS using code 5688 (minimum score: 88, with at least 20 in each section)
  • IELTS: send scores directly to George Mason University using code 5827 (minimum score: 7.0 total band score, with a minimum of 6.5 in each subsection)

• When applying to the graduate programs offered by the Department of Global and Community Health in SOPHAS, you must include:

• Official U.S./Canadian transcripts from ALL schools attended
• CV/Resume
• Statement of Purpose and Objectives
• Two letters of recommendation
• World Education Services (WES) ICAP course-by-course evaluation of academic records from institutions outside of the U.S. and English-speaking Canada.
• English proficiency test scores for applicants who attended post-secondary institutions outside of the U.S, Canada (excluding the province of Quebec), Commonwealth Caribbean, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, or New Zealand.

Tuition fee-2 years$58,000

Total fee-2 years$1,04,000