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Public Health

M.S. in Public Health

The Master of Science in Public Health is a fully online degree program that prepares students to take on leadership roles in agencies that respond to the most pressing public health problems. Graduates of the MS Public Health are trained to plan and evaluate public health programs, analyze public health policy, manage healthcare industries, and conduct theoretical research in preparation for a Doctoral degree. The curriculum fosters the development of core public health competencies, with coursework in epidemiology, program planning and evaluation, health policy and administration, and applied fieldwork experience.

Employment in public health fields is projected to increase 12 to 28 percent in the next 10 years.

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“Dr. Kelly Bonnar was always very influential, and she helped me realize that I can step out of my comfort zone and ask the questions needed for me to succeed. I love SUNY Potsdam and I can’t imagine being anywhere else.”

Whitney Callaghan ’17 & ’21

Outcomes

Students will be able to:

  • design a proposal to address a health disparity incorporating ideas from a socio-ecological perspective that can be used to address the disparity.
  • select methods to evaluate public health programs.
  • apply epidemiological methods to a public health problem and setting.
  • apply principles of leadership, governance and management in a public health setting.
Coming Full Circle

Ever since graduating from SUNY Potsdam with a degree in community health, Missi Wooldridge ’08 has continued to make a positive impact on the world around her—focusing her career on drug policy reform and harm reduction. This fall, she will be giving back to her alma mater, and returning as an adjunct professor in the College’s fully online master’s degree program in public health.

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Combating Disease Through Education

Like an antibiotic rapidly flowing through the bloodstream to combat an infection, Whitney Callaghan ’17 & ’21 has used her knowledge to help fight the spread of diseases in Northern New York. The SUNY Potsdam alumna took her degree in community health (now public health) and parlayed it into a career with the St. Lawrence County Department of Public Health—where she’s busy overseeing contact tracing efforts in response to COVID-19.

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