Created in collaboration with the highly acclaimed NYU School of Medicine, the five-year MD/MPH in Global Health offers you the opportunity to integrate medical training with public health from a global health perspective. At completion of this full-time program, you will have earned a Doctor of Medicine (MD) and a Master of Public Health (MPH), starting you off in a prime position for advanced career options in either field.
You’ll augment your clinical medical training with public health skills, allowing you to understand the complexity of disease prevention, health promotion, and health care delivery in the globalized world.
The MD/MPH follows a specially designed curriculum that allows students to complete both degrees in four or five years of full-time study. Medical students accepted to the dual degree program will generally first fulfill their MD requirements in the first two or three years of the program followed by a year of MPH degree coursework. The remaining 2 MPH courses (2 credits each semester) of the Applied Practice Experience and Culminating Experience Seminar, are completed in evening classes during the final year of the MD program.
MD/MPH students are not required to take GPH-GU 2190 Essentials of Public Health Biology course; instead they take Foundations of Clinical Medicine through the School of Medicine. The goal of this 13-week, 9.4 credit course is to provide public health knowledge that is equal to at least 2-credits of public health instructional time. In addition, this course covers content such as medical genetics, biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, histopathology, immunology, host defense and its involvement in health and disease. It is organized into blocks: genetics, molecular biology, cell biology, metabolism and cancer, and host defense.
Year 1 - MD program only
Year 2 - MD program only
Year 3 - MPH program only
Fall - 18 credits
GPH-GU 2106 Epidemiology (3)
GPH-GU 5380 Data-Driven Decision-Making in Global Public Health (3)*
GPH-GU 2120 Foundations of Global Health (3)
GPH-GU 2140 Global Issues in Social and Behavioral Health (3)
Elective (3)
Elective (3)
GPH-GU 5171 Global Health Informatics Workshop (0)
GPH-GU 5175 Readings in the History and Philosophy of Public Health I (0)
Spring - 18 credits
GPH-GU 2110 Health Care Policy (1.5)
GPH-GU 2112 Public Health Management & Leadership (1.5)
GPH-GU 2153 Global Environmental Health (3)
GPH-GU 2220 Applying Systems Thinking to Global Health Practice (3)*
GPH-GU 2995 Biostatistics for Public Health (3)
Elective (3)
Elective (3)
GPH-GU 5180 Readings in the History and Philosophy of Public Health II (0)
GPH-GU 5185 Readings in the History and Philosophy of Public Health III (0)
Year 4 - MD and MPH Programs
Fall - 2 credits
GPH-GU 2359 Applied Practice Experience Seminar (2)
Spring - 2 credits
GPH-GU 2360 Integrative Learning Experiences Seminar (2)
* prior to Spring 2024, this course was called Accelerating Progress Towards Health-Related SDGs
The MD/MPH follows a specially designed curriculum that allows students to complete both degrees in four or five years of full-time study. Medical students accepted to the dual degree program will generally first fulfill their MD requirements in the first two or three years of the program followed by a year of MPH degree coursework. The remaining 2 MPH courses (2 credits each semester) of the Applied Practice Experience and Culminating Experience Seminar, are completed in evening classes during the final year of the MD program.
MD/MPH students are not required to take GPH-GU 2190 Essentials of Public Health Biology course; instead they take Foundations of Clinical Medicine through the School of Medicine. The goal of this 13-week, 9.4 credit course is to provide public health knowledge that is equal to at least 2-credits of public health instructional time. In addition, this course covers content such as medical genetics, biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, histopathology, immunology, host defense and its involvement in health and disease. It is organized into blocks: genetics, molecular biology, cell biology, metabolism and cancer, and host defense.
Year 1 - MD program only
Year 2 - MD program only
Year 3 - MD program only
Year 4 - MPH Program Only
Fall - 18 credits
GPH-GU 2106 Epidemiology (3)
GPH-GU 5380 Data-Driven Decision-Making in Global Public Health (3)*
GPH-GU 2120 Foundations of Global Health (3)
GPH-GU 2140 Global Issues in Social and Behavioral Health (3)
Elective (3)
Elective (3)
GPH-GU 5171 Global Health Informatics Workshop (0)
GPH-GU 5175 Readings in the History and Philosophy of Public Health I (0)
Spring - 18 credits
GPH-GU 2110 Health Care Policy (1.5)
GPH-GU 2112 Public Health Management & Leadership (1.5)
GPH-GU 2153 Global Environmental Health (3)
GPH-GU 2220 Applying Systems Thinking to Global Health Practice (3)*
GPH-GU 2995 Biostatistics for Public Health (3)
Elective (3)
Elective (3)
GPH-GU 5180 Readings in the History and Philosophy of Public Health II (0)
GPH-GU 5185 Readings in the History and Philosophy of Public Health III (0)
Year 4 - MD and MPH Programs
Fall - 2 credits
GPH-GU 2359 Applied Practice Experience Seminar (2)
Spring - 2 credits
GPH-GU 2360 Integrative Learning Experiences Seminar (2)
* prior to Spring 2024, this course was called Accelerating Progress Towards Health-Related SDGs
What Can I Do with This Degree?
Career options for MD/MPH students are wide-ranging and limited only by a student’s own interests, backgrounds, and ambitions. Students might go on to such positions as commissioner of a health department, director/president of an NGO, senior executive at a healthcare institution, clinician in a developing country, or working with immigrant populations in the U.S. Students who pursue clinical medicine may continue to be involved in advocacy or policy development on local or global issues.
How Do I Apply?
Typically, this program is open to students who have already been accepted to, and matriculated in, the School of Medicine. You generally apply to the program in your third year of medical school with coursework leading to the MPH in Global Health beginning at the end of the third year.
You must apply separately and be admitted to both the MD and MPH programs: MD program application and instructions and MPH program application and instructions.
Current medical students applying to the program must register their intent to apply with the Director of Dual MD/Masters Programs prior to the application deadline.
Students applying to both the School of Medicine and the NYU MPH concurrently should alert the Medical School Admissions Office of their intent to do so.
For More Information
NYU Master of Public Health Program
gph.admissions@nyu.edu
212-992-6741
NYU School of Medicine - Office of Dual MD/Masters Programs
Joseph Oppedisano
Joseph.oppedisano@med.nyu.edu
(212) 263-3804
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Are you ready to reinvent the global public health paradigm with a dual degree in medicine and public health? Apply to the MD program and apply to the MPH program today!