NEW Global Health Concentration Competencies for the Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree (2018)

Target Audience

Master of Public Health (MPH) students concentrating in global health upon graduation from a Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)-accredited school or program of public health

Tenets

The concentration competencies below are built upon the following tenets to:

• Inform curricular planning for CEPH-accredited schools and programs by offering examples to fulfill CEPH’s requirements for “at least five distinct competencies for each concentration”
• Serve as a roadmap to improve education for global health
• Prepare students, upon MPH degree completion with a specialization in global health, for a trajectory to assume roles across local, national, regional, and transnational settings

Global Health Concentration Competencies for the MPH Degree

1. Analyze the roles, relationships, and resources of the entities influencing global health
2. Apply ethical approaches in global health research and practice
3. Apply monitoring and evaluation techniques to global health programs, policies, and outcomes
4. Propose sustainable and evidence-based multi-sectoral interventions, considering the social determinants of health specific to the local area
5. Design sustainable workforce development strategies for resource-limited settings
6. Display critical self-reflection, cultural humility, and ongoing learning in global health

IMPORTANT NOTE:  These global health concentration competencies for the Master of Public Health (MPH) degree recommendations represent the results of a broad national and global consensus and are offered by ASPPH for voluntary consideration, use, adaptation, or adoption by all CEPH-accredited institutions and those seeking accreditation.

• Full Report

  Global Health Concentration Competencies for the MPH Degree

• Toolkit

  This toolkit is designed to assist faculty in integrating the MPH global health concentration competencies into their curricula, using the following teaching aids:

  • Definitions (competency model, domain, competency)
  • Background on the competencies
  • Sample learning objectives
  • Tips for developing coursework and sample curriculum content
  • Listing of exemplar resources

  In addition to the teaching aids, the appendix includes an extensive sample of sub-competencies and learning objectives for consideration in supplementing CEPH’s Accreditation Criteria for Foundational Knowledge (D1) and Foundational Competencies (D2) for the MPH Degree.

  MPH Global Health Concentration Competencies Toolkit

   

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View the Prior Global Health Competency Model (2011)

While the 2016 Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) core competency requirements for Master of Public Health (MPH) degrees rendered ASPPH’s 2011 competency model obsolete, it is still available,  here, as useful for faculty and students in global health programs across a broad range of non-CEPH-accredited public health institutions and schools and programs outside of public health – schools of international relations/affairs, business schools, law schools and, of course, other health professions’ schools, such as those in medicine and nursing, as well as programs in the biological and social sciences.