MPH Program Mission and Goals
Mission Statement:
The mission of the University of Virginia's Master of Public Health Program is to provide an interdisciplinary, academic environment where students develop comprehensive public health knowledge, skills, and professional values; where students identify and pursue individualized educational and professional goals in research and practice; and where faculty and students collaborate with community partners on public health research and serve the community through public health interventions.
Program Goals:
To create an interdisciplinary, academic setting where students explore a wide range of perspectives on public health and work with faculty members with diverse interests, expertise, and professional backgrounds.
To provide students with a rigorous public health education and ensure that they attain knowledge in the core areas of public health.
To foster the identification and realization of individual public health competencies related to each student's unique personal and professional goals.
To offer a variety of public health opportunities to students through coursework in their specialty track, field placements, and culminating experiences that will prepare them for roles in the public health workforce.
To work continually to improve the health of populations by providing service and consultation to public health agencies and organizations at the local, state, national and international level.
To provide an academic environment that encourages and enables faculty, students and collaborating public health organizations to conduct research at the forefront of the dynamic fields of public health science and practice.