Are you ready to dive deep into the transformative power of mindfulness? Our Mindfulness Track equips you with essential competencies to evaluate its impact on physical and mental health, analyze various interventions, and assess the underlying mechanisms at play.

What You’ll Learn:

1. Evidence Evaluation: Discover the science behind mindfulness and its effects on well-being (PHP1880).
2. Mindfulness Practices: Explore the strengths and limitations of major mindfulness practices (PHP1880).
3. Research Assessment: Understand how researchers investigate mindfulness mechanisms (PHP1885).
4. Framework Development: Use directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to create a testable framework for health outcomes (PHP1895).
5. Research Protocol Creation: Develop a comprehensive mindfulness research protocol and data analysis plan (PHP1895).

Mindfulness Course Requirements

Complete the following Mindfulness courses:

• PHP1880: Meditation, Mindfulness, and Health
• PHP1895: Mindfulness Epidemiology

Choose Your Science Courses (Select two):

• PHP1885: Measuring Mindfulness
• PHP1890: The Craving Mind
• COST1020: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Meditation
• COST1710B: Science and Meditation

Join us on this journey to harness the power of mindfulness and make a meaningful impact in health!

The Addictions track provides an interdisciplinary foundation to understand substance use, misuse, and addiction and to address the social and health-related costs of addiction. This track is designed to prepare MPH students for careers in addiction prevention, program evaluation, and research.

What You’ll Learn:

1. Explain how the misuse of substances impacts population health
2. Compare how different biopsychosocial models explain why individuals develop addiction
3. Analyze how social determinants affect vulnerability to addiction using the socioecological model
4. Appraise approaches to prevent harms from substance use
5. Synthesize evidence for the effectiveness of substance use disorder treatments
6. Evaluate the impacts of substance use-related policies on population health
7. Produce an addictions science research product that demonstrates mastery of scholarly writing

Addictions Course Requirements

Complete both of the following addictions courses:

• PHP1550, Substance Use and Vulnerability to Addiction
• PHP1551, Substance Use Prevention, Treatment & Policy

Select one of the following perspectives on addictions courses:

• PHP1540, Alcohol Use and Misuse
• PHP1610, Tobacco, Disease and the Industry: cigs, e-cigs and more
• PHP1890, The Craving Mind

Select one of the following methods for addictions courses:

• PHP1810, Community- Engaged Research in Public Health
• PHP2015, Foundations of Spatial Analysis in Public Health
• PHP2030, Clinical Trials Methods
• PHP2040, Survey Research Methods
• PHP2060, Qualitative Methods 
• PHP2300, Behavioral Research Methods
• PHP2340, Behavioral and Social Science Theory for Health Promotion
• PHP2360, Developing + Testing Theory-Driven, Evidence-Based Psychosocial and Behavioral Health Interventions
• PHP2061, Qualitative Analysis in Public Health Research*

*PHP2061 is only an option for students who are following the qualitative analytic sequence (PHP2506/2060) for their data analysis core requirement