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Electives

With room for three or more elective courses, Brown’s MPH curriculum empowers students to pair their concentration with electives that reflect their interests and career goals.

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With room for three or more elective courses, Brown’s MPH curriculum empowers students to pair their concentration with electives that reflect their interests and career goals.

Bundle Electives, Build Your Expertise

MPH students can bundle their 3+ electives to build expertise in areas of focus. Students have the flexibility to create their own elective bundle in a particular subject area, or they may choose to explore new topics or even achieve a dual concentration.

Curated Elective Bundles

These proposed bundles provide a streamlined pathway for you to deepen your knowledge in high-impact areas, ensuring your degree is as specialized as your career goals. Courses in these substantive areas have been informed by our Centers and Institutes, which also provide ongoing opportunities to engage with experts and attend special lectures.

The following elective courses would be excellent choices for an elective bundle in Infectious Diseases and Pandemics:

  • PHP1450: COVID-19, Public Health, and Health Policy
  • PHP1580: Pandemic Game Changers
  • PHP1796: The Historical Determinants of Public Health
  • PHP1854: The Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases
  • PHP1855: Infectious Disease Modeling
  • PHP2130: Human Biology for Public Health

The following elective courses would be excellent choices for an elective bundle in Maternal and Child Health:

  • PHP1950: Adolescent and Young Adult Health
  • PHP2023: Maternal and Child Health in the United States
  • PHP2220F: Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology 

The following elective courses would be excellent choices for an elective bundle in Global Health:

  • PHP2710: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Disability and Death in the Global South
  • PHP2727: Putting Research into Practice with Implementation Science
  • PHP2740: Learning Global Health by Doing Global Health
  • PHP2760: Critical Perspectives in Global Health

The following elective courses would be excellent choices for an elective bundle in Nutrition, Physical Activity & Chronic Disease:

  • PHP1998: Public Health Nutrition
  • PHP1101: World of Food
  • PHP2310: Physical Activity and Public Health
  • PHP1960: Epidemiology of Chronic Disease
  • PHP1600: Obesity in the 21st Century
  • PHP2220B: Nutritional Epidemiology
  • PHP2018: Epidemiology of CVD/Metabolism
  • PHPNEW: Nutrition and Movement for the Mind and Body

The following elective courses would be excellent choices for an elective bundle in Climate Change and Environment:

  • PHP1700: Current Topics in Environmental Health
  • PHP1720: Environmental Exposure Assessments in Practice
  • PHP1856: A One Health Approach to Emerging Public Health Issues
  • PHP1730: Climate Risks Health Solutions
  • PHP2220E: Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
  • PHP1725: Rural Public Health
  • BIOL1865: Toxicology

The following elective courses would be excellent choices for an elective bundle in Health Justice, Law & Advocacy:

  • PHP1460: Public Health Law and Advocacy
  • PHP1681: Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice
  • PHP1796: Historical Determinants of Public Health
  • PHP1821: Incarceration, Disparities, and Health
  • PHP2081: Health Policy and Equity
  • PHP2428: Health Justice

The following elective courses would be excellent choices for an elective bundle in Health Systems and Financing:

  • PHP1100: Comparative Health Care Systems
  • PHP2400: The U.S. Health Care System
  • PHP1685: Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
  • PHPNEW: Improving Health Care Delivery and Primary Care Models
  • PHP2445: Minding the Gap: The US Healthcare Safety Net

The following elective courses would be excellent choices for an elective bundle in Substance Use and Harm Reduction:

  • PHP1610: Tobacco, Disease and the Industry
  • PHP1890: The Craving Mind
  • PHP1540: Alcohol use & misuse
  • PHP1550: Substance Use & Addiction
  • PHP1551: Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Policy
  • PHP1830: Harm Reduction as Public Health

The following elective courses would be excellent choices for an elective bundle in Pharmaceuticals and Other Therapeutics:

  • PHP2440: Intro to Pharmacoepidemiology
  • PHP2490: Methods in Pharmacoepidemiology
  • PHP1855: Infectious Disease Modeling
  • PHP2670: Simulation Models for Public Health Decision Making
  • PHPNEW: Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy

The following elective courses would be excellent choices for an elective bundle in Health Equity:

  • PHP1650: Race, Racism and Health
  • PHP1920: Social Determinants of Health
  • PHP1680I: Disability/Health and Community
  • PHP1680U: Intersectionality/Health Equity
  • PHP1725: Rural Public Health
  • PHP2365: Public Health Issues in LGBT populations
  • PHP1821: Incarceration, Disparities, and Health
  • PHP2447: Health Care Quality and Equity
  • PHP2081: Health Policy and Equity
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