The purpose of the MPH is to train public health professionals for a career in an international setting. Graduates of IHD typically pursue careers in international organizations as mid-level technicians or senior managers of social sector programs in the developing world. Graduates of the Department of International Health and Development work around the world in a wide range of agencies including: the World Bank, UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO), UNAIDs, Family Health International (FHI), the Population Council, IPAS, Hellen Keller International, Save the Children-UK, and CARE.

The technical skills developed for use in the international context are largely applicable to work in domestic public health programs as well, such as urban health initiatives, state and local HIV/AIDS, public nutrition and family planning programs.
By the end of the program, students will be able to:

• Identify target populations or subgroups that require specific intervention approaches using demographic, epidemiologic and economic analysis
• Design population, health, environmental and/or public nutrition programs/projects in the context of national and international policy
• Incorporate cultural factors in the design and management of projects/programs
• Assess critically strategic obstacles to successful social change in their sectors
• Evaluate development programs/projects in terms of their quality, effectiveness and efficiency using qualitative and quantitative research techniques
• Utilize effectively state-of-the-art information technologies in the design and monitoring of programs/projects
• Access and utilize effectively the programming resources of local, national and international organizations engaged in social sector activities.

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The MPH&TM program prepares health professionals with clinical backgrounds to deal with the important public health problems of tropical developing countries. By combining a core public health curriculum with course work on the epidemiology of tropical diseases and the specific diseases prevalent in the tropics, this program prepares physicians to understand the epidemiologic, biologic and social aspects of tropical diseases; it also prepares the participants to evaluate and plan disease prevention and control programs.

The training program in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Traveler's Health ("Diploma Course") is designed to provide a comprehensive educational experience for physicians and other health professionals seeking certification in Tropical Medicine and Traveler's Health through the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTM&H). The purpose of this program is to provide a structured curriculum with practical instruction in tropical medicine, including the pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, and control of diseases prevalent in the tropics. The curriculum presented here has been approved as one of six accredited Diploma Courses in Tropical Medicine in the U.S. Most of the courses required for this program are also required for students in the Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Program (MPH&TM), many are also taken concurrently by students in the Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH) program.

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The program prepares students to analyze data in a wide range of settings, including industrial health surveillance and research programs; local, state, and federal governmental agencies; pharmaceutical research divisions; university research programs; and consulting firms.

Required Courses:

• Intermediate Biostatistics
• Database Management in the Health Sciences
• Regression Analysis
• Design of Experiments
• Categorical Data Analysis
• Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis
• Clinical Trials
• Advanced Design of Experiments
• Advanced Categorical Data Analysis
• Nonparametric Statistics
• Principles of Sampling
• Principles of Measurement
• Monte Carlo and Bootstrapping Methods
• Advanced Evaluation Research
• Applied Data Analysis
• Multivariate Methods
• Monitoring and Evaluation for Health-Related Systems
• Epidemiologic Methods II
• Introduction to Population Studies
• Required Capstone Experience (one of the following required)
• Applied Data Analysis
• Practicum
• Analytic Epidemiology
• Meta-Analysis
• Capstone Experience

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• This is a 3 credit, 3 week field course to explore a range of health, development and environmental issues that interact in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Kenya is a laboratory to investigate aid agency and governmental projects tackling inter-related problems of HIV and AIDS, poverty, poor health care, and endemic malaria, urbanization, inter-tribal conflict, and globalization.
• Participants meet up in the densely populated, chaotic city of Nairobi; a camping safari takes us to the semi-arid northern districts and across the Rift Valley to the Lake Victoria region, where we visit AIDS-affected Western and Nyanza Provinces. Students spend time: talking to VCT clinic staff, observing farming and water harvesting in rural Machakos, attending a mobile health clinic serving the Samburu, digging in a community garden and assessing an AIDS orphan program.
• Presentations from local and international experts complement site visits and community field trips. Academic course work includes reading texts and course-pack articles, individual essay writing, field exercises and group discussions. Conditions are demanding, including long stretches of travel on unpaved roads, rough camping, hiking!

Course Objectives: By the end of the course, students will be able to:
· Identify and describe major socio-demographic, economic, historical, and environmental trends affecting health and human development in AIDS-affected populations;
· Describe the HIV/AIDS situation (including regional variations) in East Africa and relationships between HIV/AIDS, other health concerns and human development in a range of settings in Sub-Saharan Africa;
· List and explain major challenges facing local health providers in light of HIV/AIDS;
· Identify, describe and assess relevant program models used to combat HIV/AIDS;
· Identify, describe and critique projects and programs to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS at the individual, household and community level in eastern Africa;
· Identify and describe project models and experiences from our field visits to enhance your own project design, evaluation, and proposal/grant writing;
· Discuss some of the ethical issues of research and development in east Africa in the context of HIV/AIDS ;
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