Department f Exercise and Nutritin Sciences Master f Public Health Public Health Nutritin Academic Year 2015-2016 All curriculum revisins will be updated immediately n the website http://www.publichealth.gwu.edu Prgram Directr Kim Rbien, PhD, RD Assciate Prfessr Directr, Public Health Nutritin 950 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washingtn, DC 20052 Missin The missin f the MPH prgram in Public Health Nutritin at GW s SPH is t develp and train graduate students t integrate nutritin int the cre f public health practice. The prgram encmpasses a scial eclgical perspective t the rle f nutritin in the etilgy, preventin and treatment f bth acute and chrnic disease at the individual, cmmunity, natinal and glbal levels. This prgram is designed t train students as public health scientists and practitiners in rder t assist public and private agencies with prgram develpment, implementatin and evaluatin with regard t nutritin in health prmtin and disease preventin. Gals The gals f this MPH prgram in Public Health Nutritin are t that ensure graduates: Understand the pathphysilgy f cmmn acute and chrnic disease prcesses and the rle that nutritin may play in the develpment f these diseases. Understand the factrs impacting the accessibility, availability, adequacy and safety f the fd and water systems serving a cmmunity, and the relatinship between cmmunity fd and water systems and health utcmes. Develp skills in nutritin assessment f bth individuals and cmmunities. Utilize apprpriate epidemilgic methds fr develping and testing hyptheses relating t nutritin and health utcmes at the ppulatin level. Develp skills in designing, implementing, and evaluating nutritin interventins t imprve the health f cmmunities. Appreciate the rle f public health plicy in altering the fd envirnment at the cmmunity level. Prerequisites: Students wh d nt have an undergraduate degree in nutritin when applying t the Public Health Nutritin MPH prgram must successfully cmplete ne intrductry nutritin and ne advanced nutritin r nutritinal bichemistry curse at the undergraduate level (r higher) with a grade f C r higher prir t matriculating int the prgram. GW's SPH ffers EXNS 2114 Nutritin Sciences I and EXNS 2115 Nutritin Sciences II. Tgether, these curses satisfy the Public Health Nutritin MPH prgram pre-requisite cursewrk.
Prgram Specific Cmpetencies Upn cmpletin f the MPH in Public Health Nutritin, students will pssess the fllwing functinal cmpetencies: Integrate nutritin within the cre functins f public health. Students will be able t translate nutritin research int public health practice thrugh applicatin f skills in nutritin assessment/surveillance, prgram planning and evaluatin, management, educatin and health prmtin, public plicy, and health cmmunicatin [Relevant Curses: PubH 6500, 6610] Describe the internatinal and US public health nutritin system. Students will identify the gvernmental structures and prcesses invlved in the develpment f public plicy, legislatin, regulatins and delivery f services that influence fd intake, nutritinal status, and health f ppulatins. [Relevant Curses: PUBH 6610, 6613, 6482, 6014, 6015] Students will identify internatinal, federal, state and lcal level nutritin surveillance and assistance prgrams. [Relevant Curses: PUBH 6610, 6613, 6482, 6014, 6015] Students will be able t identify the plitical, ecnmic and scial prcesses that influence fd and nutritin plicies and legislatin. [Relevant Curses: PUBH 6610, 6613, 6482, 6014, 6015] Assess the nutritinal status f individuals and cmmunities. Students use apprpriate and current methds t assess nutritin status and priritize nutritinal prblems f target ppulatins acrss the life span. Examples might include anthrpmetric, bichemical, clinical, dietary, functinal (e.g. physical mbility r feeding skills), envirnmental and sciecnmic assessment. [Relevant Curses: PubH 6610, 6611, 6241, 6014, 6015, EXNS 6242] Students will understand the prcess, ratinale, and issues related t establishing nutrient requirements and dietary recmmendatins [Relevant Curses: PubH 6611, 6241, 6014, 6015, EXNS 6242] Evaluate the accessibility, adequacy and safety f the fd and water systems fr a given cmmunity, and understand hw these factrs culd affect the desired utcmes f health prmtin and disease preventin activities. Students will identify ptential envirnmental, ecnmic, behaviral, plitical, cultural and histrical factrs that impact the fd system (including the prductin, prcessing, distributin, and cnsumptin f fd) and water supply. [Relevant Curses: PubH 6610, 6612, 6613, 6014, 6015] Students will implement r advcate fr imprvements in the fd and water supply chain as needed t imprve the health f the cmmunities they serve. [Relevant Curses: PubH 6610, 6613, 6014, 6015, EXNS 6242] Apply evidence-based knwledge and understanding f the relatinship between nutritin and health utcmes acrss the life-span.
Students will describe the rle f nutritin in the health f the general ppulatin. [Relevant Curses: PUBH 6014, 6015, 6241; EXNS 6242] Students will identify the health cnsequences f bth under- and ver-nutritin. [Relevant Curses: PUBH 6014, 6015, 6241; EXNS 6242] Students will identify and critically evaluate relevant nutritin research, and apply research findings t fd and nutritin prgrams and plicies. [Relevant Curses: PUBH 6610, 6613, 6014, 6015, 6241; EXNS 6242] Design, implement, and evaluate ppulatin-based nutritin interventins, plicies, and prgrams. Students apply the principles f cmmunity assessment, planning, marketing, implementatin and evaluatin in rder t assure the success f fd and nutritin interventins. [Relevant Curses: PubH 6014, 6015] Students will understand and apply theries f scial and behaviral change when develping nutritin interventins. [Relevant Curses: PubH 6014, 6015] Demnstrate effective cmmunicatin, management and leadership skills t ensure the success f public health nutritin prgrams and services. Students will cmmunicate fd and nutritin infrmatin apprpriate fr brad and diverse audiences, including individuals, families, cmmunities, health prfessinals, media, plicy and decisin makers, fd industries, and businesses. [Relevant Curses: PUBH 6610, 6014, 6015] Students will interact sensitively, effectively and prfessinally with persns frm diverse cultural, sciecnmic, educatinal, and prfessinal backgrunds, and with persns f all ages and lifestyle preferences. [Relevant Curses: PUBH 6610, 6014, 6015]
Milken Institute Schl f Public Health Master f Public Health Public Health Nutritin Prgram-at-a-Glance 2015-2016 Required Cre MPH Curses 15 credits Curse number Curse title Credits Semester ffered PubH 6001 Bilgical Cncepts fr Public Health 2 Fall, Spring, Summer (6 PubH 6002 Bistatistical Applicatins fr Public Health 3 Fall, Spring, Summer (10 PubH 6003 Principles and Practice f Epidemilgy 3 Fall, Spring, Summer (10 PubH 6004 Envirnmental and Occupatinal Health in a Sustainable Wrld 2 Fall, Spring, Summer (6 PubH 6006 Management and Plicy Appraches t Public Health 3 Fall, Spring, Summer (10 PubH 6007 Scial and Behaviral Appraches t Public Health 2 Fall, Spring, Summer (6 Public Health Nutritin Cre Curses 14 credits Curse number Curse title Credits Semester ffered PubH 6610 Public Health Nutritin Practice and 1 Fall Leadership PubH 6611 Nutritin Assessment 2 Spring PubH 6500 Planning & Implementing Health Prmtin 3 Fall, Spring Prgrams PubH 6612 Fd and Water Systems in Public Health 2 Summer PubH 6613 r US Fd Plicy and Plitics- r 2 Spring PubH 6482 Internatinal Fd & Nutritin Prgrams & 2 Spring Plicy EXNS 6242 Nutritin Acrss the Lifespan 2 Fall PubH 6241 Nutritin Epidemilgy 2 Fall Advanced Research Methds Curses 4 credits (selected frm the ptins listed belw) Curse number Curse title Credits Semester ffered PubH 6247 Design f Health Studies 3 Fall, Spring PubH 6249 Use f Statistical Packages PubH 6260 Advanced Data Analysis in Public Health PubH 6262 Intrductin t GIS PubH 6263 Intrductin t Gegraphic Infrmatin 1 Spring Systems PubH 6273 Ethngraphic Methds as Applied in Public Health PubH 6410 Glbal Health Study Design and Ethics 2 Fall, Spring PubH 6411 Glbal Health Data Cllectin 2 Spring, Summer PubH 6412 Glbal Health Data Analysis 2 Spring, Summer PubH 6437 Glbal Health Prgram Evaluatin 2 Summer
PubH 6501 Evaluatin f Health Prmtin/Disease 3 Fall, Spring Preventin Prgrams PubH 6530 Qualitative Methds in Health Prmtin 2 Spring PubH 6534 Cmmunity Based Participatry Research 1 PubH 6572 Marketing Research fr Public Health Elective Curses 8 credits Must be graduate level (6000 level) curses. The fllwing curses are especially relevant t the field f Public Health Nutritin. Curse number Curse title Credits Semester ffered PubH 6487 Emerging Zntic Diseases and Glbal Fd 1 Fall Prductin PubH 6099.14 Systematic Review f the Literature fr Public 1 Summer Health PubH 6237 Chrnic Disease Epidemilgy 2 Fall PubH 6127 Applied Envirnmental Health Micrbilgy 2 Spring PubH 6305 Fundamentals fr Health Plicy 2 Fall, Spring, Summer PubH 6400 Glbal Health Framewrks 3 Spring PubH 6440 Glbal Health Ecnmics and Finance 2 Spring PubH 6485 Preventin and Cntrl f Water and 1 Summer Sanitatin Diseases PubH 6503 Intrductin t Public Health Cmmunicatin 3 Fall, Spring and Marketing PubH 6514 Preventing Health Disparities 2 Fall PubH 6515 High Risk and Special Ppulatins 2 Fall (alternate years) PubH 6550 Maternal and Child Health I 3 Spring PubH 6551 Maternal and Child Health II 3 Spring PubH 6552 Wmen s Health 2 Spring PubH 6553 Adlescent Health 2 Fall PubH 6556 Maternal and Child Nutritin 2 Fall PubH 6562 Physical Activity and Obesity Interventins 2 Summer EXNS 6202 Advanced Exercise Physilgy I 3 Fall EXNS 6203 Advanced Exercise Physilgy II 3 Spring EXNS 6208 Physical Activity: Physilgy and 2 Spring, Summer Epidemilgy EXNS 6209 Advanced Cncepts in Nutritinal Science 3 Additinal Prgram Requirements -4 credits Curse number Curse title Credits Semester ffered PubH 6014 Practicum 2 Fall, Spring, Summer PubH 6015 Culminating Experience 2 Fall, Spring, Summer TOTAL 45 credits Curse Descriptins and Registratin infrmatin can be fund n the website: http://publichealth.gwu.edu/academics/.
Advising Tips Always see yur advisr fr curse scheduling and sequencing strategies, but remember that prper curse selectin, fulfilling requirements, and n-time graduatin are yur respnsibilities. The Master f Public Health (MPH) curriculum cnsists f five types f curses: 1. Required Cre Curses (PubH 6001, 6002, 6003, 6004, 6006, and 6007) 2. Required Prgram-Specific Curses 3. Advanced Research Methds Curses 4. Electives 5. Required Practicum and Culminating Experience Graduatin Requirements 1. Graduate Credit Requirement: 45 graduate credits are required. 2. Curse Requirements: Successful cmpletin f the Cre Curses and the Prgram-Specific Curses are required. 3. Grade Pint Requirement: A 3.0 (B average) verall grade pint average is required. 4. Time Limit Requirement: The degree must be cmpleted within fur years. 5. Transfer Credit Plicy: Up t 12 graduate credits that have nt been applied t a previus graduate degree may be transferred t the MPH. Up t 18 credits may be transferred t the MPH frm the SPHHS Graduate Certificate. Credits must have been earned frm an accredited institutin in the last 3 years with a grade pint f 3.0 r better. 6. CITI Training requirement: All students are required t cmplete training regarding human subject prtectin regulatin and the Health Insurance Prtability and Accuntability Act f 1996 (HIPAA). T fulfill this requirement, yu must cmplete the Cllabrative IRB Training Initiative (CITI) Curse in The Prtectin f Human Research Subjects. 7. Integrity Quiz & Plagiarism requirement: All students are required t review the Gerge Washingtn University Cde f Academic Integrity and take the quiz within their first semester f study. The Cde f Integrity and step-by-step instructins can be fund here: http://publichealth.gwu.edu/integrity 8. Prfessinal Enhancement requirement: Students must participate in 8 hurs per degree prgram f advisr pre-apprved Public Health-related lectures, seminars, and sympsia, related t yur field f study. Prfessinal Enhancement activities supplement the academic curriculum and help prepare students t participate actively in the prfessinal cmmunity. Opprtunities fr prfessinal enhancement are regularly publicized via the Milken Institute SPH Listserv and thrugh yur department r advisr. Students must submit dcumentatin f Prfessinal Enhancement activities t the Office f Student Recrds. The dcumentatin cnsists f the Prfessinal Enhancement Frm http://publichealth.gwu.edu/academics/frms (which includes a prir apprval signature frm the student s advisr, a descriptin f the prgram agenda, and prf f attendance. Remember t submit yur dcumentatin befre yu apply t graduate! 9. Additinal Curse Requirements: Additinal Curse(s) are determined at the time f admissin t the Exercise and Nutritin Sciences Department, and d nt cunt tward the 45
graduate credit requirement. Students wh d nt have an undergraduate degree in nutritin when applying t the Public Health Nutritin MPH prgram must successfully cmplete ne intrductry nutritin and ne advanced nutritin r nutritinal bichemistry curse at the undergraduate level (r higher) with a grade f C r higher prir t matriculating int the prgram. Prspective students can cntact the Prgram Directr t determine whether curses they have already taken r plan t take meet the admissin requirements.
Sample Public Health Nutritin MPH Curse Schedule Fall Year 1: PubH 6001 Bilgical Cncepts fr Public Health 2 credits PubH 6003 Principles and Practice f Epidemilgy 3 credits PubH 6004 Envirnmental and Occupatinal Health in a 2 credits Sustainable Wrld EXNS 6241 Nutritin Acrss the Lifespan 2 credits PubH 6610 Public Health Nutritin Practice and Leadership 1 credit Ttal 10 credits Spring Year 1: PubH 6002 Bistatistical Applicatins fr Public Health 3 credits PubH 6006 Management and Plicy Appraches t Public Health 3 credits PubH 6611 Nutritin Assessment 2 credits Electives 2-3 credits Ttal 10-11 credits Summer Year 1: PubH 6007 Scial and Behaviral Appraches t Public Health 2 credits PubH 6612 Fd and Water Systems in Public Health 2 credits Ttal 4 credits Fall Year 2: PubH 6241 Nutritin Epidemilgy 2 credits PubH 6500 Planning and Administratin f Health Prmtin/ 3 credits Disease Preventin Prgrams Advanced Research Methds curse(s) 2 credits Electives 2 credits PubH 6014 Public Health Nutritin Practicum 2 credits Ttal 11 credits Spring Year 2: PubH 6613 US Fd Plicy and Plitics 2 credits Advanced Research Methds curse(s) 2 credits Electives 4-5 credits PubH 6015 Public Health Nutritin Culminating Experience 2 credits Ttal 10-11 credits