High marks for Columbia’s new public health curriculum

November 18, 2013

A fully re-envisioned Master of Public Health program was launched by Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in the fall of 2012, ushering in the most sweeping changes in public health education in decades. Detailing the experience leading up to the launch and since, the principal architects of the new curriculum have published two articles in the current online edition of the American Journal of Public Health that together provide insight into the rationale for the changes needed in public health education, the goals and dimensions of the curriculum design, as well as the results of a preliminary survey suggesting that students and faculty are enthusiastic about the result. (Medical Xpress)