Competencies and Learning Objectives
Students at Michigan Public Health are expected to demonstrate specific skills and knowledge based on their discipline by the end of their degree program. Use the filters below to identify the competencies for your degree and concentration.
- All MPH/MHSA students are trained in 22 Foundational Competencies and 12 Foundational Learning Objectives through the core curriculum.
- MPH students then learn an additional set of approximately 5 competencies within their concentration.
- All MS, MHI, and PhD students are trained in the 12 Foundational Learning Objectives through an online module.
- MS and PhD students also learn an additional set of competencies unique to their concentration.
- MPH Students: Use the competencies linked below to complete your Applied Practice Experience & Internship. As a reminder, you need 5 competencies for your APEx (at least 3 of which come from the foundational competencies list) and your internship should relate to at least one of the concentration competencies.
Competency | Domain | |
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1 | Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice | Evidence-based Approaches to Public Health |
2 | Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context | Evidence-based Approaches to Public Health |
3 | Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming and software, as appropriate | Evidence-based Approaches to Public Health |
4 | Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy or practice | Evidence-based Approaches to Public Health |
5 | Compare the organization, structure and function of health care, public health and regulatory systems across national and international settings | Public Health and Health Care Systems |
6 | Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community and societal levels | Public Health and Health Care Systems |
7 | Assess population needs, assets and capacities that affect communities' health | Planning and Management to Promote Health |
8 | Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design or implementation of public health policies or programs | Planning and Management to Promote Health |
9 | Design a population-based policy, program, project or intervention | Planning and Management to Promote Health |
10 | Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management | Planning and Management to Promote Health |
11 | Select methods to evaluate public health programs | Planning and Management to Promote Health |
12 | Discuss multiple dimensions of the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence | Policy in Public Health |
13 | Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes | Policy in Public Health |
14 | Advocate for political, social or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations | Policy in Public Health |
15 | Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity | Policy in Public Health |
16 | Apply principles of leadership, governance and management, which include creating a vision, empowering others, fostering collaboration and guiding decision making | Leadership |
17 | Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges | Leadership |
18 | Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors | Communication |
19 | Communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation | Communication |
20 | Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content | Communication |
21 | Perform effectively on interprofessional teams | Interprofessional Practice |
22 | Apply systems thinking tools to a public health issue | Systems Thinking |
Competency | Domain | |
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1 | Explain public health history, philosophy and values | Profession and Science of Public Health |
2 | Identify the core functions of public health and the 10 Essential Services | Profession and Science of Public Health |
3 | Explain the role of quantitative and qualitative methods and sciences in describing and assessing a population's health | Profession and Science of Public Health |
4 | List major causes and trends of morbidity and mortality in the US or other community relevant to the school or program | Profession and Science of Public Health |
5 | Discuss the science of primary, secondary and tertiary prevention in population health, including health promotion, screening, etc. | Profession and Science of Public Health |
6 | Explain the critical importance of evidence in advancing public health knowledge | Profession and Science of Public Health |
7 | Explain effects of environmental factors on a population's health | Factors Related to Human Health |
8 | Explain biological and genetic factors that affect a population's health | Factors Related to Human Health |
9 | Explain behavioral and psychological factors that affect a population's health | Factors Related to Human Health |
10 | Explain the social, political and economic determinants of health and how they contribute to population health and health inequities | Factors Related to Human Health |
11 | Explain how globalization affects global burdens of disease | Factors Related to Human Health |
12 | Explain an ecological perspective on the connections among human health, animal health and ecosystem health (e.g., One Health) | Factors Related to Human Health |
- MHSA in Health Management and Policy
- MPH in Environmental Health Promotion and Policy
- MPH in Environmental Health Sciences
- MPH in Environmental Quality, Sustainability, and Health
- MPH in Industrial Hygiene
- MPH in General Epidemiology
- MPH in Global Health Epidemiology
- MPH in Hospital and Molecular Epidemiology
- MPH in Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
- MPH in Health Behavior and Health Equity
- MPH in Health Management and Policy
- MPH in Nutritional Sciences
- MPH in Population and Health Sciences
- MS in Biostatistics
- MS in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis
- MS in Health Data Science
- MS in Environmental Health Sciences
- MS in Industrial Hygiene
- MS in Toxicology
- MS in Clinical Research-Epidemiology
- MS in Nutritional Sciences
- PhD in Biostatistics
- PhD in Environmental Health Sciences
- PhD in Toxicology
- PhD in Epidemiologic Science
- PhD in Health Behavior and Health Equity
- PhD in Health Services Organization and Policy
- PhD in Molecular and Biochemical Nutrition
- PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology
- PhD in Nutritional Interventions