The Program in Urban Public Health prepares public health professionals to promote health and prevent disease in diverse urban communities. Graduates receive an MPH or MS degree, depending on the area of specialization.

The program provides students with a broad multidisciplinary background in public and urban health. Many students are already in the public health field, so courses emphasize both the theoretical foundations of public health and its practical applications; most courses use practice-based assignments.

All students choose a specialization track -- either environmental and occupational health, nutrition, or community health education. In addition, students may elect to pursue a concentration in which they take elective credits and fieldwork in a single topic area, such as AIDS prevention, health care administration or gerontology.

Because public health professionals need to understand and work with other disciplines and demonstrate a broad range of proficiencies, students also have the opportunity to take electives in other departments, such as urban planning, anthropology, nursing, geography and sociology.

More than 2,000 public health professionals have graduated from Hunter’s programs in the past 30 years and gone on to serve as environmental health specialists, industrial hygienists, public health nutritionists, community health nurses and community health educators. These graduates are the leaders and managers in every major health agency in the New York region.

For further information about the Urban Public Health programs, contact:
Professor Nicholas Freudenberg
212-481-5111
nicholas.freudenberg@hunter.cuny.edu