JD-MPH
The Juris Doctorate-Master of Public Health (JD-MPH) dual degree program allows law students to complete both degrees in four years and allows for up to six credits of the JD curriculum to count towards MPH electives. Students complete the first two years of law school and then step out of the JD program after their second year to begin their MPH year.
During the fall and spring semester of their MPH year, JD-MPH students complete the majority of their MPH requirements, then end their year in our program with the completion of their MPH Applied Practice Experience (APEX) over the summer, before returning to law school to complete any outstanding requirements for both programs.
JD students can apply to the MPH program during any admissions cycle in the first two years of law school. Admitted students can defer their admission until after the second year of law school.
JD-MPH Course Schedule
Fall
- PUBLHLTH 780 Evidence-Based Decision-Making
3 credits - PUBLHLTH 782 Determinants of Health and Health Equity: A Systems Approach
3 credits - PUBLHLTH 783 Quantitative Approaches to Public Health
4 credits - PUBLHLTH 791 Communicating Public Health Effectively II
3 credits - PUBLHLTH 792 Policy and Public Health
3 credits
16 total credits
Spring
- 784 Quantitative Approaches To Public Health II
3 credits - PUBLHLTH 785 Public Health and Health Care Systems
3 credits - PUBLHLTH 786 Planning and Management to Promote Health
3 credits - PUBLHLTH 787 Applied Practice Experience Seminar
1 credit - PUBLHLTH 790 Social Justice and Public Health: Tools and Models
2 credits - PUBLHLTH 793 Public Health Leadership
2 credits
14 total credits
Summer
- PUBHTLH 788 Applied Practice Experience
6 credits
6 total credits
JD Program
- Discipline-related courses and electives
- LAW 935 Health Law & Administration (2-3 credits)
- LAW 744 Administrative Law (3 credits)
- LAW 905 Bioethics (2-4 credits)
- LAW 906 Law, Science, and Biotechnology (2-4 credits)
- LAW 854 Clinical: Health Law Externship at Center for Patient Partnerships varies
6 total credits (can fulfill all MPH electives through classes above)