Welcome to a New Year and new decade!
As we look back on a busy and exciting year in the MPH program, we also look forward to the promise and potential of 2020.
Our world is rife with public health challenges. Go to any news source on any given day last year, and you saw stories about climate change and its relationship to the increased severity of natural disasters, how the rapid rise of vaping threatened to reverse decades of progress in reducing tobacco use and its related diseases, and ongoing policy debates about the Affordable Care Act, tobacco regulation, and other public health issues. On a daily basis, MPH students see the importance of their training in epidemiology, policy, and environmental health in events and issues impacting the community, the nation, and the world.
As we embark upon a new decade, we in the MPH program reaffirm our commitment to preparing dedicated public health practitioners who will find creative and effective solutions to ongoing and emerging health challenges. It is a privilege to educate the next generation of practitioners to meet the increasingly varied needs of our field.