Veterinary Public Health, MPH

Veterinary Public Health, MPH

Level:

Master's Degree

Credits required:

42 credits

Cost per credit:

$488

Next start date:

May 6, 2024

Improve Public Health Through Veterinary Science

The veterinary public health degree builds on the expertise of USU’s School of Veterinary Medicine by offering specialized training in the emerging public health discipline One Health. This discipline recognizes the health of people is connected to the health of animals and the environment. For example, six out of 10 infectious diseases in humans are spread from animals. Learn to work with veterinarians, ecologists, and physicians to monitor and control public health threats.

USU’s veterinary public health degree builds on the strong foundations of the university’s School of Veterinary Medicine. The same faculty who teach at USU's main campus also teach the online courses. You will have added flexibilty through the online format, allowing you to continue your current career.

This program is a member of the Western Regional Graduate Program (WRGP), allowing all students from the majority of the western states to qualify for in-state tuition, rather than paying the larger out-of-state tuition.

The First Step is a Conversation. Talk to Jane.

Emma Jane Kelly

Emma Jane Kelly

DVM, DACVPM, DACVM
Clinical Professor, Dept. of Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Science
(801) 798-5435
jane.kelly@usu.edu

College: College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences

Department: Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences

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Graduates combine their knowledge of public health, veterinary medicine, and ecology to monitor and control public health, food safety, and environmental threats. This degree allows graduates to work and collaborate across a wide array of disciplines, including veterinarians, ecologists, and medical professionals.

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This course encourages students to explore the complexity of relationships between changes in the environment, pathogenicity and distribution of organisms, and changing distributions of human beings and animals, within the context of global climate change, global trade, and political unrest. 

This course covers practical applications of epidemiology for veterinary medicine and public health. Topics include a summary of epidemiologic data, outbreak investigation, questionnaire design, sample size calculations, diagnostic test evaluation, study design, and introductions to risk analysis and disease modeling. 

Students learn to frame and deliver effective, accurate public health messages, developing an understanding of topics necessary to evaluate information accuracy.  Message design and communication strategy exercises are based on environmental health topics, using environmental health disasters as case studies. 

This course enables students to understand epigenetic mechanisms and critically evaluate reports of the emerging environmental origin of epigenetic disease and developmental problems relevant to public health, including cancer, aging, metabolic syndrome, reproductive health, in utero, and transgenerational exposures.

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