Master of Public Health - Areas of concentration

Waterloo's Master of Public Health program provides opportunity to examine broad public health issues. For the degree, students are required to complete the core courses, with an additional three free electives.

The MPH program also offers a specialized area of concentration in sociobehavioural sciences that addresses health behaviour issues in health promotion and disease prevention.

Sociobehavioural science is a specific area of public health specialization where the University of Waterloo has established a worldwide reputation for research and teaching excellence. In order to complete the specialization a student must complete the core required courses, two stream electives and one free elective.

Application of best-practices in population health and the effective use of health information systems (health informatics) will constitute an important underlying theme. Our proposed environmental health sciences stream will not be offered in the 2011/2012 academic year. This stream option is expected in the future.