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Master of Public Health Program
MPH Requirements: Thesis
All MPH students are required to complete a thesis. There are no
formal requirements for a candidacy examination in order to progress
to writing a Master's thesis for the MPH degree. Therefore, development
of a Master's thesis is an on-going process during the student's
academic program. Thesis projects may be descriptive research, investigative
research, public health policy development or assessment, or a program
evaluation. The thesis must have an analytic component, which may
be qualitative as well as quantitative. The thesis must also have
utility, with some application for public health action. The thesis
project involves a smaller scale of administrative and data management
activities than a typical MS or PhD thesis. Students may use existing
datasets or develop their own, although the latter, by necessity,
usually involve small population samples. Faculty conducting research
in the Centers, Programs and Institutes of the Public Health Program,
have a large array of research projects using public relevant data
bases. The Department of Health and other state agencies have public
use data sets and other sources of data are available from federal
public health agencies.
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