Master of Public Health
Receive unparalleled preparation to join the next generation of global public health leaders by earning your Master of Public Health 100% online from Brown University. Developed particularly for working professionals around the world, Brown’s online MPH allows you to increase your influence and positive impact on public health while staying in your community.
In as little as 24 months, you can graduate ready to further your career, having increased your capacity to:
Get more detailed information about the courses you’ll take, admissions requirements and more.
Spring 2024 Application Now Open!
Final Deadline: October 15
At Brown, we’ve designed our 100% online MPH to help a wider variety of students prepare for public health leadership roles. This program is especially ideal for:
The “rules” of public health have changed drastically as the COVID-19 pandemic has brought new light to enduring healthcare inequities worldwide. As a student in Brown’s 100% online MPH program, you’ll gain the knowledge and global perspective needed to effect positive, lasting change on a local, national and international scale.
To complete Brown’s 100% online MPH program, you must complete 12 courses for a total of 48 credit hours. Additionally, you will have a 145-hour practicum experience to apply your newly strengthened skills in a real-world public health setting.
Brown is home of some of the world’s foremost experts on addiction, aging, environmental health, HIV/AIDS, and other critical public health issues. As an online MPH student, these experts serve as your instructors — helping you develop knowledge and skills through personal interaction and a robust curriculum they’ve created. Study current public health issues with which faculty have expertise, such as COVID-19, the opioid crisis and inequities in healthcare access and outcomes.
As you progress through your 100% online MPH program, you’ll complete most of your coursework asynchronously — on your own time and schedule — while also taking part in weekly online sessions with classmates, instructors and special guests.
In each online MPH course, you’ll examine specific, real-world public health scenarios — strengthening your problem-solving, information-gathering, and reasoning skills as you generate solutions to current health issues. Other benefits you can enjoy through case-based learning include:
With the launch of the 100% online MPH program, Brown offers more working professionals and international students the opportunity to solve critical public health challenges through its distinctive, world-class teaching approach. In 2021 alone, Brown ranked:
The Brown University School of Public Health is accredited by the Council on Education in Public Health (CEPH). Like all CEPH-accredited programs, Brown’s 100% online MPH will teach and assess the standard 22 foundational competencies of public health, as well as concentration-specific competencies in data analysis, leadership, and communication.
At Brown, everyone wants you to succeed. Everyone is doing their very best to succeed and putting in the effort but without competitive negativity. I just felt really at home here.
- Enyonam Odoom, Brown MPH Graduate