PROGRAM MISSION:
The Hunter College Program in Public Health educates public health professionals to promote health and prevent disease among residents of urban communities. It prepares students to work with the diverse populations living in cities and to serve in a variety of settings in government, nonprofit organizations, businesses and communities. The program provides students with a broad multidisciplinary background in public and urban health and with specific competencies' in environmental and occupational health, nutrition or community health education. Its student's staff and faculty seek to reflect the diversity of New York City.

The Program prepares graduate students to work in urban communities as environmental health specialists, industrial hygienists, public health nutritionists, community health nurses and community health educators. It also prepares undergraduate students to be dietitians and health educators who can work with individuals and communities to prevent and treat health problems facing urban populations.

The Program is committed to education, research and service to improve the health of urban populations, especially disadvantaged communities in New York City. The Program carries out research and public service projects that create new understanding of the factors that influence the well-being of urban populations demonstrates innovative approaches to solving urban public health problems; and assists policy makers, practitioners, citizens and others to make informed choices about the health of cities.

Because the Program believes that health and disease are created within communities, communities have a key role to play in public health action, research and- education. Community residents and organizations help the Program to identify research needs, educate professionals and take action to promote health and prevent disease.

Urban health is shaped by multiple stakeholders and so the Program in Public Health has collaborative relationships with professional organizations, public agencies, other research universities, social service and health care institutions, labor unions, community organizations and advocacy groups, and other units of Hunter College and the City University of New York.

PROGRAM COMPETENCIES:
pending

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
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