Community Health, M.S.

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For more information, please contact Associate Professor Corinne Kyriacou, Ph.D., M.P.H., 516-463-4553.

This program prepares students for careers in community/public health settings with an emphasis on content and skills for planning and implementing health, wellness and disease prevention programs and services in culturally diverse settings. Courses in program planning, needs assessment, evaluation, and information dissemination are included. Specialized health courses may be taught by adjunct faculty from the professional health care community.

Admission Requirements

A completed application form.
An interview with program director.
A written personal statement describing the candidate’s goals in the field of community health.
Two letters of reference that address the candidate’s potential to succeed in graduate studies and the field of community health.
Transcripts from all post-secondary institutions attended with a minimum 2.75 GPA.
    a. At least 9 semester hours of coursework in health content areas successfully completed
       as part of an undergraduate or graduate degree program.
    b. Upon the recommendation of the program director, students with a GPA
        lower than 2.75 may be admitted by meeting one or more of the following criteria:
   i. Complete 12 probationary graduate credits maintaining a minimum 3.0 GPA.
   ii. Submit Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores.

Students may transfer up to 9 credits of equivalent graduate courses from an approved institution taken within the last five years and completed with a grade of B or better (with the approval of the student’s faculty adviser only).

Program Requirements- Semester Hours: 39

Prerequisite: Students who have never taken an evaluation course or who do not have equivalent experience must take RES 258 prior to registering for COMH 210.

General Core Requirements - Semester Hours: 12 (Foundations of Public and Community Health)

MPH 200 - Introduction to Public Health Semester Hours: 3
HADM 200 - U.S. Health System Semester Hours: 3
HADM 202 - Health Law and Ethics Semester Hours: 3
HED 201 - Health and Disease Issues Semester Hours: 3

Major Core Requirements - Semester Hours: 18 (Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of Programs)

COMH 204 - Environmental Health Semester Hours: 3
COMH 206 - Community Needs Assessment Semester Hours: 3
COMH 208 - Design and Implementation of Community Health Programs Semester Hours: 3
COMH 210 - Strategies for Assessing Outcomes in Community Health Semester Hours: 3
COMH 220 - Consumer Health Advocacy Semester Hours: 3
HADM 208 - Epidemiology for Health Care Managers Semester Hours: 3

Core Electives - Semester Hours: 6

Selected under advisement only.

COMH 230 - Mental Health Issues Semester Hours: 3
COMH 251 - Readings in Community Health Semester Hours: 1-3
COMH 280-289 A-Z - Special Topics Semester Hours: 1-3
HADM 204 - Health Care Economics Semester Hours: 3
HADM 205 - Health Care Finance Semester Hours: 3
HADM 206 - Health Services Organizational Behavior and Analysis Semester Hours: 3
HADM 224 - Home Health Administration Semester Hours: 3
HADM 230 - Nursing Home and Long Term Care Administration Semester Hours: 3
HED 212 - Substance Abuse and Misuse Semester Hours: 3
HED 213 - Nutrition/Fitness Semester Hours: 3
HED 214 - Chronic and Communicable Diseases Semester Hours: 3
RES 387 - Skills in Funding and Proposal Development: Government, Foundation and Corporate Semester Hours: 3

Required Field Experience - Semester Hours: 3

Note: three semester hours of electives may be substituted for field experience if the student can document equivalent related employment or prior courses (with written permission from department adviser only).

COMH 260 - Supervised Internship in Community Agencies Semester Hours: 3

Graduation Requirements

Successful completion of all course requirements for the degree including the capstone experience, with an overall GPA of 3.0 within a five-year period.

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