Academic Standards & Ethics
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I have always wanted to be a hand and a voice; a hand to help hurting people and a voice for the voiceless. This led me to medicine and now to public health...
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For me the Bloomberg School is a place for greater self-discovery. My background in public health...
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I have a BS in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University, DVM from Colorado State University, and a...
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I am currently an instructor in medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania...
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I am a medical doctor, who graduated from the University of Benin, Nigeria. My latest assignment was with the Nigerian Youth Corps...
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Born in Florida, but raised in both Europe and the U.S., I have a strong love for traveling which now compliments my interest in public health...
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The online MPH is a versatile degree that has been key in my professional development. I entered the program while working full-time as a hospital administrator...
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Who would have thought that I would end up at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health? Certainly not me...
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I am an Italian Medical Doctor with a passion for global health and social entrepreneurship, focusing on poverty-related diseases, child health and humanitarian action...
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I began the part-time MPH program with the goal of using my research and analytical skills to further policies that improve health...
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I earned my MPH concentrating my coursework in Epidemiology and Biostatistics with a capstone project analyzing malaria data from Tanzania...
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I didn’t think it was possible to find a group of people I could learn more from than the faculty... and then I met my classmates.
-Diane Francisco
-Diane Francisco
Academic Standards
Students must meet minimum academic standards to remain in the Bloomberg School MPH program. A student’s failure to meet any of the criteria below is grounds for being placed on academic warning and/or being dismissed from the program.
- To maintain good academic standing in the MPH program, students must maintain a minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.50. Students falling below 2.50 will be placed on academic warning and will have one term, or 12 additional units of coursework, to raise the GPA to 2.50 or above. Students not meeting the 2.50 minimum after one term may be granted additional term(s) on academic warning if academic progress has been shown in the cumulative GPA. Students on academic warning must meet with their faculty advisor and the MPH Academic Coordinator each term to review their academic plan and receive approval for their course schedule prior to registering for courses. Students with a cumulative GPA of less than 2.50 may not register for more than 18 credits per term. Any repeated courses count towards this 18 credit limit. [Note: Students with less than a 2.50 cumulative GPA are not eligible to enroll in the Biostatistics 620 course series or the Epidemiology 750 course series].
- Students must earn a grade of “C” or higher in all required courses in the core curriculum that are offered for letter grading and a “Pass” grade for those only offered on a pass/fail basis. A student who earns a “D” or “F” grade in a course that meets a core requirement must, at the next opportunity, make a second attempt to complete the core requirement either by repeating the same course or by completing another course that meets the same core requirement (if available). A grade of “D” or “F” on the second attempt is grounds for dismissal.
- Students must complete the initial core requirement (either 'Problem Solving in Public Health' or 'Making Change Through Policy'), the Goals Analysis plan, and the Epidemiology core requirement within the first twelve months of matriculation into the MPH program.
- Students must progress toward degree completion in three years or less, as per their Goals Analysis plan. If additional time is required to complete the degree, it is a student’s responsibility to contact in writing (email communication is sufficient) the faculty advisor and the MPH Academic Coordinator to request an extension beyond the three year limit. An extension request should be submitted to the faculty advisor and the MPH Academic Coordinator at least one term prior to the end of the 3-year limit.
- Students may not accrue more than 9 units of “incomplete” coursework at any given time. Students exceeding this limit must immediately contact the faculty advisor and the MPH Academic Coordinator in writing (email communication is sufficient) to discuss their academic situation. Students may not be permitted to register for subsequent terms until the incompletes have been resolved.
- Students who are inactive (not enrolled in courses) for two terms or more without notifying the MPH Academic Coordinator of their academic plans will be dismissed from the program. Students who do notify in writing (email communication is sufficient) the MPH Academic Coordinator and faculty advisor of their circumstances may suspend enrollment, assuming that they otherwise have met academic standards as per the 5 items above.
Ethics
Maintaining the highest level of academic integrity is an important responsibility of our faculty and students. To help achieve this goal, all students are required to complete the Academic Ethics module, entitled “An Introduction to Academic Ethics.” The module contains information about the Academic Ethics Code of the Bloomberg School, along with related case studies and discussions of situations students and faculty may face. Students will need to become familiar with the Academic Ethics Code of our School and should briefly review it before starting the module.
MPH students are required to complete the Academic Ethics Module using their @jhsph.edu email account to enter the module.
Ethics Module Completion Due Dates
- Part-time\Internet-based students matriculating in June 2012 must complete the module during the two-week time frame of the June Summer Institute.
- Full-time students matriculating in July 2012 must complete the module by Friday, July 27, 2012.
- Students matriculating in Barcelona, Spain in November 2012 must complete the module no later than Friday, January 18, 2013.
- Students matriculating in January 2013 must complete the module during the two-week time frame of the January Winter Institute.