MPH FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC RIM REGION

The Johns Hopkins Master of Public Health (MPH) Program for health professionals in the Asia Pacific Rim region offers the opportunity to earn a world-class degree in three years. The MPH Program courses are available online and are combined with short-format face-to-face classes taught by Hopkins faculty in Baltimore and at an Asia Pacific Rim region site.  This flexible approach allows working professionals to negotiate busy schedules while completing the degree.

All college graduates from related fields with at least two years of health-related work experience can apply for the MPH Program. Students may begin by taking courses online as non-degree seeking students.  For more information, please contact our Asian partner for the program, the Education Development Corporation (EDC)

TEACHING FORMAT

The MPH Program for health professionals in the Asia Pacific Rim region will be completed in three years. Courses will be conducted in Baltimore, sites in the Asia Pacific Rim region, and online.

• The program will begin with initial face-to-face courses in Baltimore on the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health campus.
  
• Subsequent face-to-face courses will be held yearly in one-week institutes at sites in the Asia Pacific Rim region.
  
• Students will also take Internet courses.
  
• Students will complete the program by presenting capstone projects in a Capstone Symposium that will be held in the Asia Pacific Rim region.
  

The program will begin in Baltimore with a two-week institute. Students will then complete Internet courses and attend annual institutes in which intensive face-to-face courses will be conducted at an Asia Pacific Rim region site. While the MPH for health professionals is a Schoolwide program, some courses will be customized to address regional needs in specific health services.

CONTACT

Leiyu Shi, DrPH, MBA
Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Co-director, Johns Hopkins Primary Care Policy Center for the Underserved

Dr. Shi is a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management.  His research contributions concern primary care, with particular emphasis on community health centers.  He has conducted numerous national surveys with the administrators, medical directors, and boards of directors of community health centers on the staffing, recruitment, retention, financing, and satisfaction related to community health centers. His own research focuses on  primary care and managed care related to community health centers.
Phone: 410-614-6507


Asia Program Partner
Education Development Corporation office

Education Development Corporation (EDC) was founded in 1998 in Taiwan, with a focus on advanced education and hospital management. The purpose of the establishment is to help health professionals in the Asia Pacific Rim region to achieve higher performance. EDC has signed a contract with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in February, 2006, whereby EDC is the sole agency of the Johns Hopkins Executive Doctoral of Public Health Taiwan Cohort Program. In March, 2008, the School signed an agreement with EDC to create a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program for health professionals in the Asia Pacific Rim region. EDC is the School's partner in this initiative.

For more information about EDC, please visit http://www.edcedu.com.

Contact: Summer Lai
Phone: +886-4-2252-2760 ext. 33
Fax: +886-4-2259-0289
Address: 13F-9, No. 77, Shihjheng N. 1st Rd., Taichung City, 40756 Taiwan