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Our programs are tailored to your career situation, experience level, and schedule, giving you the best opportunity to develop your health career. We have a proud tradition of preparing health professionals to improve health and quality of life in all communities and individuals.

Whether online or on campus, our faculty utilizes evidence-based methods and in-the-field training to give you a strong professional foundation. With five active centers of excellence on campus, you’ll be immersed in exciting innovations in health science. At SHSP, research, service, and education are all integrally connected.

Our Programs

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Public Health

The school is a founding member of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). Our public health programs are accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) and feature online and late afternoon and evening on-campus classes to accommodate the busy schedules of working professionals.

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DUAL DEGREES:

ADVANCED CERTIFICATES:

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Speech-Language Pathology

Speech-language pathology offers a two-year master’s that is full-time weekday program and on-campus with a focus on medical speech-language pathology in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and clinics. Our unique pediatric dysphasia certificate is offered online and trains working SLPs and OTs to diagnose and treat swallowing disorders in children.

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Physical Therapy

Our full-time weekday professional program in physical therapy has a robust list of clinical affiliates and a community-oriented approach you won't find in most other teaching settings. Service-based learning activities integrate health sciences and public health practice with the clinical arts.

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Centers of Excellence

Our Institute of Public Health houses the School’s centers of excellence – Center for Disaster Medicine, Center for Children’s Environmental Health, and Campus Collaborative Research (CCR).

These centers focus on high-priority topics of concern to communities and the nation at large. They draw upon the expertise in our academic departments and other resources outside as well as inside New York Medical College.

Research Projects

Our faculty are involved in innovative research in different areas of public health, and many of our students participate in these projects through internships, publications, and other opportunities. Learn more about our faculty’s current research projects:

Dr. Drugge (Epidemiology)

  

One aspect of Dr. Drugge’s research focuses on skin cancer risk assessment and detection modeling. This includes assessment of diagnostic accuracy of AI algorithms, telehealth dermatology and image processing techniques. Dr. Drugge’s skin cancer research is easily integrated into EPIM 5002 (Introduction to Epidemiology), providing great examples of risk factor analysis, prevalence, incidence, mortality rates, biases, etc.

Dr. Block (Health Policy & Management)

  

Dr. Block’s research focuses on how individuals make decisions in healthcare markets, specifically patient selection of hospitals and insurance plans. He has involved two Dr.P.H. students in recent articles in trade and media publications.

Dr. Knapp (Health Policy & Management)

  

Dr. Knapp has studied the prevalence of cognitive decline by caregiving status, explored challenges faced by family caregivers among the intellectually/developmentally disabled population, and assessed a resource guide for NYC’s low SES population. He has involved Dr.P.H. students in this work which has led to two publications with the students as co-authors.

Quick Facts

Career placement for D.P.T. and S.L.P. graduates is 100%.

9 public health faculty are current health commissioners & health directors in surrounding counties.

24% of students self-report as part of a group currently underrepresented in health care.

School of Health Sciences and Practice has 4,185 alumni.

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Upcoming SHSP Events

Nov 14Thursday, November 14, 2024, 1 - 2:30pm ETDrPH STUDENT RESEARCH PRESENTATION

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