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Dual JD/Master of Public Health (MPH)

Boston University offers highly motivated students a unique opportunity to combine professional training in law and public health through this dual degree program offered by the School of Law (LAW) and the School of Public Health (SPH). Candidates must be accepted to both schools. Successful candidates receive both the Juris Doctor (JD) and a Master of Public Health (MPH). Student must successfully meet the requirements of both programs.

Graduates of the JD/MPH program enter careers in federal and state government agencies and legislative offices, private law practices, universities, hospitals, insurers, biotechnology companies, and nonprofit organizations.

Learning Outcomes

JD

Students will:

Possess knowledge and understanding of substantive and procedural law;

Possess the ability to perform:

Legal analysis and reasoning

Legal research

Problem-solving

Written communication in the legal context

Oral communication in the legal context;

Understand the exercise of proper professional and ethical responsibilities to clients and the legal system; and Demonstrate the professional skills of collaboration, counseling, and negotiation needed for competent and ethical participation as a member of the legal profession. All students will also demonstrate a basic understanding of business fundamentals and be able to read and understand basic financial documents.

Public Health, MPH

SPH graduates bring a well-rounded, evidence-based approach to addressing public health problems. Students will be prepared to work in a wide array of settings and understand the interplay of the biological, social, economic, cultural, political, behavioral, and environmental factors that affect health. Students will have the ability to critically analyze public health literature, create innovative solutions to problems in collaboration with others, evaluate program effectiveness, and present their views clearly to a range of audiences, both verbally and in writing.

Upon completion of the MPH degree requirements, graduates are able to:

Evidence-based Approaches to Public Health

Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice.

Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context.

Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming, and software, as appropriate.

Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy, or practice.

Public Health & Healthcare Systems

Compare the organization, structure, and function of healthcare, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings.

Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels.

Planning & Management to Promote Health

Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities' health.

Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design or implementation of public health policies or programs.

Design a population-based policy, program, project, or intervention.

Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management.

Select methods to evaluate public health programs.

Policy in Public Health

Discuss multiple dimensions of the policymaking process, including the roles of ethics and evidence.

Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes.