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MPH in Health Promotion and Urban Planning (MPH/MURP)

Our Health Promotion and Community Health graduate programs prepare you to drive social change, advance health equity, and remove barriers to community health.

Health Promotion

The OHSU-PSU School of Public Health (SPH) unites two outstanding research universities that have spent decades working to help reduce health disparities and designing innovative solutions to public health challenges.

Our graduate degrees in Health Promotion and Community Health equip you to identify the root causes of health problems and to devise interventions that create healthier communities from local to global levels. You will have opportunities to work with leading experts in the areas of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD), social determinants of health, sexual and reproductive health, food systems and nutrition, physical activity, aging, and other pressing issues.

Program Benefits

  • Commitment to equitable, socially just access to health and health-supporting resources for all.
  • Holistic approach that is built on collaboration among experts from multiple academic disciplines.
  • Emphasis on solving real-world health challenges.
  • Partnerships and engagement with a breadth of populations and social groups.
  • Deep relationships with state, county, and local agencies; schools; nonprofit organizations; and other community stakeholders.
  • Tight-knit culture that fosters supportive relationships among faculty and students.
  • Direct access to OHSU’s medical and scientific experts and PSU’s leading scholars in community engagement, public policy, urban affairs, and the social sciences.

Dual Degree MPH & Master of Urban Planning

By combining an MPH in Health Promotion with Portland State’s nationally ranked Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) degree, you can sharpen your ability to examine and understand the effects of “place” on the health of communities and society, in general. You will develop tools to promote public health through community structures and systems such as transportation, housing, open space, population density, air and water quality, and public safety.

The MURP degree includes advanced training in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other analytical methods for understanding the organization of cities and metropolitan regions, and the two degrees, together, will enable you to assess the impacts of such organization on the public’s health. You can complete the MPH/MURP dual degree program in three years, a full year less than if each degree had been completed alone.

Accreditation & Rankings

The OHSU-PSU School of Public Health is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH).

Program Requirements & Guide

To see all of the graduate program guides for an overview of degree requirements and current programs of study, visit the MPH and MS Requirements page.


MPH / MURP Program Requirements Guide

Master of Public Health, Health Promotion & Urban Planning program requirements and guide.

PROGRAM GUIDE


Recruitment & Admissions

Schedule an appointment with our Recruitment & Admissions Manager.

SCHEDULE APPOINTMENT

Contact Information

Have Quesitons?

Contact our Program Directors or our Recruitment & Admissions Manager with your questions about our MPH program.

MPH Application Questions – Josh Hodsden, MBA, CPH
applysph@pdx.edu
503-494-1158

MURP Application Questions
PSU MURP Degree
murpadm@pdx.edu – Pauline Duffy
503-725-4016

APPLY TO THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Take the next steps and apply to our MPH in Health Promotion / Master of Urban Planning dual degree program.

Learn about the application process and requirements for applying to the Master of Public Health in Health Promotion & MURP.

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Application Requirements

Admission information for Graduate OHSU-PSU School of Public Health students.

Graduate Admissions

Tuition & Fees

School of Public Health guidelines for tuition and fees for graduate programs.

SPH Tuition & Fees

Financial Aid

Learn more about SPH financial aid opportunities for graduate students.

SPH Financial Aid