“I chose Dartmouth because I wanted personalized
interaction with well-respected faculty members
and the opportunity to have closer relationships
with my peers who are going to be my colleagues
in the future.”
Lead change in health and health care and achieve your career goals
The Dartmouth accelerated on-campus Master of Public Health (MPH) program is designed to help you develop or advance your career while gaining a rigorous understanding of:
- Determinants of Health
- Health Policy
- Quality Improvement
- Health Services Research
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Decision Analysis
- Improvement and Innovation in Healthcare and Health Systems
Through an 11-month immersive, hands-on experience, you will gain the skills and tools you need to boost your career. You will learn how to use data, impact policies and lead change to overcome the barriers that stand in the way of improving health care delivery and health system performance. Through it all, you will be guided and mentored by our world-renowned faculty who are the innovators behind many of the most disruptive ideas in health care today.
With a 12:1 student-to-faculty ratio, we intentionally keep our class sizes small to enrich your discussions and group projects with your peers. Your classmates have a range of backgrounds and you each bring something different to the classroom. Join mid-career professionals including research analysts, dieticians, nurses and businesspeople, experienced physicians and medical residents, and recent college graduates. Everyone plays a role in improving health care.
Here’s how the program works
Following online foundational pre-work in July, students start on-campus courses in August and take classes four to five days per week. The academic year is divided into four terms culminating with graduation the following June. The first half of the year covers core coursework such as measuring health, biostatistics, inferential epidemiology, and health services administration and leadership, and weaves components of health policy and determinants of health throughout the core curriculum. In the second half of the year, students shape their interests through electives in health policy, quality improvement, and health services research. Student also have the opportunity to pursue an independent internship or an independent research project to further tailor their studies.
Getting to know your peers who will lead change is just as important as academics. Students supplement their full-time studies with participating in a variety of extracurricular activities at the Institute and across Dartmouth’s campus. The Medical Ethics interest group and the Global Health Fellows are particularly popular among our students.
11 MONTH PROGRAM
55 STUDENTS PER CLASS
5 COURSES AT A TIME
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Bio
Meghan Longacre is a child developmental researcher with expertise in the socioecological influences on children’s, adolescents’, and young adult’s health risk behaviors. For the past 12 years, her research has focused on the prevention of childhood obesity. Her current work examines the influence of food marketing on preschoolers’ diet. Meghan has worked with several prominent community organizations, including the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, Vermont, and WGBH, the Boston PBS Affiliate, to design and evaluate research-informed curricula to promote energy-balance practices in preschool, middle-school, and high-school settings. She serves on the board of editors for the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, and is a reviewer for NIH’s Time-Sensitive Obesity Policy and Program Evaluation mechanism. As a qualitative researcher, Meghan consults with research teams regarding appropriate use of qualitative methods within child-focused research projects.
More recently, Meghan served as the director of the Hybrid (online/on-campus) Master of Public Health program at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. She currently teaches the Qualitative Research Methods short course in the Hybrid MPH program. In addition, she is the co-Course Director for the “Practicum” series of courses (PH261-PH264), which combines the Applied Practice Experience and Integrated Learning Experience requirements for the Hybrid MPH program. Since coming to Dartmouth in 2001, she has mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students.
She earned a BA in psychology from Rutgers University, and an MS and PhD in family studies and human development from The University of Arizona.
Published Research
Courses Taught
PH 261/262/263/264:
Practicum and Practicum Intensive
(3.75 units)
The TDI Hybrid MPH includes a concurrent practicum course that runs throughout the entire program, combining an Applied Practice Experience, or APE (a field study) with an Integrated Learning Experience, or ILE (written culminating project). Students develop and execute their own individual practicum with faculty support, focusing on a specific problem area or question. Skills gained in the program serve to improve health and/or health care, develop or refine policy, or generate new knowledge in a real-world setting. Using systems thinking, qualitative and quantitative methods, along with effective inquiry, student practicums will provide actionable insights and feasible recommendations.
PH 214:
Introduction to Survey Methods for Public Health and Healthcare
(0.50 unit)
This course introduces students to the use of survey methods in public health and healthcare. Students will learn basic principles of survey study design and data collection, focusing on evidence-based designs such as the tailored design survey approach. Specific activities used to learn survey methods include writing and critiquing survey questions, evaluating survey formats, and designing survey studies, including sampling, survey mode and recruitment based on the study question, context and target population.
PH 161:
MPH Internship
(4)
The public health field internship provides students with an opportunity to apply principles and skills learned in the classroom - the measurement, organization, and improvement of public health care - to real situations in the field. A minimum of 120 hours is to be spent at the placement site during the winter and spring terms. Typically, this internship occurs in the final term of the year, but other arrangements are possible, typically for part-time students, with permission of the course director. Students who have completed their internships prepare and present an overview of their experience at the conclusion of the spring term and complete an exit appraisal of their experience and achievements.
Required for MPH; Not available for MS, PhD, Post-doc or Special students.
Prerequisites: PH 100, 102, 111, 115, 117, 139, 140, 151, and 154 or consent of course directors.
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MORE ABOUT PAUL'S WORK
Meghan Longacre serves on the board of editors for the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, and is a study section reviewer for NIH’s Time-Sensitive Obesity Policy and Program Evaluation grants. She serves on The Dartmouth Institute's curriculum committee, and also serves as a board member for the Montshire Corporation at the Montshire Museum in Norwich, Vermont.