Vision: To advance social justice through public health education that addresses health disparities and advances health equity among historically marginalized communities.
Mission: To provide social justice-centered public health training with a focus on racially and ethnically diverse students to address health disparities and advance health equity in historically marginalized communities, including South Los Angeles.
Goals: To provide a social justice-centered public health education that focuses on structural competency and social determinants of urban health disparities.
To address urban health disparities and advance health equity through research.
To support the development of a community-engaged and social justice-centered public health workforce.
Values: Our program values varied cultures, races, ethnicities, ages, genders, classes, orientations, and abilities. We acknowledge differences and the sharing of the experiences, challenges, and contributions of those differences. Our diversity is built on tenets of respect, equity, support, inclusion, and representation.
- Social Justice and Health Equity
- Community Responsibility and Service
- Excellence, Professionalism, Leadership, and Integrity
- Respect for Cultural Diversity
Upon degree completion, BSPH graduates will have the knowledge and skills to address the following nine (9) Council on Education in Public Health (CEPH) Bachelor’s Public Health Domains:
- Overview of Public Health: Address the history and philosophy of public health as well as its core values, concepts, and functions across the globe and in society.
- Role and Importance of Data in Public Health: Address the basic concepts, methods, and tools of public health data collection, use, and analysis and why evidence-based approaches are an essential part of public health practice.
- Identifying and Addressing Population Health Challenges: Address the concepts of population health, and the basic processes, approaches, and interventions that identify and address the major health-related needs and concerns of populations.
- Human Health: Address the underlying science of human health and disease including opportunities for promoting and protecting health across the life course.
- Determinants of Health: Address the socio-economic, behavioral, biological, environmental, and other factors that impact human health and contribute to health disparities.
- Project Implementation: Address the fundamental concepts and features of project implementation, including planning, assessment, and evaluation.
- Overview of the Health System: Address the fundamental characteristics and organizational structures of the U.S. health system as well as to the differences in systems in other countries.
- Health Policy, Law, Ethics, and Economics: Address the basic concepts of legal, ethical, economic, and regulatory dimensions of health care and public health policy, and the roles, influences and responsibilities of the different agencies and branches of government.
- Health Communications: Address the basic concepts of public health-specific communication, including technical and professional writing and the use of mass media and electronic technology.
Upon degree completion, BSPH graduates will have the knowledge and skills to address the following eight (8) Council on Education in Public Health (CEPH) Bachelor’s Public Health Domains:
MPH Program Foundational Public Health Competencies (FPHC) | Urban Health Disparities Competencies (UHDC) |
Evidence-based Approaches to Public Health 1. Apply epidemiological methods to settings and situations in public health practice. 2. Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context. 3. Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming, and software, as appropriate. 4. Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy, or practice. Public Health & Health Care Systems 5. Compare the organization, structure, and function of health care, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings. 6. Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community and systemic levels. Planning & Management to Promote Health 7. Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities’ health. 8. Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design, implementation, or critique of public health policies or programs. 9. Design a population-based policy, program, project, or intervention. 10. Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management. 11. Select methods to evaluate public health programs. Policy in Public Health 12. Discuss the policy-making process including the roles of ethics and evidence. 13. Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations. 14. Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations. 15. Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity. Leadership 16. Apply leadership and/or management principles to address a relevant issue. 17. Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges. Communication 18. Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors. 19. Communicate audience-appropriate (i.e., non-academic, non-peer audience) public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation. 20. Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content. Interprofessional and/or Intersectoral Practice 21. Integrate perspectives from other sectors and/or professions to promote and advance population health. Systems Thinking 22. Apply a systems thinking tool to visually represent a public health issue in a format other than standard narrative. | 1. Analyze the complex relationship between anti-racism movements, social justice, and determinants of health. 2. Discuss the historical formations and uses of race and culture in health sciences research, policy and practice as it applies to structural racism. 3. Practice ethical and effective community engagement approaches with historically marginalized urban communities. 4. Assess public health programs/projects that address urban health disparities for their impact on social justice. 5. Develop theory-based culturally-responsive behavioral change programs that address urban health disparities using a community-led approach to improve the health of historically marginalized urban communities. |