Category: NYU Disaster Programs

NYU students develop templates for healthcare facilities and organizations to meet an unfulfilled need, targeting gaps in public health preparedness in acute care settings, tertiary hospitals, dental care, and nursing facilities. There are hazard specific plans on the epidemiology departments website created for various facilities all around the world such as flooding in Pakistan, NYC mass vaccination campaigns, and fatality management for NYU Langone to name a few. 

Download the plans from this website. 

New York University offers two different doctorate level programs in public health, a doctorate of philosophy (PhD) and a doctorate of public health (DrPH).

PhD candidates have 4 areas of study to select from, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Social & Behavioral Sciences, or Public Health Policy & Management. Get more information here. 

The DrPH program aims to develop innovative and transformative leaders in the field of public health practice, to learn more about his program click here. 

The MPH program offers 8 different concentrations at the New York University School of Global Public Health:

• Biostatistics
• Community Health Science and Practice
• Environmental Public Health Sciences
• Epidemiology
• Global Health
• Public Health Nutrition
• Public Health Policy
• Public Health Management
• Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

And 5 dual-degree programs:

• Medicine (MD/MPH)
• Dentistry (DDS/MPH)
• Public administration (MPA/MPH)
• Nursing (MS/MPH)
• Social work (MSW/MPH)

Learn more here. 

NYU’s School of Global Public Health offers an advanced certificate in public health disaster science, policy and practice to all professionals who are interested in the field. Current students can apply in conjunction with the Master of Public Health, Doctorate of Public Health, or PhD program. The certificate builds on the following skills:

• Leadership, management and decision making.
• Communication, coordination and community engagement.
• Evaluating and designing preparedness, response and recovery interventions. 
• Research and development.
• Agent-based modeling techniques to critically analyze the design of disaster preparedness, response and recovery systems.
• Networking with public health professionals, mentors and scholars.

Find out how to apply here.