MPH 2021

MASTER of PUBLIC HEALTH HEALTH POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO | SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | HEALTH POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION

PROGRAM FEATURES 3

DELIVERY FORMATS

ON-LINE ON-SITE HYBRID

5

2

YEARS To completion full-time 3 years part-time

2

INTER-DEPARTMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS

TRACKS

Global Health

49-SH

Women's Health

for new undergrads

Gender & Women's Studies

43-SH

Survey Research Methodology

for public health

Violence Studies

professionals

APPLIED PRACTICE (AP) EXPERIENCE When Ysabelle Burgos, BA in Public Health ’18, MPH in Health Policy and Administration ’20, was a teenager, she moved from the Philippines to the United States. In summer 2019, as part of her MPH global applied practice experience, she traveled back to the Philippines, working with Child Family Health International and focused on emergency management and preparedness.

“I saw a lot of the same things, but before I only thought of these problems as one that comes with an immediate solution,” Burgos said. “With a public health perspective, I see there’s a reason why there is overpopulation in urban areas, why rural areas tend to have fewer resources.”

Burgos’s work centered on the island of Tablas, within the municipality of Alcantara. She met with the disaster readiness team in Alcantara, where she quickly learned that disaster management in this rural location is closely tied to healthcare delivery. With some training as an emergency medical technician and fluency in Tagalog, Burgos accompanied health workers in their duties at a local clinic and across the area. Her responsibilities ranged from checking in patients to assisting nurses and midwives out in villages to observing health promotion and school-based immunization programs.

2019 AP SITES

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

FACULTY HIGHLIGHT

Dr. Kim co-leads the newly established Population Health Analytics, Metrics and Evaluation center.

Sage Kim, PhD, focuses on the effects of concentrated poverty and neighborhood effects on racial/ethnic cancer health disparities. Using various methods such as spatial analysis and multilevel models, she explores spatial patterns of arrest/incarceration, healthcare transition from corrections to the community, and neighborhood factors that influence cancer screening and stage of diagnosis. Her research includes the effects of hyper-arrest on neighborhood economic outcomes, racialized surveillance and the use of police gang databases, treatment adherence among former inmates with HIV infection, and the uneven distribution of safety net programs.

The PHAME Center at UIC will combine novel technology with academic expertise to provide a hub of advanced data visualization, evaluation, and analytics to community members, students, policymakers, and researchers in Chicago and beyond.

Sage Kim

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Shambreia McBrayer

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Shambreai received her Master of Public Health (MPH) in Health Policy and Administration (HPA) with a Global Health Concentration in 2015.

She currently holds the title of Division Manager with the American Lung Association in Greater Chicago, where she manages the administrative needs of four national smoke-free housing initiatives that assist with transitioning multi-unit buildings from smoking to smoke-free.

Shambreia has over five years of experience providing direct rehabilitative care to individuals with mental illness, substance use disorders, and individuals experiencing homelessness.

YOUR CAREER Chicago is one of the major healthcare markets within the United States where many healthcare professional associations are based such as the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, and the American College of Healthcare Executives. Additionally, the city is home to nationally prominent academic health centers and several of the largest healthcare systems in the country. This provides an outstanding opportunity to network with healthcare professionals and to find rewarding job opportunities within the robust healthcare market.

WHERE OUR ALUMNI WORK Health Policy and Administration graduates pursue careers as policy advocates, informatics specialists, clinical researchers, health care administrators, health services researchers and health policy researchers in a variety of organizations including hospitals, associations, public and private organizations as well as governmental and nongovernmental agencies.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention American Lung Association Heartland Alliance American Medical Association Health Chicago United Healthcare Advocate Health Care City of Philadelphia Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO | SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | HEALTH POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION

STUDENT SUCCESS

Master’s Level Scholarly Public Health Practice Honorable Mention: Madison Offstein Poster Title: Lessons Learned from CPS Parents: Understanding Parent Engagement and Integration of the WSCC Model in the Implementation of Healthy CPS This is from our P3RC Core Research Project

Mary Cleary, a 1st year MPH student in HPA and an RA on the P3RC CRP was awarded the best poster award for the Master’s Scholarly Public Health Practice competition from SPH Research Day! Mary was also an inducted to the University of Illinois Chicago, School of Public Health, Delta Omega Honorary Society (Lambda Chapter) the national honorary public health fraternity.

Master’s Level Public Health Research Best Poster: Kendall Thiede Poster Title: Early childcare directors’ qualitative perspectives on Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) sponsors: Preliminary findings This is from my RWJF grant with Yuka Asada

THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO IS AN ACCLAIMED RESEARCH ONE INSTITUTION

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HPA MPH candidate Hannah Bonecutter is the recipient of two prestigious awards, the Chancellor’s Student Service Award and the Eugertha Bates Memorial Award! Both speak to Hannah's significant contributions to community service projects and humanitarian needs.

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HPA MPH/MUPP student, Danielle Drinkurth has been selected for the distinguished Schweitzer Fellowship, a year-long service learning program that helps address the health needs of underserved Chicago communities.

SAMPLE COURSE SEQUENCE Full-Time

Fall Semester | 2nd year (14 credits)

Fall Semester | 1st year (14 credits) ACTG 510 Financial and Managerial Accounting for Healthcare Management (3 credits) BSTT 400 Biostatistics (4 credits) HPA 403 U.S. Health Care System (3 credits) HPA 410 Healthcare Organizational Leadership (3 credits) HPA 490 Topics in Healthcare Leadership (1 credit)

HPA HPA HPA EPID HPA HPA

Spring Semester | 2nd year (14 credits)

Spring Semester | 1st year (13 credits) HPA HPA HPA HPA HPA

451 Healthcare Finance I (3 credits) 470 Quantitative Methods for Healthcare Managers (3 credits) 430 Introduction to Health Policy (3 credits) 425 Healthcare Human Resources Management (3 credits) 495 MHA Preceptorship (Professional Development) (1 credit)

417 Quality Management in Health Services (3 credits) 434 Healthcare Law (3 credits) 505 Strategic Planning/ Marketing (3 credits) 509 Physician Relations (3 credits 495 MHA Preceptorship (1 credit)

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463 Managerial Health Economics (3 credits) 452 Healthcare Finance II (3(3 credits) 525 Population Based Healthcare Services Planning (3 credits) 403 Intro to Epidemiology (3 credits) 495 MHA Preceptorship (1 credit) 496 MHA Capstone I (1 credit)

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Summer Semester | 1st year (5 credits) HPA 495 MHA Preceptorship (2 credits) HPA 461 Information & Decision Support Systems for Healthcare Administration (3 credits) HPA 496 MHA Capstone (1 credit)

*We offer two-year full-time and three and four-year part-time schedule completion options. Classes are held primarily in the early evening to accommodate our preceptorship program and part-time students.

Program Delivery Campus based; some online courses

Application Deadlines Domestic applicant: March 15 International applicant: December 15

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