The School has been engaged in strategic planning for the past six months. One of the first accomplishments was discussing and revising our Vision and Mission. These were done with considerable input while retaining our values and commitment to Louisiana.
We envision “a healthier Louisiana population with a workforce addressing the structural and emergent issues affecting public health.” Therefore, our School’s Mission is to: “advance health equity through evidenced-based education, research, and practice for populations in the context of a changing climate”.
This strategic planning process along with reflection from our first 20 years as a School of Public Health has led to the recognition of the need to revitalize our MPH program. The goals of this process were based upon feedback from current students, alumni, community partners and other public health stakeholders and include new concentrations and a streamlined core.
The new concentrations were organized to reflect the diverse work and expertise of our current faculty and help identify future growth opportunities for the school in research and practice. The streamlined core helps to strike the right balance between discipline-specific and interdisciplinary courses to give students a solid grounding in their program yet enhances their learning of broader perspectives. By building the core and program curriculum with competencies first, we can achieve our goal of graduate outcomes that fulfill employer needs and improve the public health workforce, while still allowing for flexibility.
The Biostatistics and Data Sciences program has a clear educational mission: to train students in statistical, computational, and data science methods to apply the methods to tackle intricate challenges within public health and biomedical research. The program offers the MPH, MS, and PhD degrees.
Community Health Science and Policy is focused on promoting wellness, preventing disease, and improving the quality of life among marginalized communities and populations by focusing on systems, equity, and policy impact. This program offers the MPH, MD/MPH, MSW/MPH, and PhD degrees.
The Environmental Health, Climate and Sustainability Program was created to address the shortage of public health professionals with the background to address emerging environmental health risks, including climate change and environmental injustice, as public health issues. No solution will be successful without ensuring high vulnerability populations have the institutional, technical, and financial resources they need to foster community resilience. The program offers the MPH, MD/MPH, and DVM/MPH degrees.
The mission of the Epidemiology and Population Health Program is to reduce health inequities among population groups by exploring determinants of health factors such as social structures, the environment, health behaviors, resource distribution, quality gaps, policy impacts, (etc.) on clinical outcomes and community health. The program offers the MPH, MD/MPH, and PhD degrees.
Edward J. Trapido, ScD, FACE
Dean and Professor
Wendell Gauthier, Chair of Cancer Epidemiology
LSU School of Public Health
2020 Gravier St., 3rd Floor
New Orleans, LA 70112
504-569-5700
www.publichealth.lsuhsc.edu
etrapi@lsuhsc.edu
