Annual Report Feb 16 2021

Letter From The MPH Director
The year 2020 was an eventful one for our MPH program. We
strengthened our program mission statement to add a focus on the
family and leadership while retaining our previous focus on serving
marginalized and disadvantaged populations.
The mission of the BYU MPH program is to develop future public
health leaders who drive change that improves the health and well-being of
communities, families, and individuals. To this end, the program prepares
students to conduct public health surveillance, and to plan, implement,
and evaluate public health programs and policies that focus on at-risk
populations in both domestic and international settings.
In response to the changing landscape in public health and feedback
from our partners in the field (including many of you), a committee of
students and faculty worked together throughout the year to redesign
the curriculum for our entire graduate program. The new curriculum
is intended to give students more flexibility in specializing in different
areas of public health, help students learn via a more integrated
approach, build essential skills that are important for new graduates in
public health, and better match our mission statement. We hope that
these changes, which will be proposed to the university for approval
this coming year, will strengthen our program further and provide
students with a variety of areas to specialize in as graduate students.
Ben Crookston
MPH Director and Professor
Brigham Young University
Over the past few years we have had students enter our program from
countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. The diverse
backgrounds and perspectives they have brought to our program have
helped us all to grow and see the world in new ways. In an effort to
keep this positive momentum towards diversity going, we established a
student-led committee on diversity and inclusion this past year. We are
excited for the work this committee is doing to help all who come here
feel safe, welcome, and part of our BYU MPH family.
As we reflect on the ups and downs of 2020, we are grateful for the
incredible students and faculty that made this year memorable in
so many positive ways. We believe our 2020 experience and efforts
to change for the better will help us prepare students in new and
improved ways for current and future challenges in public health in
addition to helping them “in their quest for perfection and eternal
life”. We are excited for what 2021 will bring!
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“We
are
working... ...to
help all who come
here feel safe,
welcome, and part
of our BYU
MPH family”
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