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Learning Opportunities

PHX offers many lifelong learning opportunities for anyone interested in mastering a skill or learning something new. Our programs are designed to be flexible and fit into your schedule—whether you’re taking them online, on-campus, or in a blended form.

Mini-Master of Public Health (MPH)

Online | Free

The world’s health needs are changing—evolving day to day, sometimes even hour to hour. It is the role of the public health professional to stay apace with these changes to protect and improve the health of populations.

Because of the commitment to ensure access to education around pressing public health issues, Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) now offers a free, online Mini-MPH. The Mini-MPH provides foundational knowledge in public health to all interested learners. The program includes six hours of engaging, online content that covers key concepts of public health, with expert faculty, accessible to everyone.

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How do Future Public Health Leaders Think About Today’s Challenges?

Over the past few years we’ve seen more and more young people engaging in social and health related conversations on the local, national, and global level. Not only does youth engagement positively impact the community, but it helps young people develop leadership skills and self-esteem.

Summer Institute

May-July, 2023

The PHX Summer Institute offers short, immersive programs open to professionals, from across sectors, with all levels of public health knowledge. We offer a wide range of programs that teach participants career-enhancing skills, from learning to plan effective, evidence-based interventions to refining their data analysis skills, all while networking with their peers inside and outside of BUSPH.

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Foundations of Public Health

Online

Effective public health requires expertise from many disciplines, and students in public health sciences need to have a broad foundation of knowledge across these diverse disciplines in order to collaborate effectively with other health professionals.

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Webinars

Online

PHX webinars are a flexible offering that allow you to learn more about a population health topic on your own time. Join us for live-streaming of a webinar or come back and watch it later in our Media Library. Past webinar topics have included communicating science and social media presence.

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BUSPH Preferred Partner Scholars Program

The Preferred Partner Scholars Program creates opportunities for outstanding employees of partner organizations to pursue advanced training through enrollment in graduate degree programs at SPH and participation in professional continuing education with PHX.

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Winter Institute

Online January 2023

The PHX Winter Institute offers short, immersive programs open to professionals, from across sectors, with all levels of public health knowledge. We offer a wide range of programs that teach participants career-enhancing skills, from learning to plan effective, evidence-based interventions to refining their data analysis skills, all while networking with their peers inside and outside of BUSPH.

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