Applicant Information
Overview
The Master of Public Health and Master of Science in Nursing is a unique dual degree program offered at the University of British Columbia. This program is jointly offered by the School of Population and Public Health and the School of Nursing.
Nurses constitute the largest group of professionals in the public health work force. The MPH/MSN joint degree program will produce advanced practice public health nurses who have integrated knowledge and training in epidemiology, biostatistics, health service management, population-focused nursing interventions, policy development, research, and leadership skills and are capable of applying them to a diverse range of public health issues in interdisciplinary environments.
The MPH degree is currently the most widely recognized professional credential for leadership in public health, while the MSN provides advanced practice, nursing management, and research skills for supporting public health nurse leaders, and evaluating public health nursing practice. In addition, nurses in the MPH/MSN program will have access to a variety of courses in either School that address core competencies as defined by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
What makes the program unique?
Students in the program will have the opportunity in research and practical experience through a thesis in Nursing and a practicum in the MPH program. These requirements will enable graduates to be well prepared for admission to doctoral programs if they so desire.
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Research Supervisors
Supervision
Students in research-based programs usually require a faculty member to function as their thesis supervisor. Please follow the instructions provided by each program whether applicants should contact faculty members.
Instructions regarding thesis supervisor contact for this program
Advice and insights from UBC Faculty on reaching out to supervisors
These videos contain some general advice from faculty across UBC on finding and reaching out to a supervisor. They are not program specific.
This list shows faculty members with full supervisory privileges who are affiliated with this program. It is not a comprehensive list of all potential supervisors as faculty from other programs or faculty members without full supervisory privileges can request approvals to supervise graduate students in this program.
- Amri, Michelle (Global Health Ethics; normative nature of health equity; Health Equity; Public Policy; Governance; Global Health; International health; global health ethics, normative nature of health equity, health equity, public policy, governance, global health, International health)
- Anis, Aslam (cost effectiveness of AIDS treatments; drug assessments – pharmacoeconomics; health care economics; health regulations, Health economics, rhematoid arthritis, biologic therapies)
- Bansback, Nick (inform policies and practices in health through the application of)
- Bartlett, Sofia (sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STIBBIs), tuberculosis, substance use, incarceration)
- Bhatti, Parveen (molecular epidemiology of cancer; occupational and environmental epidemiology of cancer; mechanistic studies of exposed populations ; molecular epidemiology of cancer, occupational and environmental epidemiology of cancer, mechanistic studies of exposed populations)
- Black, Charlyn (Health services research, Population health, Quality, effectivenes and outcomes of health care, Health information systems, Knowledge translation, Research and policy)
- Brauer, Michael (air pollution; built environment; Community Health / Public Health; environmental health; environmental epidemiology; environmental health; healthy cities; remote sensing; Air pollution, Built environment, Community Health / Public Health, Environmental Health, Environmental epidemiology, Environmental health, Healthy cities, Remote sensing)
- Brussoni, Mariana (Developmental psychology; injury prevention; Children's outdoor play; Risky play; Parenting; health behaviour change; Implementation Science; Developmental psychology, Injury prevention, Children's outdoor play, Risky play, Parenting, health behaviour change, Implementation science)
- Bryan, Stirling (Economics of health care, policy, from UK)
- Byers, Kaylee
- Cox, Susan (Experiences of individuals and families at risk for, or affected by, a range of adult onset hereditary and/or genetic conditions (eg, Huntington Disease and Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease))
- Davies, Hugh (Antineoplastic drug hazards; Community Health / Public Health; environmental health; Exposure Assessment; Noise and Health; Occupational Health; Occupational Safety and Health; Antineoplastic drug hazards, Community Health / Public Health, Environmental Health, Exposure Assessment, Noise and Health, Occupational Health, Occupational Safety and Health)
- Deering, Kathleen (Sexual health inequities, Gender and health, HIV prevention, treatment and care, Sex work, Social/health geography , Gender and violence, Stigma , Community-based research, Novel methodological approaches in epidemiology)
- Dummer, Trevor (health geography, cancer prevention, environmental exposures, health inequalities, geographic information science, obesity, risk factors, Environmental epidemiology and environment and health interactions, with specific emphasis on cancer etiology and cancer prevention)
- Elango, Rajavel (Protein Nutrition, Maternal-Fetal Nutrition, Childhood Malnutrition, Amino Acid Metabolism, Human Nutrition)
- Frank, Erica (Free education; Preventive Medicine; Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Holocaust studies; Exile Reintegration; Democratization; Intervention Research; Free education, Preventive medicine, Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Holocaust Studies, Exile Reintegration, Democratization, Intervention Research)
- Gadermann, Anne (Social determinants of health; Housing and homelessness; Quality of)
- Gilbert, Mark (Development, implementation, evaluation and scale-up of innovative sexual health programs; Gay men’s sexual health, including sexual health literacy; Synergistic and integrated dynamics of infectious diseases, mental illness and other conditions; Development, implementation, evaluation and scale-up of innovative sexual health programs, Gay men’s sexual health, including sexual health literacy, Synergistic and integrated dynamics of infectious diseases, mental illness and other conditions)
- Greyson, Devon (Everyday health information behaviours & practices; Population health information interventions; Health mis/dis/malinformation; Vaccine confidence and decision making about vaccination; LGBTQ+ health; Qualitative and mixed methods; Everyday health information behaviours & practices, Population health information interventions, Health mis/dis/malinformation, Vaccine confidence and decision making about vaccination, LGBTQ+ health, Qualitative and mixed methods)
- Guhn, Martin (social context and child development/well-being; Population health; social determinants of health; social context and child development/well-being, population health, social determinants of health)
- Henderson, Sarah (wildfire smoke; air pollution; Extreme weather events; environmental health; radon gas; Food safety; Water quality; wildfire smoke, air pollution, extreme weather events, environmental health, radon gas, food safety, water quality)
- Joseph, K.S. (Pregnancy complications, preterm birth, fetal growth, infant mortality, neonatal)
- Kalua, Khumbo (Neglected Tropical Eye Diseases; Global Eye Health; Cluster Randomized Trials ; Implementation Science; International Global Health; Community Based Research; Clinical trials; Neglected Tropical Eye Diseases, Global Eye Health, Cluster Randomized Trials , Implementation Science, International Global Health, Community Based Research, Clinical Trials)
- Karim, Ehsan (Causal inference; Biostatistics; Statistics; Machine Learning; data science; Survey data analysis; multiple sclerosis; Causal Inference, Biostatistics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Data science, Survey data analysis, Multiple sclerosis)
- Kassam, Rosemin (Child Health, Malnutrition, Adult Chronic Disease, Geriatrics; Child Health, Malnutrition, Adult Chronic Disease, Geriatrics)
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