Trends in the Conferral of Graduate Public Health Degrees A Triangulated Approach

• Published in: Public health reports (1974) Vol. 133; no. 6; pp. 729 - 737
• Main Authors: Leider, Jonathon P., Plepys, Christine M., Castrucci, Brian C., Burke, Emily M., Blakely, Craig H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.11.2018; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Academic degrees; Data storage; Education, Public Health Professional - statistics & numerical data; Education, Public Health Professional - trends; From the Schools and Programs of Public Health; Graduate students; Graduate studies; Humans; Medical personnel; Public health; Public health education; Schools, Public Health - statistics & numerical data; Schools, Public Health - trends; Standardization; Trends; United States; United States; United States > US
• ISSN: 0033-3549; 1468-2877
• DOI: 10.1177/0033354918791542

Trends in the conferral of public health degrees provide a lens into the public health workforce. As the needs of workforce development grow and change, it is imperative to accurately characterize trends in degree conferrals to estimate the future size and composition of the public health workforce. The challenging task of enumerating public health degree conferrals aligns with the equally challenging task of enumerating the public health workforce, for which the “methodology used needs further improvements in standardization, specificity, data storage, and data availability.” Although a 2015 study characterized the growth of the undergraduate public health major in the United States, our study focused on graduate-level public health education trends in the United States.