Potential Master’s Degree
Programs
Master’s Degrees that can help
further your career in the
Department of Health
By: Rachel Betz
Masters of Public Health
• A graduate program in Public Health focuses on the
biological, physical and chemical factors that affect the
health of a community, as well as the planning, policy
analysis and administration of health programs.
• Graduates with a masters or PhD degree in public
health may become public policy directors, directors of
health, economics and pricing, senior public health
advisors and more.
Masters of Public Health
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
• The USP master's in public health (MPH) provides you
with the knowledge, practical training, and analytical
skills you need to realize your full potential in
improving public health.
• Through the MPH you focus on areas such as:
• Assuring public health through access to high-quality prevention and
health promotion
• Tracking epidemics to their source, such as bird flu-like illnesses
• Creating educational campaigns to combat childhood obesity by
encouraging healthy lifestyles
• Advocating for improved health policies through both regulatory and
legislative channels
Masters in Marketing
• Graduate programs in Marketing Business teach
students to target a specific population or group in order
to more efficiently sell a product. Graduates with an MBA
or PhD degree in marketing business can enter careers
as directors of marketing, consumer advocates,
advertising executives and more.
• Masters in Marketing can enhance your career in the
Department of Health because it gives you more
experience and education when it comes to advertising
and strategizing seminars and screenings.
Masters in Marketing
Northcentral University
• Online Masters Degree
• A distance learning degree program that generally prepares individuals to
undertake and manage the process of developing consumer audiences and
moving products from producers to consumers.
• Includes instruction in buyer behavior and dynamics, principle of marketing
research, demand analysis, cost-volume and profit relationships, pricing
theory, marketing campaign and strategic planning, market segments,
advertising methods, sales operations and management, consumer relations,
retailing, and applications to specific products and markets.
• Marketing is a great background to have because it prepares you with many of
techniques you will use in the Department of Health
Master’s in Exercise
Physiology
• Focuses on the scientific study of the physiological processes involved in
physical or motor activity, including sensorimotor interactions, response
mechanisms, and the effects of injury, disease, and disability.
• The degree includes instruction of:
– muscular and skeletal anatomy molecular and cellular basis of muscle
contraction
– neurophysiology of motor mechanics
– systemic physiological responses (respiration, blood flow, endocrine
secretions)
– fatigue and exhaustion
– muscle and body training
– physiology of specific exercises and activities, physiology of injury
– and the effects of disabilities and disease.
Master’s of Exercise Physiology
West Virginia University
• Exercise physiologists work to prevent or delay the onset of chronic disease
in healthy participants or to provide therapeutic or functional benefits to
patients with diseases
• Services may be offered in a variety of medical settings such as hospitals,
rehabilitation centers, and out-patient clinics, in community, corporate,
commercial and university fitness and wellness centers, in nursing homes
and senior citizens centers, as well as in research and academic settings
• Exercise Physiology is a great background to have for the Department of
Health because it teaches you how to help prevent disease and improve the
lifestyle of a community or the wellness of an individual in assisted living or
the hospital setting