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rgia Facts Get your Master’s or Doctor
of Public Health Degree
About …

Rabies Three Great Opportunities !!

Data for Rabies Cases for 2012* Georgia State University

3,949 = Animal/Human Investigations At Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta, the
1,228 = Animal/Animal Investigations School of Public Health provides graduate level public
health education that serves the needs of those
Resulting in: interested in working in public health and healthcare
2,850 = Animals Confined including tracks in environmental health, epidemiology,
966 = Animals Euthanized health policy, and health communication. Specifically, the
774 = Tested Specimens School offers a 39 semester-hour Master of Public Health
172 = Positive Rabies Cases (MPH) degree program, a 15-hour Graduate Certificate in
473 = Treatment Recommended for Public Health (CPH), and a … hour Doctorate of Public
Health (DrPH). Complete your degree while working! For
Victim more information, visit http://publichealth.gsu.edu.
95 = Rabies Clinics
University of Georgia
* Due to incremental roll out of SendSS across
the state through 2012, not all counties are The University of Georgia is training the next generation
represented for all months in these statistics of public health policy makers, practitioners and
researchers with the new UGA master’s degree program
in public health. UGA’s Biomedical and Health Sciences
Institute (BHSI) and its Division of Public Health initially
will coordinate the interdisciplinary degree program. It will
be a unique collaboration between many UGA academic
units, including the departments of Environmental Health
Science and Health Promotion and Behavior. For more
information about this degree program, call the BHSI
office at 706,542.5922, or visit www.biomed.uga.edu/
public_health.html.

Georgia Southern University

The Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia
Southern University in Statesboro transitioned from a
school to a college in 2006, and provides three graduate
level public health degrees that serve the needs of those
interested in working in rural communities and
underserved populations to address public health issues,
eliminate health disparities and improve health
outcomes. Areas of concentration include Biostatistics,
Community Health, Environmental Health Sciences,
Epidemiology, and Health Policy and Management. The
college offers a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree
program, a Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH) and
Masters in Healthcare Administration (MHA). For more
information, visit http://jphcoph.georgiasouthern.edu.

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