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Public Health and Tropical Medicine, MPHTM at Tulane University

Tulane University, United States

Programme overview

The MPHTM is a public health degree specialising in infectious diseases, especially those prevalent in tropical regions. It prepares practitioners to plan and evaluate disease control programmes, physicians to treat tropical diseases, and students heading to medical school.

Faculty: Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine  |  Department: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease  |  Duration: 45 credit hours  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: New Orleans, LA, United States

What you will study

Foundational public health courses plus Medical Helminthology, Medical Entomology, Medical Protozoology and Malaria, Microbial Disease of the Tropics, Tropical Virology, and Disease Control in Low Resource Settings, with 9 elective credits. Clinicians can complete requirements for the ASTMH Diploma Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine.

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Application information

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Each school at Tulane administers its own graduate and professional admission process.

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