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Department of Public Health Sciences

The Department of Public Health Sciences (DPHS) is an academic unit of the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. The Department is a collaborative, collegial, and broad group of scholars who value excellence in its academic missions of research, teaching, and professional service. We foster education at multiple levels, including our three doctoral and five master’s programs, while we enhance the training of public health leaders as agents of change.

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Meet the people who make up the Department of Public Health Sciences (DPHS) at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).

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The MUSC DPHS faculty and students foster a collaborative community that inspires the next generation of public health researchers and practitioners. Not a day goes by that I do not learn something new in this program, whether from a faculty member or peer.

Garrett Stang Public Health Society President

Research in DPHS

Research endeavors in Public Health Sciences cover a variety of topics including cancer research, autoimmune diseases, obesity, environmental effects, and many more. Anything and everything affecting the health of the public is of interest to DPHS investigators. Through our own NIH funded research and collaborations with many other institutions across the globe, DPHS seeks to understand anything and everything relating to the health of us all.

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The New MPH Program

DPHS is excited to announce our Online MPH Generalist Program!

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