ASPPH Core Competencies
The University of Iowa, College of Public Health uses the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) master’s degree in public health (MPH) core competencies (Version 2.3, 2006) as an educational guide.
More than 300 members of the academic and practice communities, under the jurisdiction of the ASPH Education Committee, developed the ASPH competencies. Included are 119 competencies distributed among the five core areas of public health (Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Health Policy and Management, and Social and Behavioral Sciences) and seven cross-cutting areas (Communication, Diversity and Culture, Leadership, Professionalism and Ethics, Program Planning and Assessment, Public Health Biology, and Systems Thinking).