MS Community Health and Social Justice

Graduates will be equipped to address the impacts of structural and institutional racism, and other forms of discrimination which have produced inequities in the United States putting into practice theories, strategies, and tools to promote community health and social justice such as creating, implementing, and evaluating culturally relevant health interventions, which include educational resources, programs, and communication campaigns; using strengths-based approaches that leverage the wisdom and power of groups most affected by exclusionary and oppressive systems; applying decolonizing methods that attempt to undo the harmful  political, economic, and historical effects of colonialism and to restore self-government and self-determination, rights, and sovereignty to indigenous and Native communities; advocating for more fair and  just laws that improve health and human rights; leading and managing organizations and agencies to bring about systems-level change; using evidence-based approaches to create and determine innovative solutions to pressing community health challenges.