The Master of Population Health Sciences degree is designed to prepare current and aspiring public health leaders with the skills and knowledge needed to impact the health outcomes for patient populations. Through this program you will explore key public health issues in epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical effectiveness and outcome research.
Learn from our highly ranked faculty known for patient care and population health excellence in classes customized for clinicians while maximizing your research productivity by using your current, ongoing research projects for course assignments. With no thesis requirement, the MPHS degree can be obtained in as few as 10 months, with part-time study options available.
Clinical outcomes research training for physicians & clinical doctorates
Learn about the MD/MPHS degree
The MD/MPHS program allows medical students to add clinical research methods training to their medical school experience. Students in our program work on a research project and use that project to complete MPHS coursework in 10 months, creating the ideal combination of didactic training and hands-on experience. MPHS leadership can help you find a research project or lab that fits your goals and interests.
Accelerate your academic research career
Broaden your expertise from how to conduct a single research project to the all-important why questions in clinical and population health research methodology and principles — the knowledge base needed for a career as a physician-researcher.
Boost your research quality & productivity
Learn in classes customized for clinicians and taught by faculty at a top medical institution renowned for teaching, patient care and cutting-edge research. Maximize your research productivity by using your current, ongoing research projects for course assignments. With no thesis requirement, the MPHS degree can be obtained in as few as 10 months, with part-time study options available.
Improve patient & population health
Gain a strong foundation in leading, designing and applying study results. We train physicians, clinical doctorates and medical students from all medical specialties using a population health research curriculum that covers: clinical epidemiology, biostatistics, comparative effectiveness research, clinical outcomes, randomized controlled trials and more.
Alumni spotlights
Jennifer Yu, MD/MPHS ‘20, named Program Director for the Washington University General Surgery Residency beginning July 2024. Yu earned a bachelor’s degree and medical degree from WashU. Yu received the 2020 Keith D. Amos Medical Award, 2020-21 Gregario A. Sicard Teaching Fellow Award and multiple Department of Surgery Teaching Awards as a trainee and faculty member.
William Chapman Jr, MD/MPHS ‘18, joins the section of Colon and Rectal Surgery as an Assistant Professor of Surgery. Chapman earned his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington DC in 2015, the MPHS degree in 2018, and completed General Surgery Residency in 2022. He has also completed a colon and rectal fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.