Food, Nutrition and Population Health "4+1"
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Program Format
Overview
The 4+1 program is an accelerated Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program open to undergraduate declared Public Health majors at UC Berkeley. There are three participating programs within the school aligned with the 4+1 program and each program has specific requirements to apply.
Epidemiology/Biostatistics (Epi/Bio)
Food, Nutrition, and Population Health (FNPH)
Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health (MCAH)
The FNPH program trains future leaders in food and nutrition practice, policy and research to identify emerging nutrition and food-systems challenges and solutions and evaluate their impact. FNPH aims to address historical and current inequities in nutrition and food systems, with an emphasis on systems-level change. Acknowledging the climate crisis, we look for ways to enhance resiliency in food systems and move towards greater food sovereignty.
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Curriculum
The 4+1 MPH consists of 42 units. The FNPH program is structured to provide students with the skills needed to: contribute to the scientific understanding of public health nutrition challenges; create healthy and equitable food systems; identify and advocate for effective food and nutrition policies; plan, implement, and evaluate programs; and conduct implementation research to improve nutrition and health for communities and populations. We seek to train people who want to lead at the local, state, national, and global levels in improving food systems, nutrition and health.
The required capstone is an Integrative Learning Experience course and presentation.
Employment
The MPH in FNPH prepares students for work in state or local government or nonprofit health agencies, or other community, policy development or research organizations that deal with health and nutrition policy and program design, implementation, and evaluation. FNPH graduates have held positions at a variety of organizations, including: California Food Policy Advocates, USDA, Policy Link, Prevention Institute, Nutrition Policy Institute, UCSF, Berkeley Media Studies Group, American Heart Association, University of California Cooperative Extension, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, and Public Health Advocates.