JOIN THE NEXT GENERATION OF INNOVATIVE HEALTHCARE LEADERS
Flexible program options, expert faculty, an extensive alumni network, and access to Long Island's leading healthcare systems provide you with the skills needed to become a successful health professional.
- Behavioral Health: Through a combination of core knowledge and skills and applied and practical training, our programs in Marriage and Family Therapy, Mental Health Counseling, Rehabilitation Counseling, School Counseling, and Creative Arts Therapy Counseling focus on promoting individuals’ psychosocial health and development. (MA, MSEd, Advanced Certificate)
- Public Health: Build expertise in program planning, evaluation, and policy development so you can address pressing public health issues at the local, regional, and national level through positions in health systems, community organizations, government, and more. (MPH or Advanced Certificate in Foundations of Public Health)
- Health Administration: Innovative learning modules (online or in person) provide students with a foundation in the core components required of health and healthcare administrators, including the role of institutions, culture, and economics in health determination, health access, and healthcare utilization. (MHA)
- Health Informatics: Current, and aspiring, IT Professionals or Clinicians learn how to transform healthcare and improve the quality of patient care through advanced technologies. (MS)
- Health Professions Education: Health professionals, administrators in academic settings, and those preparing for leadership roles can gain the skills needed to be credential health educators who can teach using evidence-based approaches and role model best practices. (MSEd)
- Gerontology: Healthy Aging: Prepare to work with the aging population with a basic interdisciplinary background in gerontology and consists of relevant coursework in health administration, public health, counseling, and speech-language pathology. (MS or Advanced Certificate)
INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE?
Graduate students within the School of Health Sciences benefit from Hofstra's extensive network of healthcare connections, each with unique opportunities for career advancement, including cooperative education placements at more than 300 healthcare and educational facilities on Long Island, New York City, or on campus at the clinics of Hofstra’s Saltzman Community Services Center.
MORE ABOUT THE GRADUATE HEALTH PROFESSIONS PROGRAMS
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH ACCREDITATION
Hofstra University's MPH program is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). It is the only accredited program in Nassau County, Long Island, NY, and Queens County, NY.
HIGH-TECH LEARNING
Develop your skills and gain hands-on experience in the Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, which is equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation and is staffed by licensed and certified speech pathologists and audiologists.
CAREER POTENTIAL
Prepare for careers in the fast-growing health informatics field, including as a health information systems specialist, health data analyst, and manager and consultant in settings such as health in-formation technology corporations and public health agencies.
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