Masters in Public Health & Social Work

Official transcripts from all college-level institution attended sent directly to SOPHAS.

Three letters of recommendation from people familiar with your academic experience and potential for graduate work in public health

Include in your resume: Dates and information related to your undergraduate and any graduate level education. Your professional work history. Include social work, public health, and other work, and any unpaid service. Experiences such as field placements, internships, volunteer work, community engagement, social justice activities, or research.

Describe an experience experience you have had in working across lines of diversity or in overcoming adversity. How has this experience informed your interest in pursuing a coordinated degree in public health and social work? What social, public health or societal problem do you care most about and what would you propose the social work and public health fields do to address this problem? Why and how do you think the coordinated MPH/MSW degree program best suits your career and professional goals? Optional – What else would you like for us to know about you? In this section, other students have talked about speaking a second language, when they first came to the U.S., being a first generation college student, international experiences (e.g. study abroad, travel in other countries), and/or life experiences that have influenced their choice of social work and/or public health as a career.