UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY
MASTER OF CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING (MCP) + MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH (MPH)
CONCURRENT DEGREE PROGRAM
PURPOSE
The UC Berkeley concurrent degree program trains professionals to engage in transdisciplinary research, practice, and advocacy at the intersection of design professions, public health, and public policy. Students and alumni work to promote healthier cities and regions, placing an emphasis on strategies to address persistent health inequities in urban areas and their surrounding regions.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Berkeley's concurrent program in city and regional planning and public health is one of the oldest such programs in the United States. Building on the leadership and vision of program founders such as public health professors Leonard Duhl and Trevor Hancock and architecture professor Rosyln Lindheim, the MCP+MPH program grapples with understanding how urbanization and characteristics of urban life influence well-being, and what practices and policies can improve the lives of the majority of the world's population now living in cities. The urban environment - and the planners and policies who shape it - influence many systems and aspects of daily life that impact health and well-being, including: food environments, air and water quality, (un)employment, housing, transportation, health care, public safety, social networks, financial security, and the distribution of political power and public resources. Students combine work within one of four Public Health departments: Health and Social Behavior; Health Policy and Management; Environmental Health Sciences; Epidemiology/Biostatistics and one of four degree concentrations in City and Regional Planning: Environmental Planning and Healthy Cities; Housing, Community , and Economic Development; Transportation Policy and Planning; Urban Design.
While the fields of modern city planning and public health emerged together in the 19th century to address urban inequities and infectious diseases, they were largely disconnected for much of the 20th century. In the 21st century, planning and public health are reconnecting to address the new health challenges of urbanization and globalization — from racial and ethnic health inequities to land use sprawl to providing basic services to the millions of urban poor around the world living in informal slum settlements. How to reconnect the fields of planning and public health to address these and other urban health challenges is the focus of this program.
FACULTY
Core faculty include:
The UC Berkeley concurrent degree program trains professionals to engage in transdisciplinary research, practice, and advocacy at the intersection of design professions, public health, and public policy. Students and alumni work to promote healthier cities and regions, placing an emphasis on strategies to address persistent health inequities in urban areas and their surrounding regions.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Berkeley's concurrent program in city and regional planning and public health is one of the oldest such programs in the United States. Building on the leadership and vision of program founders such as public health professors Leonard Duhl and Trevor Hancock and architecture professor Rosyln Lindheim, the MCP+MPH program grapples with understanding how urbanization and characteristics of urban life influence well-being, and what practices and policies can improve the lives of the majority of the world's population now living in cities. The urban environment - and the planners and policies who shape it - influence many systems and aspects of daily life that impact health and well-being, including: food environments, air and water quality, (un)employment, housing, transportation, health care, public safety, social networks, financial security, and the distribution of political power and public resources. Students combine work within one of four Public Health departments: Health and Social Behavior; Health Policy and Management; Environmental Health Sciences; Epidemiology/Biostatistics and one of four degree concentrations in City and Regional Planning: Environmental Planning and Healthy Cities; Housing, Community , and Economic Development; Transportation Policy and Planning; Urban Design.
While the fields of modern city planning and public health emerged together in the 19th century to address urban inequities and infectious diseases, they were largely disconnected for much of the 20th century. In the 21st century, planning and public health are reconnecting to address the new health challenges of urbanization and globalization — from racial and ethnic health inequities to land use sprawl to providing basic services to the millions of urban poor around the world living in informal slum settlements. How to reconnect the fields of planning and public health to address these and other urban health challenges is the focus of this program.
FACULTY
Core faculty include:
- Jason Corburn, Professor of City and Regional Planning
- William Satariano, Professor of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Malo André Hutson, Professor of City and Regional Planning
- Rachel Morello-Frosch, Professor of Public Health and Environmental Science, Policy & Management
- Mahasin Mujahid, Professor of Epidemiology
- Amani Nuru-Jeter, Professor of Community Health Sciences and Epidemiology
For more information about the MCP+MPH concurrent degree program, review the concurrent degree program pages for the School of Public Health and College of Environmental Design.
