Accreditation

The College of Public Health is currently not accredited. Once prerequisites for accreditation are in place, the college will move ahead to apply for accreditation as a college of public health. Such accreditation, once received, will demonstrate the college has met the highest standards of education, research and service in public health in the country today.

The College of Public Health was created at the University of Nebraska Medical Center to complete the assets the academic medical center needs to accomplish its mission of premier education, research, patient care and outreach. The College of Public Health, the first college to be created on campus since 1968, adds an essential element to that mission, namely population science-based techniques that improve the health of the population of Nebraska, the region and beyond.

Population science-based approaches complement and complete the existing high quality individual patient approaches already provided by the Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy and the School of Allied Health on campus.

The addition of a fully operating College of Public Health places UNMC on the short list of academic health centers that have a full complement of health professions and health sciences.

Once the college meets all prerequisites to seek accreditation it will move forward to become a fully accredited College of Public Health offering master level and PhD level degrees in public health, preparing its graduates to become researchers and practitioners in public health.

UNMC does participate in the UNMC/UNO Master of Public Health (MPH) program, a collaboration between the Omaha and Medical Center campuses of the University of Nebraska. The UNMC/UNO Master of Public Health program is accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH). For more information about the UNMC/UNO Master of Public Health program, please visit their Web site at http://www.unmc.edu/mph.