 Public Health is the art and science of keeping communities and populations healthy. The goals of the online Master of Public Health program here at Fairfield are to recruit and retain a diverse student body who will then go out and enter the public health workforce. It's very common for students who are entering a graduate public health program to be a little bit unsure of what their interest really is. One of the benefits of going through a generalist Master of Public Health program is that you leave really with the depth and breadth of what public health is and how it works. All of our faculty have earned their terminal degree in their respective discipline. We are practitioner faculty, meaning we have experience in the real world conducting practice. All of our classes are offered in asynchronous format. That means there's no required live session. You don't have to log on a certain time of day or evening or weekend. Our online MPH program includes both an applied learning experience and an integrative learning experience. The applied learning experience is our fieldwork where students are placed in a public health agency with a community mentor and really find out what it's like doing public health work on the ground. Our integrative learning experience is a two-course capstone project where students are working one-on-one with a faculty mentor to develop their own project that can be a program or evaluation plan or research project, a health policy analysis, something that they can see through from start to finish. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects larger than average growth, not only in the public health field but particularly in the areas of health education, epidemiology and biostatistics. There not only is a need today but there will be a need tomorrow for people with formal education and training in public health. The time to study public health is now.