Graduate Public Health Education

The Essential Public Health series is closely tied to the Association of Schools of Public Health's MPH core disciplinary and cross-cutting competencies that form the basis for the certifying examination in public health of the National Board of Public Health Examiners. The following current and forthcoming books in the series address these graduate level core competencies:

Current titles in the Essential Public Health Series

• Essentials of Health Policy and Law plus Reader – Teitelbaum and Wilensky
• Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health – plus Workbook – Sullivan
• Essentials of Environmental Health – Friis
• Essentials of Health Behavior plus Reader – Edberg
• Essentials of Management and Leadership in Public Health – Burke and Friedman
• Essentials of Health Economics – Dewar
• Essentials of Public Health Biology – Battle
• Case Studies in Global Health: Millions Saved – Levine
• Essentials of Global Community Health – Gofin and Gofin
• Essentials of Public Health Communication – Parvanta

Forthcoming books in the Essential Public Health series

• Essential Case Studies in Public Health: Putting Public Health into Practice – Hunting and Gleason
• Essentials of Public Health Preparedness – Rebecca Katz
• Essentials of Health Planning and Evaluation – McDonnell
• Essentials of Health, Culture and Diversity – Edberg
• Essentials of Public Health Ethics – Bernheim and Childress
• Essentials of Evidence-based Public Health – Riegelman

For more information about any of these titles, go to The Series page.