Dual Degree in City Planning and Public Health
UC Berkeley's Departments of City Planning and Public Health offer a Dual Degree program allowing students to earn a Masters in Public Health and a Masters in City Planning in 3 years. Berkeley's concurrent program in city 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 concurrent 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, as well as the planners and policies that shape it, influences many aspects of health and well-being: what people eat, the air they breathe and the water they drink, where (or if) they work, the housing that shelters them, where they go for health care, the danger they encounter on the street, who is available for emotional and financial support, and how political power is distributed and public resources allocated.
Find out more about the program at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design website: Master of City Planning/Master of Public Health
Find out more about the program at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design website: Master of City Planning/Master of Public Health