The Tufts School of Medicine’s Public Health programs include curricula concerned directly and indirectly with food systems. The four concentrations of study in the Public Health program are Population Health Promotion, Epidemiology-Biostatistics, Health Services Management and Policy, and Nutrition. Each of these concentrations emphasizes population and community approaches to complex public health problems. While many parts of these programs do not focus on food systems in particular, students can look to public health curricula for training in approaches to work on the future of food systems, in communication, policy, epidemiology, and nutrition.
Tufts School of Medicine and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy jointly offer a MS/MPH combined degree program. This program trains students in public health strategies, while giving them a more specialized background in an area of food systems or nutrition. More information about the MS/MPH combined degree program can be found here.
More information about Tufts Public Health programs can be found here.
If you know of any courses in the Tufts School of Medicine that are concerned primarily with food systems, please contact us!