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The Department of Maternal and Child Health’s mission is broad: to improve the health of women, families and communities, with a strong commitment to address health inequities and the systems and policies that contribute to them. To this mission we bring life course, gender-based, and ecologic perspectives. Our primary focus is on the United States; however, our faculty, curriculum, and scholarly activities include countries across the development spectrum. We conduct research, education and service in partnership with community-based organizations, advocates, local, national and international government agencies. Graduates from the MCH Department are equipped with the knowledge, critical thinking, technical skills, and professional vitality essential to assessing community needs and assets, designing and evaluating programs and policies, and advocating for health equity. They are employed as managers, researchers, and advocates within private and public sector organizations in the U.S. and across the globe.
Our curriculum:
- assumes the health of women, children, families, communities, and society at large are integrally related;
- emphasizes learning by doing;
- translates research into practice; and
- launches a life-long process of self-directed learning and action.
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Boston University School of Public Health 