University of Michigan

Taubman College of Urban Planning

Joint Degree in Planning and Public Health

M.U.P/M.P.H Dual Degree

The Planning/Public Health Graduate Dual Degree is a Student Initiated Dual Degree. Students may wish to go into work to promote health through the improvement of the places where people live in a wide range of ways. For example, to name just a few of the ways that public health and urban planning intersect, students may be interested in the provision of safer shelter, in community-based initiatives for water supply and waste disposal systems, in reducing sprawl development and the traffic congestion that accompanies it, in planning for parks and recreation that offer more fitness opportunities, in implementing truck routing around low-income neighborhoods to reduce air pollution and increase pedestrian safety. Students may want to work for a nonprofit in a big city, for a planning department or a public health department, for a regional rural services agency, or for an NGO or a community-based initiative in a developing country.