By Sarah Yang, UC BERKELEY
After Ravi Mehta finishes his workday as a psychologist at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, he logs onto his computer at home to attend class at the University of California, Berkeley. This week, Mehta and his fellow students will have completed the inaugural courses of the On-Campus/Online Professional Masters in Public Health Degree Program, the first ever online degree offered by UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley’s first online degree program will help address a growing shortage of healthcare professionals nationwide. Part of the impetus behind the pioneering online program is an estimated shortage of 250,000 trained public health professionals in the United States. In California alone, the shortage numbers 25,000 to 30,000, with the problem expected to worsen due to the projected retirement of 50 percent of the current public health workforce within the next five years.
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/03/masters-in-public-health-online-degree/
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