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Health Policy and Public Health Nursing

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  • UCSF
  • San Francisco
  • Health Policy
  • Public Health Nursing
  • The UCSF specialty in Health Policy and Public Health (HPPH) for registered nurses provides foundations in policy leadership and planning and evaluating public health programs in a variety of settings. 

    Students in the HPPH specialty will understand the complex interactions between health and the social determinants of health to maintain or improve the health of diverse, vulnerable, and underserved populations and communities. We are committed, as a specialty and a community of students, staff and faculty, to working to advance racial, social and environmental justice and health equity.

    Curriculum: 

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    HPPH students will take the majority of their classes together, but their coursework will diverge into two separate tracks: Health Policy (HP) or Public Health (PH). 

    This is not a clinical specialty and involves no individual direct patient care nor are students eligible for an NP or CNS license in California.

    Admissions: 

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