解决当今许多公共卫生问题的方法需要某种行为上的改变。卫生从业人员越来越多地将目光投向健康教育和健康交流领域，以寻求适应行为科学原理以解决特定健康问题的方法。该计划旨在使毕业生为在健康促进和疾病预防等具有挑战性的领域中工作做好准备，重点是健康教育计划的规划，监控和评估，社区组织，社会营销以及定性和定量的基于社区的参与式研究方法。健康教育与传播（HEDC）集中的MPH为那些有兴趣在美国和发展中国家工作的人们提供了发展这些学习经验的机会。
The solution to many of today's public health problems requires some type of behavioral change. Increasingly, health practitioners are looking to the field of health education and health communication for methods to adapt behavioral science principles to solve selected health problems. The program is designed to prepare graduates to work in the challenging fields of health promotion and disease prevention, with a focus on health education program planning, monitoring and evaluation, community organization, social marketing, and qualitative and quantitative community-based participatory research methodologies. An MPH in the Health Education and Communication (HEDC) concentration provides those interested in working within the United States, and in developing countries, the opportunity to develop these learning experiences.