耶鲁大学护理学院和耶鲁大学公共卫生学院（YSPH）提供护理和公共卫生联合学位课程。此选项特别针对希望在各种公共卫生保健系统中进行直接实践，规划和决策的个人。联合学位课程需要三年（护理专业研究生入学专业的学生为四年），并授予护理科学硕士（MSN）和公共卫生硕士（MPH）。入学决定由YSPH和YSN独立做出。学生必须同时向两所学校申请，申请人必须在每份申请表上注明他们正在申请联合学位课程。该联合学位课程不适用于已注册或申请护士-助产士专业的YSN学生。
Recognizing the relationship between nursing and public health, the Yale School of Nursing (YSN) and the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) offer a joint degree program in nursing and public health. This option is especially oriented to individuals who wish to combine careers in advanced nursing practice and public health that might involve direct practice, planning, and policy-making in a variety of health care systems in the public health sector. This joint degree option requires three years (four years for students in the Graduate Entry Pre-Specialty in Nursing (GEPN) and awards a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) and a Master of Public Health (MPH). A joint degree is more than simply a list of courses taken at both Schools. It is an integrated educational program designed to achieve a combination of the two programs in a way that is complementary to both, while protecting the integrity of each separate program. YSN students in any of the clinical specialties except for Nurse Midwifery/WHNP (this program is not recommended for Nurse Midwifery/WHNP students due to competing scheduling demands) may apply for the joint degree program. Study in one of the following YSPH departments is most appropriate for the joint MSN/MPH degree: Chronic Disease Epidemiology (CDE), Health Policy (HP), or Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS). YSPH students in the Health Care Management program are not eligible for the joint MSN/MPH program.