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Sorry to bump this up. If there is anyone who has graduated from this program, can you please post here? I would like to email you to get an idea of what the modules are like and to get some extra information about the practicalities of the program. Thank you.

Hey, sorry to jump in here. I'm not going to LSHTM (though would love to do their new Global Mental Health program), but I do currently live in London. If anyone has any questions about where to live or any practical questions about the city, feel free to ask!

Tookool9: I searched around on their website and it looks like they will begin to send letters out in late April. We still have a long wait. Thanks for your responses, everyone. It is heartening to know that they are looking for well-rounded students, as I am one. I have tons of international experience, multilingualism and multidisciplinary academic interests. Whether I meet the profile they are looking for is anyone's guess, but this gives me hope! Thanks and best of luck to all of us!

Is anyone else applying to McMaster Global Health this year? I am wondering if anyone might have insights into the program and the admissions process. I submitted an application already, but i fear that I may not have enough of the health background that they are looking for. I'm also curious how many applicants they get annually. i read elsewhere that even though it is a new program, they consistently get a large number of extremely qualified applicants and that they were expanding the program, as a result. Anyone know what this number is? The program is also very unique in its teaching approach and in its offer of intercultural exchanges and experiences, so I am curious how well the field project and the class projects with students in Maastricht went. Did cultural differences in academic norms emerge? WEre there challenges in communicating with other students? If anyone anything more about the program, please post it! Likewise, if there other applicants, post here! let's support each other.

Hey, I applied to MPH programs last year and was admitted to Universite de Montreal. I decided not to go because the program wasn't exactly what I wanted, and I regret it. If anyone has any questions about interviews or anything else about UdeM's program, feel free to PM me. I'll try to answer the best I can. I also found a document about acceptance rates at UdeM. I'll see if I can find it again. They were about 25-30%. Pretty good! i guess no one in Canada is interested in studying at a french school, so application rates are low. Just a minor correction to make to Montrealers post: if you are a Canadian citizen, you can only get QC residency by living in the province for three months prior to the start of full-time studies. Otherwise, you're billed out of province tuition, which is closer to $6000/annum. Either way, it's much cheaper than a US education. This year, I'm applying to McMaster's Global Health program, U of T and McGill. My preferred program is McMaster. If anyone knows anything about this program, i would greatly appreciate advice or insight. Is anyone else here applying?

I studied psych, but I don't think that's what made it accessible, because it was taught from a quantitative perspective. I just enjoy reading social theory. It's this multi-disciplinary interest that makes public health a compelling field for me. I agree wholeheartedly with the Social Psychologist who posted above. She communicated precisely what I intended to say. I found med anth very interesting, but there were definitely moments when I thought that the methods were a little wishy washy and wondered why they don't just throw the pretense of objectivity out the window. BUT I did enjoy reading the work and I think they did raise interesting questions and ideas, many of which would have been lost in quantiative analysis due to the loss of context. That is where the benefit of studying anthropology lies for a science student-- it challenges the worldview of the hard science student and forces you to think and reevaluate your methodological position and be critical about method. Even if you don't buy into it, you will probably come out better placed to defend your methodology. Med Anth also forces you to be critical about the practice of science and how objective it really is. If you don't like theory and writing or don't want your worldview rocked too much, sociology is probably a better option.

This post is a little off-topic, but I'm not sure where else to post it. I applied to MPH programs this year and received one admission and one (probable) rejection. The program to which I was accepted is good, but it's not exactly what I want, so I'm considering taking a year to gather work/fellowship/internship experience in my area of interest to support a stronger application to my preferred program next year. No point wasting time and money in a program that isn't precisely what I want. The problem is that I'm finding it hard to find opportunities that don't already require some kind of background in the area. I'm wondering whether anyone has done this and what kinds of positions they held (you don't have to say where)? I'm most interested in global health and global mental health and I am considering the possibility of spending this year in the UK. If anyone can describe their own experiences or provide advice and suggestions, I would greatly appreciate a head's up. thanks!

Salut et félicitations! Thanks for the information and the encouragement. I guess being on a possible wait-wait list is better than being rejected off-hand!

thanks! I did send my questions to the general email earlier this week and I got a curt response advising me that decisions would be made within the next two weeks...? Of course, I know now that they have already been made since some have received a response, so I'll assume that a rejection letter is nigh.

I took a graduate seminar in med anth and I LOVED it., but if you're coming from the hard sciences it will require a total shift in thinking. It's based heavily in social theory and methods are qualitative. The way sociology is studied in North America is very positivist, with quantitative measurement. It will require less of a shift in perspective. Otherwise, the two disciplines are quite similar and for many years were tightly intertwined. I personally am of the mind that the shift of thinking required in med anth will be intellectually important because it will allow you to be more critical and creative in your interventions, but if you're someone who has trouble with theory and writing - which many hard science students do - then I would not recommend it.

Hate to sound like a broken record, but does anyone have any information on whether decisions have been made for the MPH (more specifically, health promotion w/ focus in global health)? The timeline on U of T's website suggests that written decisions will be received by June 1st. It's now May 13th and my status is still 'under review'. I have to make a decision with respect to my other offer ASAP. I see that a PhD applicant was admitted, and I see that some MPH epid applicants have been admitted, but what about health promotion? Have rejection letters for these Master's students been sent out? I was hoping not to have to hassle the (very busy) graduate coordinators, but I think I'll have to give them a call Monday. I'm pretty surprised by the length of the decision process. I appreciate that they have a lot of applicants, but most grad programs do these days, and I have friends who applied to other programs and received admissions and funding decisions within a month. I suppose this is part of the grad school experience! Waiting!

Awesome! Other future public health people! I wish I'd found this forum a few months ago. It looks like some of you guys applied to U of T's program. I'm wondering how many of you have heard something ... anything. I applied to the health promotion stream with a focus in global health (so popular), but I'm still waiting. They website suggests that we should have a written answer by June 1st, so that would mean the decision should be made by now (May 13th), and yet the website still says that my file is under review...? Do they wait until the last minute to send out the rejection letters? Or am I likely on a wait list? At this point I'm assuming that I did not get in and I am probably going to accept the offer I got from the University of Montreal, but I'm still carrying hope that I may have been accepted to U of T (the program is more appropriate to my interests and it's in English!). Also, anyone know what the acceptance rates are for U of T? Just curious. Anyone here going to U of Montreal this Fall?