Pre-Orientation Requirements

Master of Public Health Program
The following requirements are for the MPH program and must be completed by the date of your orientation unless otherwise specified.

1. Complete any outstanding conditions outlined in your Letter of Admission.

2. Each MPH student is required to take a Math Placement Test to ensure that students are ready for biostatistics. You will receive further information as part of your eWelcome packet as Orientation approaches. If you'd like a refresher before taking the actual exam, click on the following link, http://assess.math.sunysb.edu/ and select the 2nd bullet item, which offers practice questions.

3. Complete the online Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) training. This training must be completed before the CITI Protection of Human Subjects training (see below) is completed. To complete this training, follow the instructions under “#2: HIPAA in Research Training” at this link: http://www.stonybrook.edu/research/orc/human-subjects.shtml#training-tab.  
 
The HIPAA training requirement is satisfied by reading the training materials on this site and sending an e-mail to Mary Ellen Herz (mherz@notes.cc.sunysb.edu). The email should be copied to, or printed and provided to, Eileen Zappia (GPPH Staff member) at Orientation. (Eileen’s email address is Eileen.Zappia@stonybrookmedicine.edu.)

4. Complete the online Protection of Human Subject training offered by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) at: http://www.citiprogram.org. You will be given more detailed instructions as Orientation approaches.

5. Complete the Health Form and send to Student Health Services.

(You can download the form here: http://www.stonybrook.edu/hscstudents/docs/HealthForm.pdf)

5. Complete the MPH Student Profile. To download the document, click here.

6. Complete the online Orientation Competency Assessment Survey. Once admitted you will receive the link to the survey as part of your eWelcome Packet.

If you have any questions about these requirements please contact Eileen Zappia via email at eilieen.zappia@stonybrook.edu