Twice a year the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program in the School of Medicine's Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences hosts an Innovations Conference. These are the primary forums through which MPH students present the results of their community-based practical experiences and research projects. These experiences - collectively referred to as the Culminating Experience - are the centerpiece of the CWRU MPH program. Students apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired through their academic coursework to a problem involving the health of the community.
All MPH students complete a public health field Practicum and a multi-semester Capstone project. They present their Practicum work as a poster and their Capstone project as an oral presentation at an Innovations Conference. In this way the conference gives students the opportunity to showcase the results of their work with community partners, alumni, faculty, and other MPH students.