CHPR is proud to congratulate the cohort for 2024-2025, pictured above at New Graduate Student Orientation (NGSO) on September 20, 2024, as they confer their MS degrees. This year's cohort was comprised of students from 14 different countries, 40+ undergraduate institutions, 15% first gen, and 38% identifying as under-represented minority.
The wide range of life experiences of the CHPR program and student body is highlighted in the Department of Medicine's 2021 Annual Report, Meeting the Moment.
CHPR's home is within the Stanford Prevention Research Center, a research division in Stanford’s Department of Medicine. SPRC’s mission is to enhance personal and population health through innovative, evidence-based strategies in research, education, and community outreach and to train the next generation of prevention researchers.
The CHPR program recognizes that the Supreme Court issued a ruling in June 2023 about the consideration of certain types of demographic information as part of an admission review. All applications submitted during upcoming application cycles will be reviewed in conformance with that decision.
The CHPR program welcomes graduate applications from individuals with a broad range of life experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds who would contribute to our community of scholars. The review process is holistic and individualized, considering each applicant's academic record and accomplishments, letters of recommendation, prior research experience, and admissions essays to understand how an applicant's life experiences have shaped their past and potential contributions to their field and how they might enrich the learning community at Stanford. CHPR invites applicants to share the lived experiences and demonstrated values that have shaped their lives and world views as scholars and would help them to make a distinctive contribution to CHPR.
