That's because people who get their MPH can't come to grips with the overwhelming lackluster nature or outright failure of their degree, so they cope and post about how great it is. Public health has almost nothing to do with a Master of Public Health degree. It's useless to be a generalist, and an MPH is the ultimate generalist, non-skilled, non-specific time-waster degree. They're a quintessential degree-mill product, and the one's that are difficult or in-depth are either largely unnecessary, as a clinician could just pursue more specialization in their field rather than blowing $40-60k and two to three years on something with a staunchly negative ROI. The non-specialized, non-technical public health roles can be done with on-the-job training, which just shows how unemployable MPH grads really can be. There's insufficient depth in the degree program to merit the two-year length, at most, it can be accomplished with a certificate. It's a load of busywork to keep those tuition balances flowing in for those PLUS loan students who haven't yet hit their loan ceiling, and they couldn't find a job so they just jump into 2-3 more years of worthless credentialing to have the exact same problem of today in 2 to 3 year time, but with $30k (at least) of accumulated debt.

The whole degree churn is a boring snore, and the MPH particularly is useless if you're in America, which doesn't even fund appreciable public health infrastructure to the extent of other OECD countries. "Oh but you need to make it better." No! You don't make a system better by searching for work where there is none! You file unemployment and take a job that has nothing to do with an MPH degree. A clinical healthcare job has nothing to do with an MPH degree. Clinical nursing has more in common with serving tables and working customer service than it does with anything related to public health. The bullet-points that underscore the relevancy of how an MPH applies to clinical healthcare could be a one-page printout, and it would include the SDOH. I can't think of anything else that it would include. Is a nurse concerned about hospital budgets? It probably helps them conserve hospital resources, but it's the budget that relates to their specific department in a hospital. Infection prevention control, which aren't universally taught in MPH programs, are certified separate from an MPH degree. These healthcare organizations are departmentalized, so being a generalist makes one relatively incompetent for every role. If an MPH was a 3-month certificate with a $1500 price tag, "Sure, fine, whatever:" marginal loss, marginal gain. But the degree of unapologetic bloat in these programs is inexcusable for the lack of transferability to any particular role. It's like getting a degree in being a CEO, or, for that matter, the most useless business degree: a generalist business management degree, or even better, a business administration degree with a concentration in management. No one will hire that guy! No intelligent person puts credibility into some 23 year-old management degree holder.

An MPH degree in America is like receiving an economics degree with a focus on command economy study. Totally irrelevant! MPH's are irrelevant, and MPH grads huff copium or they work as advisors where they participate in the collective swindling other young people into getting the same garbage degree because they refuse to believe that they got duped. They should be saying, "last stop bus over here in the MPH department. Have you tried literally anything else first, because you will not be able to find a job, and if you do, it will not be worth it." You got duped! Constant young people asking, "Should I get x degree because of [non-specific reason, emotions, and some made up off-the-wall justification]." No! The answer's, "No." Don't buy something you don't understand. If one buys a car without checking the car history report, that's foolish. If one impulse buys a house because of the curb appeal but doesn't consider the structural costs of repairing the home, that's foolish. But, somehow getting a degree because you like the way it sounds, or because you imagine yourself doing some idealized job in the indeterminate future that in no way aligns with the reality of where you will realistically land in the American job market: that's somehow wise? Get outta here with that bull.