Facilities and Resources

Opportunities to apply your skills

Great facilities and broad clinical training set us apart.

As you complete your degree, you’ll gain experience in athletic, nutrition and health care settings.

Explore what awaits you.

Our home: Kampeter Hall

Exterior of Professional Building from east side.You can find us in Ann Kampeter Health Sciences Hall, previously named the Professional Building.

Through a seven-figure donation, this place has a new look.

Inside Kampeter Hall are top-of-the-line equipment and learning spaces.

Come discover how Missouri State is investing in the future of health care.

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Other academic facilities

Athletic facilities

Dietetics

A dietetics professor speaking to a group of students in a kitchen lab in Kampeter.

Dietitians must have expertise in kitchen design, equipment and general operations.

Our newly renovated kitchen covers these vital topics in various courses:

  • DTN 330 Food Prep
  • DTN 331 Food Science
  • DTN 437 Quantity Foods

Other features include:

  • A commercial kitchen for special course projects such as food demos.
  • A computer lab and workroom specifically set up for dietetics students.

The computers have the necessary software and tutorials to help you complete your nutrition course work.

Body Composition Laboratory

This unique lab scans for bone density and total body fat.

Explore the Body Composition Laboratory

Master of Public Health facilities

  • Public health lab

    The new public health laboratory at Missouri State currently consists of lab counters, incubators, a freezer and limited computer support.

  • Identification of different species of disease causing vector

    To date the lab has been used primarily in support of a contract from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to assess vector-borne disease risks in the state.

  • Miscroscopic view of a mosquito

    Although the focus to date has been on mosquitoes, the laboratory is branching out to help the state health department in assessing the risk of tick-borne diseases and in designing methods to reduce disease risk.

  • A catalogue of disease causing vector

    Several MPH students have worked during the summer as student workers to collect, identify and curate the mosquitoes. They have monitored the geographic spread of one known vector of Zika virus and have documented the presence of an invasive species.

  • Trapping the vectors

    The combination of field collection, lab work, and epidemiology provides several MPH students at MSU with an opportunity to develop a broad range of public health skills as well as opportunities to publish.

Expanding your education

The Master of Public Health program is housed in the Physical Therapy building on the Missouri State campus. Associated with the College of Health and Human Services, this building provides offices and classrooms for the program. Parking is located directly beside the Physical Therapy building, and a covered parking garage is available for students across the street.

Students may also use the open-access computer lab located in the Professional Building nearby.

Community connections

Because the ultimate goal of public health is to better the health of our communities, the field of public health relies on community connections, whether through organizational ties, health education initiatives or health campaigns. Currently, the University is developing collaborative partnerships:

Through field experiences, you will experience public health firsthand as a practitioner. Our students are placed in a number of nonprofit and governmental agencies for a semester.

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University institutes

Also associated with the University are two research and education institutes that address public health and social issues. These institutes often have opportunities for you, as a student, to participate in research and health policy evaluation and planning.

The Ozarks Public Health Institute (OPHI) addresses public health issues through collaboration with local community organizations. OPHI implements education, training, public service and research programs. It is also the sponsoring unit for SMASH, a student group dedicated to educating their peers about the perils of smoking.