Program Overview
The Master in Public Health program equips professionals with comprehensive training to address global public health challenges. Through a blend of theory and practice, the program fosters critical thinking, scientific knowledge development, and research skills to enable graduates to design and manage effective health promotion, restoration, and protection interventions. It prepares professionals from diverse backgrounds, including life sciences, environmental sciences, and social sciences, for careers in public health administration, healthcare management, research, and teaching.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Master in Public Health program offers comprehensive training equipping professionals to address public health challenges globally. It aims to provide training aligned with societal changes and scientific advancements through theoretical knowledge, practical case studies, and exercises. The program's main goal is to train experts from various disciplines to tackle population health issues through promotion, protection, and restoration of community health. The curriculum fosters reflective, humanist, and critical thinking, suitable for both experienced professionals seeking specialization and recent graduates starting their careers. The syllabus emphasizes scientific knowledge development and research, generating sustainable solutions for public health professionals. The program is designed for professionals and graduates in life sciences (medicine, nursing, biology, veterinary science, etc. ), environmental sciences, statistics, economics, sociology, chemistry, and pharmacy, as well as other professionals seeking to enhance their job performance. Successful completion leads to a Master in Public Health degree awarded by the enrolled university.
Objectives:
- General Objective: To train professionals capable of addressing major population health issues by designing and managing group actions focused on health promotion, restoration, and protection, ensuring quality and efficient healthcare.
- Specific Objectives:
- Strengthen the theoretical-philosophical basis of public health, emphasizing logical thinking and scientific reasoning.
- Assess population health needs, considering social determinants and rights.
- Evaluate health systems to propose improvement strategies tailored to population needs.
- Analyze economic and social determinants and health policies and their integration into public health interventions.
- Design and evaluate evidence-based public health plans, programs, projects, and services that promote, restore, and protect population health.
- Detect health issues early and propose solutions to improve quality of life.
Outline:
The Master in Public Health program has a 90-credit structure, completed in 12 to 24 months. The curriculum is divided into four parts:
1st Part: Research on Public Health (46 Credits):
This part provides practical and theoretical training in research methods, equipping students to formulate research questions and develop effective research strategies.
- Scientific Research Methods (5 Credits): Covers methodological research design, theoretical framework development, information sourcing, academic text reading, and report writing.
- Epidemiology I (4 Credits): Provides basic epidemiology tools and their application in health studies, including internet research techniques.
- Epidemiology II (4 Credits): Focuses on qualitative research methods in health, including study design, data collection, analysis, and ethical considerations.
- Biostatistics (5 Credits): Covers statistical tools for health studies, including descriptive statistics, probability distributions, statistical inference, and regression analysis.
2nd Part: Public Health (50 Credits):
This part covers essential public health knowledge and tools for protecting and improving population health.
- Public Health’s Contextualization (4 Credits): Analyzes the historical evolution of medicine and public health, organizational structures, and future perspectives.
- General Bioethics (4 Credits): Examines bioethics from its origins to its current multidisciplinary approach.
- Social Determinants in Health (4 Credits): Analyzes health determinants, inequalities, and strategies for reducing disparities.
- Healthcare Systems (4 Credits): Covers health policies, systems, primary healthcare, and system diagnosis.
- Management of Health Services (5 Credits): Covers management concepts, technical aspects, and system implementation for improved management.
- Demographics and Public Health (4 Credits): Covers demographic analysis, indicators, and population health status assessment.
- Health Economy (4 Credits): Covers macroeconomic factors influencing health, healthcare expenditure, and funding aspects.
- Health-Disease Process and Equity (5 Credits): Analyzes health conceptions, illness experiences, and health practices, considering social inequalities.
- Health and Social Protection Policies (5 Credits): Reviews the role of international bodies in social policy, economic and political determinants, and intervention mechanisms.
- Public Health’s Monitoring (5 Credits): Covers designing and implementing public health information systems and data analysis.
- Public Health’s Programs Design and Evaluation (4 Credits): Covers needs assessment, program planning, design, and evaluation methodologies.
- Seminar: Public Health (2 Credits): Applies learned knowledge to real or simulated public health scenarios.
3rd Part: Elective Module (22 Credits):
Students choose one elective module:
- Elective 1: Environmental Health (17 Credits): Covers polluting agents, environmental risks, and environmental toxicology.
- Elective 2: Community Nutrition (17 Credits): Covers public health nutrition, program management, and nutrition communication.
- Elective 3: Occupational Health (17 Credits): Covers occupational medicine, toxicology, and risk prevention.
Teaching:
The program uses a blended learning methodology integrating knowledge and skills acquisition through integrative exercises and project practices. The teaching staff includes a diverse group of professors and authors with expertise in various fields related to public health, including bioethics, epidemiology, biostatistics, health economics, and health management. The list of faculty members is extensive and includes doctors, PhD candidates, and Masters-level professionals from various universities and institutions.
Careers:
Graduates can work in:
- Public Health Administration
- Health Administration in Private Entities
- Social and Health Services Management
- Research in Public and Private Entities
- Teaching
Other:
FUNIBER offers training scholarships. The program's content may be subject to minor modifications based on updates and improvements. The program is offered online.
