Program Mission and Objectives
The primary mission of the program is to equip professionals with the skills and knowledge to becomes leaders in diverse fields within global public health and health care administration. We achieve this by providing our students with a deep understanding of core competencies, important issues facing the global health system, and practical experience.
Program content
The curriculum integrates a unique combination of core mandatory courses, elective courses in selected topics, leadership seminars, and a practicum. The core courses cover all the the basic disciplines in public health: epidemiology, biostatistics, social sciences, environmental health, health systems management and public health policy. The content of these allows students to develop and apply their knowledge to the elective topics, seminars and applied experience.
Specific objectives of the program
- Enable students to undertake positions public health practice in general and global health in particular.
- Foster leadership capacity based on a firm grounding in scientific methods coupled with practical tools and experience in multicultural public health contexts.
- Equip students with the skills to plan, implement, and evaluate policies and programs to address critical issues facing the public health sector..
- Provide students with an opportunity to learn about the critical role of health inequalities and the social determinants of health in population health.
- Strengthen the application of evidence-based public health decision making via knowledge mobilization. .
- Improve students’ understanding of the conditions for the needed to protect and promote health in diverse communities.
- Assist students in developing the capacity to organize, analyze, interpret and communicate knowledge in real-world settings.
- Foster personal and organizational leadership skills.
- Familiarize students with the knowledge of the international organizations involved in global public health (WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNAIDS, ECDC, CDC, Red Cross and Civil Society Organizations, CSOs).
- Enhance students’ networking capacity.
Our Values
- A new generation of multicultural public health workers
- Foundations of public health
- Promote health equity, social justice, and reductions in health disparities globally
- Health as a human right
- Global health
- Leadership in public health
- Research and service in public/global health
