Programme Structure The entire MPH-HE programme encompasses three parts of 20 credits (EC) each: Core Course, Specialisation Courses, and Thesis.
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Core Course in Public Health and Health Equity The Core Course consists of the following modules, which are outlined in detail elsewhere in this brochure: • Equity and Global Health Concerns • Research Methods • Health Systems and Policy Making • Learning and Communication Skills and Professional Development
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Specialisation Courses After the Core Course, you can choose between several options. You will follow three ‘specialisation courses’ followed by three ‘advanced specialisation courses’. The three initial specialisation courses are the same for all full-time specialisation tracks (Epidemiology, Health Systems and Policy, and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights): • Health Planning and Programming • Qualitative Health Systems Research • Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning The tailor-made track (full-time) and the Selected Challenges and Solutions in Public Health track (part-time) allow for a flexible choice of specialisation courses. All tracks have their specific ‘advanced specialisation courses’, presented below.
Health Systems and Policy Track This track will enable you to analyse complexities in health systems and address the growing interconnectedness of national and international health policies, governance, and financing, as well as challenges around human resources for health highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, in recognition of post-colonial legacies, there is growing emphasis on organising people-centred and community-based responses to solving complex public health problems systematically and strategically. You will learn to better address these issues, providing evidence-based public health solutions for continuously improving the quality and responsiveness of health services, using an equal partnerships approach. Advanced specialisation courses: • Human Resources for Health • Health Promotion and Disease Control • Health Policy and Financing
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Track Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are essential to fulfilling people’s rights to health and well-being, as well as to advance the related social development goals. Indeed, more and more national, 8
