Advanced Master in Public Health Methodology (MPHM) ULB - Brussels

Course Content
The objective of this Advanced Master in Public Health Methodology is to provide a large degree of autonomy in the use of public health methods. The programme is addressed to public health professionals, who work at different levels of the health system, with a view to providing them with a specific skills needed for health system management and development of analytical and specialized approaches to strengthen their action strategies (operational research, health planning, health strategies,...

Learning objectives, training objectives
The targeted skills aim at the achievement of an overall objective which is to: "ensure methodological approaches and public health decision-makings, consistent with the needs of people, communities and individuals."

Target Audience
This Advanced Master is open to a wide range of practitioners : public health executives, medical doctors, health economists, research workers in the biomedical sector, social sciences professionals, etc.

Typical postgraduate careers and job opportunities
National and international health agencies, NGOs, health ministries (programme coordinator...), community and hospital medicine (public health physician, district officer), University (researcher), PhD preparation...

Qualifications
This course is an Advanced Master degree which means a master subsequent to a previous master. The applicants must possess a diploma at least equivalent to a master degree (5 years of of university education).

Local Organizer
Inter-university programme: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Université Catholique de Louvain and Université de Mons

Notes
To be admitted, applicants must bear a 2nd cycle degree considered equivalent to 300 credits (minimum 5 years of study) by the Jury.

For EU students : from april to the end of september For non-EU students : from mid february to the end of april https://www.ulb.ac.be/facs/esp/registration.html

Ms. Professor Christelle Senterre