• Course Title : Master In Public Health (MPH)
• Category/Level : Masters
• Course Duration (months) : 18 months
• Cost Range (NPR) : NA
• Affiliated to : Purbanchal University

Course Description:

Master of Public Health (MPH)

Public Health academia is growing concern of world communities. The public health as an independent discipline covers wider range of preventive, promotive, rehabilitative and re-integrative health. The relationship of social, economical and technological development with diseases proved in the overall development processes. Similarly, triple burden of disease and their management encouraged public health scientists to work for overall development of public health sector.

Prevention and control of diseases challenging to the political commitment, people participation, inter-sectoral coordination and priority based resource mobilization and uses. Public Health word forces should be at the forefront with key personnel working together in a wide range of government and non-governmental organizations. Public health viewed as one of the important and effective approach to achieve national development goals. The development of public health profession including training, education, continuous education and research activities are still inadequate to address those challenges of public health in Nepal. This MPH curriculum is expected to tracks public health professionals to take organizational leadership for assuring better health management and improving quality of life of the people through better quality health service delivery. This can be achieved through an updated contemporary community need based curricula which can address the real needs of modern public health issues and appropriate public health management in diverse settings. This curriculum has been structured to cope with diversity of changing demands of public health problems. Besides the core courses, the curriculum provides opportunities for the students to purse individual interest through broad based choice of effective subjects.

Mission

To provide complete guide as a cornerstone that directs to prepare competent public health managers for the improvement and enhancement of equality health services.

In order to develop public health managers/experts the curriculum provides knowledge and skills to a wide range of public health issues through organized, interdisciplinary efforts in term on physical, mental, socio behavioral and environmental health concerns, health promotion and diseases prevention, technologies, planning implementing and evaluating health programs. Graduate will be acquire the knowledge of formulating health policies in collaboration with community and government leaders, developing leadership skills for organization and human resource management and contributing health research for innovation and prioritizing public health issues.

Specific Objectives

• Develop knowledge on public health programs, problems and issues.
• Develop practical knowledge on management of health services.
• Enhance the bio-statistical knowledge
• Promote skills in conducting research
• Develop capacities in evaluating the public health programs.
• Promote the knowledge on international health issues and their implications.
• To trained the students in problem solving approaches
• Promote self centered learning approach.
• Problem based / participatory learning
• Teachers as a facilitator
• Teachers and students are treated with dignity and respects
• Coordination and team spirit
• Active learning interaction
• Self-centered learning
• Fair judgment
• Measuring learning through the application
• Adapting adult learning
• Critical thinking
• Ensure that faculty experts are competent in their professionalism
• Recruiting quality students
• Adequate financial support
• Adequate physical facilities
• Adequate teaching learning materials/instruments and equipment
• Clear policy guidelines with supportive management team.

The duration of the course is 18 months .Core subjects of the course are included in the first semester followed by core subjects and elective subjects in the second semester and dissertation work in the last six month period of the third semester.