Goal of the Program 

The MSc.PH program will produce competent public health graduates with advanced knowledge and practical skills to design and implement strategic public health solutions at national and global levels, conduct public health research, and train people in their respective fields of expertise.

This course is based on wide-range of pedagogical approaches including problem based learning, didactic lectures, journal clubs, online learning, seminars, workshops, etc. The students will benefit from the existing rural community-based health programs of Dhulikhel Hospital Kathmandu University Hospital; on-going research activities; and extensive national and international collaborative partnerships.

Objectives of the Program

MSc.PH in Epidemiology

Upon satisfactory completion of the MSc.PH in Epidemiology, graduates will be able to:

• Use existing data to provide background to determine priorities and formulate public health investigations,
• Create and/or use existing measurement instruments in collection of data to determine public health status and priorities and to evaluate interventions,
• Create aims and objectives to address gaps in public health knowledge and programs,
• Select appropriate study designs for interventions and investigations, considering their advantages and limitations,
• Identify risk or preventive factors that may contribute to outcomes and incorporate them into preventive strategy,
• Use software applications to collect, manage and analyse data to reveal associations and predict public health problems or solutions,
• Interpret results of an epidemiologic study, including the relation to findings from other epidemiologic studies, the potential biological and/or social mechanisms, the limitations of the study, and the public health implications,
• Critically review the scientific literature, synthesize the findings across studies, and make appropriate public health recommendations based on current knowledge,
• Write a clear description of the rationale, methods, results and interpretation of an epidemiologic investigation,
• Apply epidemiologic skills in public health settings, specifically in the formulation or application of public health programs or policies. 

MSc.PH in Global health

Upon satisfactory completion of the MSc. PH in Global Health graduates will be able to:

• Perform evidence based health promotion and disease prevention projects, management, administration, implementation through team work and participation;
• Analyse the most common causes of morbidity and mortality globally, both communicable and non-communicable, among new-borns, children, adolescents, men and women and apply this knowledge in design, implementation or evaluation of health services or programs;
• Utilize the data from major components of health information systems (e.g. surveillance, national registries, surveys and administrative data) in planning, implementing and monitoring disease status and health programs;
• Use quantitative and/or qualitative skills to assess effectiveness of health interventions in national and global setting;
• Supervise health personnel to assist local development organizations that are concerned with global health;
• Analyse important global health problems, inequity, and contribution to address the challenges including capacity building of research and education;
• Incorporate rigorous epidemiologic study designs in program evaluation and implementation science in resource-poor settings;
• Analyse how historical, political, and economic factors are shaping, maintaining and reforming health and health care systems; and
• Apply scientific methods to plan, scale up and/or evaluate intervention and to improve determinants of health and health systems. 

Total Seat: 10