Master of Public Health

Master of Public Health

Programme Summery

This is a competency-based training programme that uses high quality and sustainable training strategies meant to produce public health leaders and workers who are able to address public health challenges at the national, programme, district and community levels in Uganda and beyond.

Entry Requirements
  • A degree in health sciences e.g MBChB, BSc Nursing, B. Pharmacy, BDS, BSc Physiotherapy and BVM
  • A degree in biological sciences e.g Biology, Laboratory sciences, Nutrition
  • A degree in social science e.g Social work, Sociology, Economics, Demography and Statistics
Course Details

Year 1, Semester I Courses
S/N CODE COURSE TITLE LH TH PH GH CU
1 MPH 7105 Principles, Determinants and Promotion of Public Health 30 15 30 75 5
2 MPH 7106 Principles of Epidemiology 30 15 15 60 4
3 MPH 7107 Applied Biostatistics 20 10 30 60 4
4 MPH 7108 Occupational, Environmental and One Health 30 15 15 60 4
  Total  110 55 90 225 17

 

Year 1, Semester II Courses
S/N CODE COURSE TITLE LH TH PH GH CU
1 MPH 7205 Communicable and Non-communicable Disease Control  30 15 30 75 5
2 MPH 7206 Disease Surveillance and Response   30 15 39 75 5
3 MPH 7207 Research Methods  10 5 30 45 3
4 MPH 7208 Research Proposal Writing  25 5 30 60 4
  Total  95 40 120 225 17

 

Year 1, Semester II Courses
S/N CODE COURSE TITLE LH TH PH CH CU
1 MPH 7209 Health Economics, Leadership and Policyl  30 15 15 60 4
2 MPH 7210 Health and Health Systems  30 15 15 60 4
  Total  60 30 30 120 8

 

Year 2, Semester I Courses
S/N CODE COURSE TITLE LH TH PH CH CU
1 MPH 8105 Qualitative Research Methods  10 5 30 45 3
2 MPH 8106 Advanced Epidemiology 30 15 15 60 4
3 MPH 8107 Advanced Applied Biostatistics 10 5 30 45 3
4 MPH 8108 Ethics in Public Health and Research 30 15 15 60 4
  Total  80 40 90 210 14

 

Year 2, Semester II Courses
S/N CODE COURSE TITLE LH TH PH CH CU
1 MPH 8209 Scientific Writing and Effective Communication Skills 15 15 15 45 5
2 MPH 8210 Dissertation 10
  Total  15 15 15 45 15

Elective practicum courses(students will offer any two of these courses-10 CUs)

S/N CODE COURSE TITLE LH TH PH CH CU
1 MPH 8211 Maternal, New born, Child and Adolescent Health     30 15 30 75 5
2 MPH 8212 Innovation in Health Services 30 15 30 75 5
3 MPH 8213 Fundamentals of Nutrition  30 15 30 75 5
4 MPH 8214 Public health in emergency situations 30 15 30 75 5
5 MPH 8215 Monitoring and Evaluation 30 15 30 75 5
6 MPH 8216 Health Care Human resource management 30 15 30 75 5
7 MPH 8217 Health management information systems 30 15 30 75 5

 

Target Group

This programme is aimed at training public health specialists who can provide leadership in addressing national and regional health care challenges form the integrated community, clinical, preventive and health promotion health perspective.

Master of Public Health
Accreditation Status
Accredited
Tuition for East Africans
Ugx 3,000,000
Tuition for International Students
Ugx 4,500,000
Accreditation Details
Date of Accreditation Date Due for review Comment
13th/June/2022 June 2027 Up to date