Fundación Universitaria Del Área Andina
MASTER IN EPIDEMIOLOGY
Pereira, Colombia
Master degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The University Foundation of the Andean Area (AREANDINA) offers a Master in Epidemiology that trains health professionals to analyze population health, implement epidemiological surveillance and conduct research. The programme gives conceptual and technological tools for evidence-based decision-making amid sociodemographic and migratory changes, aiming to strengthen public policy and response capacity. Keywords: epidemiology, public health, surveillance.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work in epidemiology units, public health agencies, surveillance centers, policy advisory roles, programme evaluation; roles include epidemiologist, surveillance officer, public health analyst and policy advisor. You’ll apply surveillance, data analysis and research skills to support clinical, community and government decision-making.
The world is not prepared to face a pandemic, and beyond knowing if it will happen or not, it is a question of when it will happen. For this reason, the role that epidemiologists play is so important within the health unit and at certain government levels and public policy generation, because they have disciplinary information that allows them to observe health problems from a population and circumstantial perspective, which gives them a broad understanding of the issues that affect the world.
The profound sociodemographic and migratory changes make greater academic training necessary; At AREANDINA we take on the challenge of improving the profile of professionals in the health sector and for this, the master's degree in Epidemiology provides conceptual and technological tools that allow the analysis of evidence for decision-making on health problems, at an individual and collective level, based on of the foundations of epidemiological surveillance and research, with the aim of optimizing public policies to have a better response capacity.
