H. A. Barcelo Foundation | Fundacion
Master in Public Health
La Rioja, Argentina
Master degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Master in Public Health at Fundación Barceló trains leaders in health sciences grounded in democracy, humanism, ethics. From early courses students engage theory and practice, develop critical thinking, and study epidemiology, health systems, bioethics, multiculturalism, health technology. Faculty use tutorial methods, research participation, and international exchange to prepare graduates for complex, interdisciplinary public health roles.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work across health service administration, policy, epidemiology, research, and global health. Typical roles include health services manager, public health analyst, epidemiologist, policy advisor, healthcare program coordinator, and researcher. Skills support employment in hospitals, public agencies, NGOs, institutes, and organizations.
Competences and objectives
Upon completion of the Master in Public Health, the graduate will have:
Conditions to recognize diverse tendencies of sanitary organization, new epidemiological approaches, and technological innovations. Tools to identify local, regional and international health systems in their socio-political features, and bioethical aspects —human rights, multiculturalism— that constitute essential components of modern societies. Qualification for job placement in health service organizations and skills to address the broad spectrum of activities in the field of administration of these services and the health of society in general. Ability to produce relevant disciplinary knowledge, with a high academic, theoretical, and scientific level.
