7 Medicine and Health Sciences Masters Degree Programs in Kazakhstan

The two-year Master of Public Health (MPH) degree offered in the Nazarbayev University School of Medicine is based on the highest international standards. As an offering of the School of Medicine, we provide additional highly-qualified faculty, and teaching and research resources not found in MPH programs outside of medical schools.

This program aims to train competent public health professionals, public health leaders with strategic, analytical, and systems thinking and assessment skills who can demonstrate the ability to develop and effectively manage health care policies.

Qualifications and positions are determined under the Qualification Reference Book of the Positions of Managers, Specialists, and Other Employees by the approved order of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Kazakhstan: Pharmacist-technologist; Process engineer; Lecturer; junior researcher; Director of operations.

The Master’s program in Food Biotechnology combines a Master’s program at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan, and Master’s program at ISA Lille, France. It creates opportunities to gain more international knowledge and experience in food science, bioprocesses, and technologies of food manufacture.

Biomedical Engineering is a relatively new field that bridges the traditional disciplines of engineering and Medicine. Examples of Biomedical engineering contributions are the development of pacemakers, high-tech machinery for blood dialysis, and systems for medical imaging through X-ray or magnetic resonance tomography.

The program aims to train new generation managers for the social and business sectors, possessing modern technologies and management tools in the healthcare sector, possessing professional and scientific competence, comprehensive fundamental education, and leadership qualities.

The purpose of the program is to train a new generation of leaders capable of comprehensively solving problems in epidemiology.