The Master’s Programme in Public Health Science is for those who are interested in health and public health. Our programme provides students with the skills they need to work strategically and practically with public health, both nationally and internationally. You will learn the individual and structural factors that impact health and what conditions ensure individuals have good health and health equality. After completing the programme, you will have a range of career opportunities and can continue on to doctoral studies.

The Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Public Health in Disasters (EMMPHID) is a joint university educational programme organizsd by the Emergency and Disaster Research Unit of the Universidad de Oviedo (Spain), the Department for Global Public Health at Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) and the and the Department of Primary Care and Population Health of the University of Nicosia (Cyprus).

The Program is conducted as a hybrid education meaning that lectures and assignments take place both at the university and on distance. A specialist nurse has extensive nursing and medical knowledge in a specific health care area. A primary health care nurse assesses, plans, performs and evaluates the nursing process involving individuals and their experiences of health and ill health, which means identifying illness, symptoms, and functional reduction as well as self-care needs and resources for promoting health and adjustment to a changed life situation.

This is a cross-disciplinary programme with a global perspective. It provides students with evidence-based knowledge and a toolkit for conducting research, policy-making and fieldwork. The faculty has substantial experience from a range of disciplinary and geographical contexts and the diversity of the student body contributes to a stimulating learning environment. As one student expressed it: “The class and teaching are a microcosm of the global context we’ll face in work-life". Alumni are currently employed at a variety of institutions such as national health ministries, UNICEF, the WHO and various NGOs. In addition, many are researchers at top-ranked universities.

The programme gives you the possibility to develop a scientific approach and a good theoretical understanding of Public Health Sciences as well as for the chosen specialisation in Public Health Epidemiology or Health Promotion and Prevention.