Introduction
The world today is faced with challenging health threats from various diseases detected new or re-emergence of existing diseases. Medicine is a discipline of public health disease prevention and promoting health through community participation, organization, public and private sectors and individuals.
This program prepares students to address these challenges through discipline methods that incorporate the latest knowledge of public health, rational thinking and decision-making, professionalism, ethics and cooperation. Master of Public Health at University Putra Malaysia will definitely help the students in order to improve the health of the population. The program covers all the key areas in the field of public health, such as epidemiology, medical statistics, health services management, health promotion, family health, environmental medicine and occupational medicine.
This programme seeks to produce medical and health professionals who have strong foundation in the broad field of public health medicine, as well as adequate training and preparation to take up speciality and/or sub speciality discipline of their own choice.
Curriculum structure
First semester:
Coursework and assessment of courses in Public Health Medicine
Practical Training of Public Health
Second semester:
Elective and elective assessment of Public Health Medicine
Dissertation and dissertation assessment
