Master of Public Health Training Program
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Program Overview
It is a two-year program of classroom-based & field-based training in epidemiology & various public health disciplines
Trainees are required to take, and pass, regularly scheduled tests and a final exam for each of the academic courses taken. In addition, trainees develop a thesis project based on one of the field investigations undertaken during the field attachment.
Trainees are required to take, and pass, regularly scheduled tests and a final exam for each of the academic courses taken. In addition, trainees develop a thesis project based on one of the field investigations undertaken during the field attachment.
The goal of the program is to produce public health practitioners who possess the knowledge, skills and professional attitudes required to assume leadership roles within the public health system of Zimbabwe.
More about Our Program
ELIGIBILITY
Applicants should hold a university degree in medicine or health sciences, plus at least three years’ work experience.
OUR CURRICULUM
The course schedule is divided into two: alternating academic and field blocks.
Trainees take the following courses:
- Computer skills
- Descriptive Epidemiology
- Bio-statistics and Demography
- Health Promotion
- Communication Skills
- Analytic Epidemiology and Bio-statistics
- Maternal and Child Health
- Family Planning
- Communicable Diseases
- Environmental and Occupational Health
- Health Service Planning and Management
- Health Economics
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
- 40% Classroom-based, 60% Field-based
- Skills acquired in epidemiology, management, behavioral sciences, communicable diseases and health ecomomics