The Master’s Program in Public Health is designed to prepare qualified professionals with the high level of training and skills needed to take the demographic, ecological, social, economic, psychological, age-related, and cultural determinants of health in a population into consideration when implementing models of care for health promotion and prevention in order to contribute to health education.
The program focuses on a comprehensive study in public health practice, public health policy and management, epidemiology (with special attention paid to the surveillance and monitoring of endemic, epidemic, and pandemic diseases), biostatistics, data analysis, and inference, public and private hospital management, and program development. Graduates learn to apply methodologies, knowledge and skills in the practice of public health, epidemiology, data analysis and inference and program development, considering the cultural, social, economic and legal diversities that govern the model of care
Graduates are expected to be able to lead multidisciplinary teams with the aim of designing and applying research and studies in public health problems in order to roll out preventive measures to improve a population’s living conditions, they are expected to be capable of carrying out directive and advisory functions as well as those of researcher and teacher and demonstrate criteria and commitment to perform in public and private hospital management making relevant decisions.
Program enrollment: Program headcount totals the number of students enrolled yearly.
Graduation rate: is calculated through the 2020-2021 academic year, based on new, first-time students entering in the fall semester, regardless of whether they enroll in the daytime or evening version of their program (if available). These rates do not consider incoming transfer students.
In every semester, the program provides assessment results according to its Multiannual Assessment Plan (MAP), which typically considers one or more of its program learning outcomes (PLOs). Most programs utilize the platform Brightspace to collect and assess student work and to present the data and evidence of student achievement. These results and their analysis, with the objective of identifying areas for improvement, are presented in the program’s annual assessment report. In the graphic below, the most recent period in which a PLO has been assessed is indicated, with the percentage indicating achievement of the expected performance standard for that PLO, according to the rubric used to evaluate the student work. This standard can be designated at an introductory, intermediate, or final level, depending upon how the course learning outcomes (CLOs) align to each PLO in the program’s curriculum map.