Master’s

The Master’s in Public Health at the UFC seeks to train committed and qualified students at the Master’s level in the performance of scientific research and academic teaching, and to become active leaders for the consolidation of public health policies.

The course enrols students from different undergraduate courses in health and related areas. Currently, there are participants from twelve (12) undergraduate courses: Nursing, Nutrition, Medicine, Psychology, Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine, Speech Therapy, Physiotherapy, Pharmacy, Biological Sciences, Law and Journalism. Since its creation in 1994, almost 386 students from different disciplinary fields have received a Master’s in Public Health by the UFC.

The curriculum is interdisciplinary and flexible. Alongside the fundamental requirements demanded in the scientific field of Collective Health, students have the flexibility to establish their own complementary choices to the research project developed, in line with their research areas.

Students can develop their dissertation in two areas of concentration, with two sub areas of research each:

AREA 1 – EPIDEMIOLOGY

Sub Area – Epidemiology, prevention and control of infectious and parasitic diseases 

Sub Area – Epidemiology, prevention and control of diseases and non-infectious diseases

 AREA 2 – POLICIES, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY

Sub Area – Production – environment and health

Sub Area – Health policies, management, evaluation and education

Master’s consists of a training of up to twenty-four (24) months. For the completion, disciplines, modules and/or academic activities, should sum up at least thirty (30) credits. 

The five compulsory modules, of two credits each, seek to ensure a theoretical reflection on the different disciplines for Master’s students to acquire and expand knowledge about the field of Collective Health. The optional modules seek to ensure various options so that each student can establish, together with his or her adviser, a particular path to the research object, based on the core of knowledge and practices that intends to deepen. In addition to the modules, the Master’s requires the fulfillment of some activities: Advised Study I and II, Teacher Training I, Foreign Language Proficiency and Comprehensive Exam.

MASTER’S IN PUBLIC HEALTH CURRICULUM

COMPULSORY MODULES

CODEMODULECREDITS
SDP7677Seminars of Research Development2
SDP7655Fundamentals of Epistemology and Public Health2
SDP7322Health Policies, Planning, Organization and Epidemiology in Health Services2
SDP7688Production, Environment and Health2
SDP7500Methods and Techniques in Health2
SDP7666Advised Study I and II 2
SDP7999Dissertation6

OPTIONAL MODULES

CODEMODULECREDITS
SDP7166Quantitative Methods in Epidemiology3
SDP7755Advanced Topics in Occupational Health2
SDP7388Qualitative Methodology of Social Research in Health2
SDP7044Methodology of Epidemiologic Investigation3
SDP7622Special Topics in Public Health2
SDP7766Project Development I 3
SDP7244Medical Informatics I2
SDP7288Medical Informatics II2
SDP7699Bioethics and Citizenship2
SDP7711Health Evaluation2
SDP7466Epidemiology and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases2
SDP7522Health Education2
SDP7544Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases of Importance in Public Health2
SDP7588Advanced Seminars in Statistics2
SDP7144Health, Culture and Society2
SDP7366Epidemiology and Actions of Maternal-Child Health2
SDP8025Andragogy and Didactics2

ACTIVITIES

CODEACTIVITYCREDITS
SDP0149Teacher Training I4
SDP0098Foreign Language Proficiency1
SDP0039Comprehensive Exam1