PhD Public Health

Opis i cele kształcenia

Public health research prevents disease and strengthens systems that enable healthy lives. The PhD Public Health trains researchers who can design epidemiologic and health systems studies, analyse population data, and translate findings for policy. Year 1 advanced coursework in epidemiology, biostatistics, health systems and research ethics is followed by candidacy and multi-year dissertation research. Supervisors work across infectious and non-communicable disease, equity, and health systems implementation. PhD Public Health is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 3–5 years, and the credit total is 60. Students move from Advanced Epidemiologic Methods through Advanced Epidemiologic Methods; Biostatistics for Population Health Research; Health Systems, Policy & Implementation Science; Doctoral Seminar in Public Health Ethics; PhD Candidacy Examination; Doctoral Dissertation Research, and finish on Doctoral Dissertation Research. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students describe how people, records, and decisions move through one service, and separate cause from harm. Reading is a pathway description, an incident summary, and an information standard. The artefact a marker expects is a brief a service manager could use, with the evidence attached. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Design rigorous epidemiologic and population health studies Analyse complex health data with advanced biostatistical methods Evaluate health systems and implementation strategies Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. This course does not confer a licence to practise nursing, medicine, or any other clinical profession. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.

Dyplom ukończenia studiów wydaje IU Międzynarodowy Uniwersytet Nauk Stosowanych z siedzibą w Warszawie. Kształcenie odbywa się w oparciu o polskie i europejskie standardy akademickie.

Struktura modułów i program nauczania

Program obejmuje 60 punktów ECTS zorganizowanych w moduły semestralne:

Forma kształcenia i zaliczenia

Perspektywy zawodowe absolwentów

• University Faculty / Research Scientist
• Epidemiologist (Government / Agency)
• Health Systems Researcher
• WHO / International NGO Research Lead
• Public Health Policy Advisor

Kampus w Warszawie i zaplecze akademickie

Siedziba uczelni mieści się przy ul. Prostej 20 w Warszawie — w samym sercu stolicy Polski. Studenci stacjonarni korzystają z nowoczesnej infrastruktury dydaktycznej, a studenci online z pełnego wsparcia cyfrowego.

Główny gmach akademicki przy ul. Prostej 20 w Warszawie.

Dziedziniec uniwersytecki i przestrzenie seminaryjne.

Infrastruktura dydaktyczna i laboratoria wydziałowe.