MSc Public Health

Academic Overview

Public health protects communities — not just individuals. This MSc trains practitioners to design surveillance systems, evaluate interventions, and influence policy. You will study epidemiological methods, environmental health, health economics, and programme evaluation using cases from the NHS, WHO frameworks, and community health networks in Africa and Asia. The dissertation addresses a real population-health question for a partner organisation. MSc Public Health is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 24 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Principles of Public Health through Principles of Public Health; Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Health Promotion & Behaviour Change; Environmental & Occupational Health; Health Systems & Policy; Global Health & Inequity, and finish on MSc Public Health Dissertation. 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 and interpret cohort and case-control studies Conduct health needs assessments for defined populations Evaluate public-health programmes using economic and outcome metrics 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.

The degree is awarded directly by IU International University of Applied Sciences, seated in Warsaw, Poland. Studies are conducted in full alignment with Polish and European academic standards.

Curriculum & Core Modules

The curriculum comprises 36 ECTS credits structured across progressive academic modules:

Teaching & Assessment Methodology

Career Trajectories

• Public Health Consultant
• Epidemiologist
• Health Policy Advisor
• NGO Health Director
• Environmental Health Officer

European Campus & Academic Facilities

Seated at Prosta 20 in Warsaw, IU International University of Applied Sciences offers state-of-the-art academic lecture halls, digital research repositories, and vibrant collegiate spaces for both on-campus and international distance scholars.

Main academic building at Prosta 20, Warsaw.

Collegiate courtyard and research study spaces.

Academic facilities and faculty laboratory suites.