Master Of Public Health

This course equips master's students with in-depth knowledge in environmental health risk assessment (EHRA), advanced environmental health concepts, and designing as well as evaluating evidence-based environmental health intervention programs.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze evidence-based environmental health risks (EHRA) through hazard identification, pollutant dynamics, risk calculation, and safe exposure limits.
• CPMK2 — Able to master advanced environmental health concepts including sanitation, quality standard regulations, environmental disease prevention, and climate change impacts.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, communicate, and evaluate environmental health intervention programs and sanitation engineering based on community participation.

Intermediate Health Administration and Policy equips Master of Public Health students to analyze and design health administration, governance, management, and policy at organizational, health-system, and cross-sector levels. Topics include health systems and governance, organization and accountability, situation-based planning and priority setting, health financing and JKN, the health workforce, the policy cycle, agenda setting and problem framing, stakeholder and political-economy analysis, policy formulation and implementation, monitoring-evaluation and performance management, data governance and SATUSEHAT digital transformation, cross-sector collaboration and Health in All Policies, and the development of policy briefs and strategic recommendations for public health problems including noncommunicable/degenerative diseases. Students use data, scientific evidence, risk analysis, equity, ethics, and community needs to develop feasible and sustainable solutions.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze health administration, health systems, governance, organization, planning, financing, resources, quality, safety, and foundational health-policy concepts comprehensively and based on evidence.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate health administration and policy processes through stakeholder analysis, the policy cycle, formulation, implementation, monitoring-evaluation, advocacy, partnerships, data, information systems, and digital-health transformation.
• CPMK3 — Able to design health-administration and policy solutions, cross-sector collaboration, resource management, and policy briefs and strategic recommendations that are professional, ethical, feasible, equitable, sustainable, and evidence-based.

Intermediate Biostatistics equips Master of Public Health students to appropriately select, apply, evaluate, and interpret statistical methods for health data. Topics include data types and measurement scales, probability and sampling distributions, the central limit theorem, data exploration and visualization, descriptive statistics, estimation and confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, power, parametric and nonparametric tests, categorical data analysis, correlation, simple and multiple linear regression, logistic regression, model diagnostics, confounding and interaction, introductory survival analysis, missing-data handling, and reproducible statistical analysis using statistical software. Learning emphasizes choosing methods according to research questions, study design, assumptions, effect measures, uncertainty, and transparent evidence-based reporting.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze biostatistical concepts and data including data types and scales, probability, sampling distributions, statistical assumptions, exploratory data analysis, descriptive statistics, estimation, and uncertainty for public-health problems.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate the selection, application, and interpretation of bivariate and multi-group inferential methods, categorical-data analysis, association measures, effect size, power, and statistical-test appropriateness based on design, data scale, distribution, and assumptions.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, conduct, interpret, communicate, and defend reproducible multivariable and integrated biostatistical analyses using statistical software, including regression, model diagnostics, survival analysis, missing data, visualization, and ethical, transparent scientific reporting.

Intermediate Health Promotion equips Master of Public Health students to analyze behavioral and social determinants of health, apply behavior-change theories, assess health needs and health literacy, design evidence-based health-promotion interventions, empower communities, use communication and digital media, develop settings-based health promotion, build cross-sector partnerships, apply social marketing, manage infodemics, and develop advocacy and healthy public policy. Learning emphasizes the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of health-promotion programmes that are effective, equitable, participatory, adaptive, and sustainable, including for the prevention and management of noncommunicable/degenerative diseases.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze health-promotion concepts and principles, determinants of health, equity, behavior-change theories, audience needs, health literacy, and health communication as the basis for evidence-based health-promotion strategies.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate and develop theory-based health-promotion strategies through needs assessment, community empowerment, healthy settings, social marketing, digital communication, and infodemic management effectively, equitably, and based on evidence.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, conceptually implement, communicate, and defend a health-promotion programme/policy brief integrating cross-sector collaboration, co-design, digital technology, governance, resources, monitoring-evaluation, advocacy, equity, and sustainability.

Intermediate Epidemiology equips Master of Public Health students to analyze the distribution and determinants of health problems, select and evaluate epidemiologic study designs, calculate and interpret measures of frequency and association, assess validity, bias, confounding, interaction, screening and diagnostic tests, apply causal-inference principles, analyze the epidemiology of noncommunicable/degenerative diseases, design surveillance, conduct outbreak investigations, use digital/spatial epidemiology and dashboards, critically appraise epidemiologic evidence, and translate epidemiologic findings into health-programme and policy recommendations. Learning emphasizes the use of data, scientific evidence, ethics, equity, reproducibility, and community needs.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze foundational epidemiologic concepts, measures of disease frequency and distribution, study designs, association measures, validity, bias, confounding, and causal thinking for public-health problems.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate the application of epidemiologic methods to screening/diagnostics, causal inference, noncommunicable/degenerative-disease epidemiology, surveillance, and outbreak investigation based on data, validity, risk, equity, and scientific evidence.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, integrate, communicate, and defend a data-driven epidemiology project using digital/spatial epidemiology, critical appraisal of evidence, risk analysis, equity, and translation of evidence into programme and policy recommendations.

This course equips master's students with in-depth knowledge in occupational health and safety risk analysis, advanced OHS principles, and designing as well as evaluating OHS management systems across various industrial sectors.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze occupational health and safety risks and workplace hazards comprehensively
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate occupational health and safety principles, theories, and standards in industry
• CPMK3 — Able to design, implement, and evaluate evidence-based OHS Management Systems (OHSMS)

Intermediate Reproductive Health examines reproductive health across the life course through reproductive rights, reproductive epidemiology and demography, gender and equity, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, family planning, fertility and infertility, preconception health, maternal and perinatal health, sexually transmitted infections and HIV, gender-based violence, reproductive health in humanitarian settings, digital technology and data, programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, and evidence-based reproductive-health policy and intervention development.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze concepts, indicators, epidemiology-demography, reproductive rights, social determinants, gender, equity, regulations, and sexual and reproductive health needs across the life course.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate reproductive-health services and programmes for adolescents, family planning, preconception, maternal-perinatal health, STIs/HIV, cervical cancer, and gender-based violence based on quality, safety, access, equity, rights, and scientific evidence.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, integrate, communicate, and defend a reproductive-health intervention/programme or policy brief integrating humanitarian response, digital technology, cross-sector collaboration, planning, monitoring-evaluation, policy analysis, equity, ethics, risk, and sustainability.

Quantitative Research Methods equips Master of Public Health students to formulate research questions and hypotheses, select appropriate quantitative study designs, operationalize variables, develop sampling and sample-size strategies, assess instrument validity and reliability, manage and clean data, select and apply descriptive, inferential, bivariate, and multivariable statistical analyses, control bias and confounding, assess interaction, interpret effect measures and uncertainty, and prepare transparent, ethical, reproducible, evidence-based analysis and reporting plans. Learning culminates in a quantitative research proposal/protocol relevant to public health and degenerative disease problems.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze the principles, logic, ethics, problem statements, objectives, research questions, hypotheses, conceptual frameworks, study designs, validity, bias, confounding, and causal thinking in quantitative public-health research.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate quantitative-research methodology components and analysis strategies including populations and samples, sampling techniques, sample size and power, variables, operational definitions, instruments, validity-reliability, data management, descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and bivariate analysis.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, conceptually conduct, interpret, communicate, and defend a quantitative research proposal/protocol and statistical analysis plan including multivariable analysis, model diagnostics, reproducibility, ethics, and transparent scientific reporting.

Intermediate Public Health Nutrition examines nutrition problems across the life course through nutritional epidemiology, nutritional-status assessment, social and food determinants, food security, maternal and child nutrition, stunting, wasting, anaemia, overweight and obesity, nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases, fortification and supplementation, food safety, nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions, nutrition surveillance, digital technology, programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, and evidence-based public-health nutrition policy and intervention development.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze concepts, indicators, nutritional epidemiology, dietary patterns, food security, social-commercial determinants, food systems, equity, ethics, and nutritional-status assessment to identify public-health nutrition problems.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate nutrition problems and interventions across the life course, including maternal-child nutrition, stunting, wasting, anaemia, micronutrient deficiencies, overweight-obesity, diet-related NCDs, supplementation, fortification, and nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions based on evidence, quality, equity, risk, and feasibility.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, integrate, communicate, and defend a public-health nutrition programme/intervention or policy brief integrating food systems, digital technology, community engagement, planning, resources, monitoring-evaluation, policy analysis, equity, ethics, risk, and sustainability.

Strategic Management and Health Service Quality Management is a Hospital Administration and Management concentration course that examines strategic environmental analysis, governance, leadership, strategy formulation and implementation, balanced scorecards, performance measurement, quality management, patient safety, clinical governance, risk management, accreditation, continuous quality improvement, benchmarking, patient experience, digital dashboards, organizational change, and the development of data-, evidence-, regulation-, and user-needs-based strategic plans and quality-improvement projects.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze strategic and health-service quality-management concepts including governance, leadership, ethics, regulation, patient-centredness, external-internal environmental analysis, strategic risk, organizational culture, SWOT/TOWS, balanced scorecards, and strategic alignment.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate quality-management systems, patient safety, clinical governance, quality indicators, benchmarking, accreditation, risk management, quality-improvement methods, and the use of data and digital technology based on evidence, patient value, equity, and service performance.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, integrate, communicate, and defend a strategic plan and health-service quality-improvement project covering strategy implementation, collaboration, change management, resource management, monitoring-evaluation, policy analysis, risk, resilience, and sustainability.

Health Systems, Governance, Policy and Financing examines health-system structure and functions, governance, leadership, regulation, health policy, universal health coverage, revenue raising, pooling, purchasing, benefit packages, provider payment, strategic purchasing, financial protection, public financial management, equity, accountability, decentralization, digital-health governance, health-system performance analysis, and the formulation of data-, evidence-, risk-, and community-needs-based health-system reform recommendations.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze concepts, theories, structures, functions, governance, regulation, universal health coverage, equity, ethics, and principles of health financing in depth and based on evidence.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate health governance, policy, and financing through stakeholder analysis, the policy cycle, evidence-informed policy, decentralization, strategic purchasing, provider payment, financial protection, equity, efficiency, quality, and health-system performance.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, integrate, communicate, and defend health-system reform recommendations or a policy brief covering collaborative governance, Health in All Policies, digital technology, resource management, public financial management, monitoring-evaluation, risk, resilience, equity, and sustainability.

Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research examines qualitative and mixed-methods paradigms and designs in public health, including problem formulation, design selection, sampling, in-depth interviews, focus groups, observation, documents, ethics, reflexivity, qualitative data management and analysis, coding, thematic analysis, content analysis, trustworthiness, integration of quantitative and qualitative data, joint displays, meta-inference, mixed-methods designs, quality appraisal, scientific reporting, and development of evidence-based research proposals and products.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze paradigms, ontological-epistemological foundations, ethics, reflexivity, researcher positionality, designs, sampling, and qualitative data-collection strategies for solving public-health problems.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate qualitative data management and analysis, coding, thematic/content/framework analysis, trustworthiness, triangulation, audit trails, and interpretive quality based on coherence, evidence, ethics, and rigor.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, integrate, communicate, and defend a qualitative or mixed-methods research proposal/protocol covering design, data integration, joint displays, meta-inference, quality appraisal, ethics, and transparent scientific reporting.

Intermediate Digital Public Health examines the use of digital technologies, data, and information systems to strengthen public-health functions through people-centred, evidence-based, safe, ethical, interoperable, inclusive, and equitable approaches. The course covers digital-health transformation, health information systems and electronic health records, interoperability, data governance, privacy and cybersecurity, data quality, dashboards and visualization, digital epidemiology, digital surveillance, GIS, telehealth, mHealth, wearables, clinical decision support, artificial intelligence, infodemic management, digital health literacy, digital inclusion, regulation, implementation, evaluation, scale-up, and sustainability of digital public-health interventions.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze Digital Public Health concepts, digital-health transformation, information-system architecture, interoperability, data governance, data quality, privacy, cybersecurity, ethics, and equity in public-health contexts.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate Digital Public Health systems and interventions including health information systems, electronic health records, digital surveillance, dashboards, GIS, telehealth, mHealth, wearables, clinical decision support, artificial intelligence, and infodemic management based on effectiveness, usability, quality, safety, ethics, and equity.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, integrate, communicate, and defend a Digital Public Health intervention or project integrating population needs, data and technology, digital inclusion, regulation, stakeholder engagement, implementation, monitoring-evaluation, scale-up, sustainability, and risk mitigation.

Applied Epidemiology, Digital Surveillance and Investigation examines the application of epidemiologic principles for detecting, analyzing, investigating, responding to, and evaluating public-health problems through field epidemiology, indicator- and event-based surveillance, digital surveillance, GIS, dashboards, early warning, outbreak investigation, descriptive and analytic epidemiology, surveillance-system evaluation, risk communication, One Health, and evidence-based response and policy recommendations.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze applied epidemiology concepts, study designs, measures of frequency and association, validity, bias, confounding, field ethics, case definitions, descriptive analysis, and causal thinking for public-health problems.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate surveillance systems, digital surveillance, early warning, outbreak investigation, epidemiologic analysis, data quality, field response, One Health, and risk communication based on evidence, timeliness, validity, equity, safety, and public-health impact.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, integrate, communicate, and defend surveillance/early-warning systems, investigation reports, dashboards, and epidemiologic response or intervention recommendations that are feasible, collaborative, safe, equitable, and evidence-based.

Hospital Management and Patient Safety examines integrated hospital management through governance, leadership, planning, service operations, human resources, finance, facilities, quality, risk, accreditation, safety culture, patient-safety goals, incident reporting, root cause analysis, failure mode and effects analysis, high-reliability organizations, change management, quality indicators, digital dashboards, and the development of data-, evidence-, regulation-, and patient-needs-based quality and patient-safety improvement strategies and projects.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze hospital-management concepts, governance, leadership, regulation, ethics, patient rights, organizational structure, service flows, resources, quality, risk, and patient safety in depth and based on evidence.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate hospital operational management and quality and patient-safety systems including patient flow, capacity, human resources, facilities, finance, logistics, quality indicators, safety culture, incidents, risk management, RCA, FMEA, audits, and accreditation based on evidence, patient value, equity, and performance.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, integrate, communicate, and defend a hospital quality- and patient-safety-improvement project covering high reliability, digital technology, collaboration, resource management, change management, monitoring-evaluation, accreditation, risk mitigation, and sustainability.

Healthcare Professional Community and Health Empowerment examines the development of healthcare professional communities and community empowerment through community engagement, interprofessional collaboration, community diagnosis, asset-based community development, health literacy, behaviour-change communication, participatory planning, co-creation, advocacy, community-based interventions, digital communities, monitoring and evaluation, social accountability, equity, sustainability, and evidence-based capacity strengthening for individuals, families, groups, communities, and health-service networks.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze concepts of healthcare professional communities and health empowerment including community engagement, social accountability, social determinants of health, health literacy, equity, ethics, participation, community capacity, and community-oriented practice.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate community diagnosis, needs and asset mapping, interprofessional collaboration, community participation, empowerment programmes, health literacy, behaviour-change communication, digital community empowerment, and monitoring-evaluation based on evidence, feasibility, equity, ethics, community ownership, and sustainability.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, integrate, communicate, and defend a community- and professional-network-based health-empowerment roadmap or project integrating co-creation, cross-sector collaboration, advocacy, digital technology, resource management, monitoring-evaluation, social accountability, equity, and sustainability.

Food Systems and Community-Based Nutrition Interventions examines the links among food systems, food security, food environments, consumption, nutritional status, social determinants, and public health, and the design of community-based nutrition interventions using life-course, food-systems, community-diagnosis, asset-mapping, social and behaviour change, nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions, fortification, supplementation, local foods, school and workplace nutrition, digital nutrition, monitoring and evaluation, food and nutrition policy, equity, climate resilience, and sustainability approaches.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze the links among food systems, food security, food environments, dietary patterns, nutritional status, social-commercial determinants, food-system drivers, equity, ethics, climate resilience, and community nutrition problems based on data and evidence.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate community nutrition diagnosis and nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions, food-based interventions, social and behaviour change, social protection, digital nutrition, and school/workplace-based programmes based on evidence, feasibility, quality, safety, equity, local ownership, and sustainability.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, integrate, communicate, and defend a community- and food-system-based nutrition intervention roadmap or programme integrating local foods, cross-sector collaboration, digital technology, resource management, monitoring-evaluation, policy, equity, risk mitigation, climate resilience, and sustainability.

Occupational and Environmental Health Risk Management examines hazard identification, exposure assessment, risk characterization, risk control, occupational health, industrial hygiene, toxicology, ergonomics, psychosocial risks, environmental quality, waste, emergency preparedness, incident investigation, risk communication, occupational-safety and environmental management systems, auditing, monitoring and evaluation, digital technology, and the development of integrated, equitable, evidence-based, and sustainable occupational and environmental health risk-control strategies and policies.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze concepts, regulation, ethics, equity, hazards, exposure, dose-response, vulnerability, risk, and occupational and environmental health determinants to identify and prioritize health problems based on data and evidence.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate hazard identification, exposure assessment, risk characterization, the hierarchy of controls, occupational-health surveillance, ergonomics, psychosocial risks, environmental controls, incident investigation, and risk-management systems based on evidence, effectiveness, feasibility, equity, compliance, and risk reduction.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, integrate, communicate, and defend an occupational and environmental health risk-management roadmap or programme integrating risk controls, emergency preparedness, risk communication, digital technology, cross-sector collaboration, monitoring-evaluation, regulatory compliance, resilience, equity, and sustainability.

Sociotechnopreneurship examines the development of public-health innovation and entrepreneurship by integrating social value, technology, user and community needs, sustainability, and organizational and financing models through problem discovery, design thinking, value propositions, theories of change, business models, prototyping, digital health, responsible innovation, stakeholder collaboration, impact measurement, innovation financing, scaling, advocacy, and evidence-based venture or innovation roadmaps.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze sociotechnopreneurship, social entrepreneurship, technological innovation, public value, innovation ecosystems, unmet needs, responsible innovation, ethics, equity, inclusion, social accountability, and opportunity discovery in public-health contexts.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate sociotechnopreneurship solution designs and models through problem discovery, design thinking, value propositions, theories of change, business/social-impact models, prototyping, digital health, implementation context, feasibility, desirability, viability, safety, equity, and evidence.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, integrate, communicate, and defend a public-health sociotechnopreneurship venture plan, innovation roadmap, and pitch integrating governance, cross-sector partnerships, digital technology, financing, resource management, impact measurement, scaling, advocacy, risk management, equity, and sustainability.

Residency is a workplace-based learning course integrating knowledge, skills, professional attitudes, leadership, management, problem analysis, data use, programme planning, quality improvement, interprofessional and cross-sector collaboration, digital technology, intervention implementation, monitoring and evaluation, policy recommendation development, and scientific communication through structured, measurable, reflective, and evidence-based direct experience in healthcare organizations, public-health institutions, or communities.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze organizational and community contexts at the residency site including governance, regulation, ethics, professionalism, organizational structure, service flows, performance indicators, quality, safety, population needs, stakeholders, and determinants of health problems.
• CPMK2 — Able to evaluate problems, programmes, services, quality, safety, risks, data use, resource management, coordination, and organizational performance at the residency site based on evidence, root-cause analysis, feasibility, equity, patient/community value, and improvement needs.
• CPMK3 — Able to design, implement, communicate, and defend an improvement project or managerial/policy recommendation at the residency site integrating cross-sector collaboration, digital technology, resource management, change management, monitoring-evaluation, risk mitigation, equity, sustainability, and follow-up plans.

The Thesis Proposal Seminar is a research-based course that equips Master of Public Health students to critically identify and analyze public-health problems using data and scientific evidence, design research proposals using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method approaches, and communicate and defend research designs scientifically, professionally, ethically, and responsibly. The course primarily supports CPL3, CPL4, CPL9, and CPL10 of the 2026 MPH OBE curriculum.

• CPMK1 — Able to design an original, relevant, systematic, logical, and evidence-based public-health research proposal and defend it academically in a proposal seminar forum.

The Thesis Result Seminar is a research-based course that equips Master of Public Health students to process, analyze, interpret, and evaluate public-health research findings using data and scientific evidence; systematically develop results, discussion, conclusions, and recommendations; and scientifically, professionally, ethically, and responsibly communicate and defend research findings. The course primarily supports CPL3, CPL8, CPL9, and CPL12 of the MPH OBE curriculum.

• CPMK1 — Able to analyze, evaluate, compose, communicate, and defend public-health research findings systematically, critically, scientifically, professionally, and based on evidence in a thesis result seminar forum.

The Thesis & Scientific Publication course is a final research-based course that equips master's students with the ability to apply academic integrity, professional ethics, and plagiarism prevention in scientific writing, evaluate public health research contributions and refine full thesis manuscripts, and create scientific articles ready for reputable journal publication while defending the manuscript in the Final Thesis Examination.

• CPMK1 — When presented with final public health research drafts, students are able to apply academic integrity and scientific publication ethics; evaluate the scientific contribution and novelty of the full thesis manuscript; create journal articles ready for submission to reputable journals; and defend their scholarly work academically in the Final Thesis Examination.