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.