Learning outcomes
The International Community Health Master is a research based master program. By successfully and actively participating, you will acquire knowledge and skills to develop and expand your capacity to understand and critically assess issues related to international community health from global to local level. We focus both on providing familiarity with essential knowledge, research methods and on placing this into a broader context of how the communities we study are embedded in societies.
You will learn to plan and ethically conduct a relevant international community health research and interventions. This entails both the use of specialized research tools and to communicate your expertise as a contribution to improve health at local, national or international levels.
Knowledge
You will
- gain insight into essential concepts of community health
- have familiarity with the employed quantitative and qualitative methodology
- understand the entwined nature of human and microbial ecology
- acquire knowledge on the impact of non-communicable diseases
- learn about specific relevance of reproductive health
- have acquired knowledge on community nutrition in its importance for a community’s health
- learn about aging and disability as community health challenges
- understand the fundamentals of child health
- learn about hiv/aids and understand the challenge that it poses to community health
- gain insight on how community health figures in today’s global society
- further deepen your studies by choosing elective subjects such as research ethics, intervention epidemiology, anthropology, communication in community health, studying health information systems or the interrelates topics of sexual and reproductive health
Skills
Working in the program shall give you the ability to
- search for relevant literature and to perform a critical review of it
- develop a research protocol for your project
- handle statistical methods of your field
- analyze the subject of your study with epidemiological methods
- creatively use qualitative methodology in pursuit of your research
- discuss and develop research methodology in relation to community health research
- provide for its realization by gaining consent from the relevant ethical committees
- perform filed work in a community health research project
- complete an Mphil thesis on your research project
Competences
As our student you are supposed to
- participate in and contribute to a classroom discussions that brings together students from a wide variety of backgrounds, interests and countries.
- be able to critically evaluate and creatively use important theoretical concepts
- improve your academic presentation skills, facilitating dissemination of your work in written and in spoken language to specialist and lay audiences
- reflect critical on your own and the research of others
- be able to participate in academic debates of your field
- contribute to your fields knowledge and methods through your work
- acquire skills and networks that you can use in your further career