General information

Academic year: 2025/2026

Level: Master

Type: Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree

ECTS Credits: 120

Programme orientation Research

Length of programme (full time): 2 YEARS

Mode of delivery: Face-to-face

Level of qualification: Máster (MECES level 3 - EQF level 7)

Model of study: Full-time (42-60 ECTS per school year)

Work placement: Yes

Language(s) of instruction Spanish, French, English


More info: programme website


Programme coordinator

Name: JOSÉ JESÚS, MARTÍN MARTÍN / jmartin@uumVEVdgr.es


Main focus

; Graduates of this master’s programme will be able to: – Identify and integrate the key concepts related to public health, their consequences in public health practice and in the exercise of the health profession. – Analyse the evolution of the main challenges of public health in the 21st century from a historical perspective. – Use basic tools for health needs assessment. – Use basic tools for community intervention in public health – Use basic methodologies for the analysis and evaluation of health policies. – Describe and analyse the concepts of health and disease from the perspective of social determinants of health and health inequalities. – Use the sociological, economic, legal, and political perspectives for the analysis of health systems. – Describe the competences, responsibilities and roles of public health professionals and health system services and analyse their performance. – Identify and integrate the key concepts of ethics in public health. – Analyse different methodologies in Public Health (Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Qualitative Methodology). – Analyse health policies, organisation, management and economics. – Analyse health promotion and disease prevention as well as the social, physical, chemical and biological environment.

Competences

Students that have completed the second cycle have the following competencies: – Have demonstrated knowledge and understanding that is founded upon a basis or opportunity for originality in developing and/or applying ideas, often within a research context. – Can apply their acquired knowledge and understanding, and problem solving abilities in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their field of study. – Have the ability to integrate knowledge and handle complexity, and formulate judgments with incomplete or limited information, but that include reflecting on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments. – Can communicate their conclusions, and the knowledge and rationale underpinning these, to specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously. – Have the learning skills to allow them to continue to study in a manner that may be largely self-directed or autonomous.

Programme qualification

Name of title awarded in original language

Máster Universitario Erasmus Mundus en Excelencia en Salud Pública

Qualification requirements

120 minimum credits

Programme courses

Course Name Year Period
Advanced core module in Health Policy and Management 2nd Year
Advanced Core module- Biostatistics 2nd Year
Advanced Epidemiology 1st Year Yearly
Advanced module – Health Policy and Management 2nd Year
Advanced module – Prevention and Health Promotion 2nd Year
Advanced module Biostatistics 2nd Year
Advanced module Epidemiology 2nd Year
Advanced qualitative methods 1st Year Yearly
Analysis in Epidemiology (I) 2nd Year
Analysis in Epidemiology (II) 2nd Year
Analysis of Public Action in Health 1st Year 2nd Semester
Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and Health Services Management 1st Year Yearly
Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and Health Services Management Management 2nd Year
Assess the health impacts of environmental factors 2nd Year
Basics 2nd Year
Behaviour Change and Social Influence 1st Year 2nd Semester
Biostatistics 1st Year 1st Semester
Biostatistics I 1st Year Yearly
Biostatistics II 1st Year Yearly
Case study 2nd Year
Change management and leadership 2nd Year
Chronic Disease Epidemiology 2nd Year
Citizenship Ethics 2nd Year
Clinical Trials 1st Year Yearly
Communicable Disease Control 1st Year 2nd Semester
Communicable Disease Epidemiology 1st Year Yearly
Concepts, Methods and design in Epidemiology 2nd Year
Contemporary challenges in Health Promotion and Prevention Promotion and Prevention 2nd Year
Contemporary Health Psychology and Behaviour Change 1st Year 2nd Semester
Critical Approach to Evidence-Based Public Health 1st Year 1st Semester
Critical Reflections in Global Health 1st Year Yearly
Digital cohorts 2nd Year
Digital transition in healthcare 1st Year 2nd Semester
Disaster and Emergency Management 1st Year 1st Semester
Dissertation 2nd Year
Dissertation and Placement 2nd Year
Dissertation and Placement 2nd Year
Dissertation and placement 2nd Year
Droit, législation et règlementation dans le secteur des 1st Year 1st Semester
Economic burden of diseases 2nd Year
Economic Evaluation and Healthcare Financing 1st Year 2nd Semester
Economic solutions to current health system problems 2nd Year
Economy and Health Policy 2nd Year
Education and Communication 1st Year
Electronic health data 2nd Year
Environmental Health 1st Year Yearly
Environmental Health Risk Assessment: adaptation and mitigation strategies 2nd Year
EPI Analysis in Epidemiology (I) 2nd Year
Epidemiology 1st Year Yearly
Epidemiology 1st Year 2nd Semester
Ethics in Health Organization 1st Year Yearly
Food Anthropology 1st Year 1st Semester
From Research to Action in Public Health Nutrition 1st Year 2nd Semester
Fundamentals in environmental health and climate change 2nd Year
Fundamentals in environmental health and climate change 2nd Year
Further Statistics For Health Science Researchers 1st Year 2nd Semester
General Introduction to Public Health 1st Year 1st Semester
Gestion stratégique des organisations de santé 1st Year 2nd Semester
GIS dedicated to Environmental Health 2nd Year
Global Changes and Health 1st Year 2nd Semester
Graduate Teaching Assistant 1st Year Yearly
Health and Safety Training 2nd Year
Health care financing and economic incentive 2nd Year
Health Economics 2nd Year
Health Impact Assessment: bridging evidence & policy 2nd Year
Health Needs Assessment, Planning and Evaluation 1st Year Yearly
Health Policies and Systems 2nd Year
Health prevention and promotion projects 2nd Year
Health Promotion 1st Year 2nd Semester
Health Promotion 1st Year Yearly
Health Promotion 1st Year Yearly
Health Promotion and its Determinants 1st Year 1st Semester
Health promotion and prevention themes themes 2nd Year
Health Services Management 2nd Year
Health Services Management 1st Year Yearly
Health system resilience: developing strategic actions in Europe 2nd Year
Health systems goals and performance in transition 2nd Year
Health technology assessment 2nd Year
Health Technology Assessment and Medical-Economic Evaluation 1st Year 1st Semester
HPM Health Care Management 2nd Year
HPM Managing community program implementation 2nd Year
Human resources for health 2nd Year
Identification and diagnosis of Environmental Health problems in a territory 2nd Year
Improved knowledge of health prevention and promotion strategies 2nd Year
Improved knowledge of health prevention and promotion themes 2nd Year
Infectious Disease Epidemiology 2nd Year
Ingegration Modulo 1st Year
Integration Module 1st Year Yearly
Integration Module 1st Year
Integration module 1st Year
Integration Module 1st Year
Integration Module 1st Year Yearly
Integration Module (at EHESP in Rennes) 1st Year
Integration Module: Building Innovative and sustainable solutions to global health challenges 2nd Year
Integration of environmental health in policies, projects and interventions 2nd Year
Integrative Module 1st Year Yearly
Interculturality and health 1st Year 2nd Semester
International Health I 1st Year Yearly
Internship and thesis 2nd Year
Internship and thesis 2nd Year
Intervention strategies and methods in health prevention and promotion 2nd Year
Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology 1st Year Yearly
Introduction to governance in health system health system 2nd Year
Introduction to Knowledge Synthesis, Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analysis 1st Year Yearly
Introduction to Public Health: public health systems and policies 1st Year Yearly
Introduction to R software for data sciences 2nd Year
Introduction to R: computing, graphics for statistics & Epidemiology 2nd Year
Introduction to Research Methods 1st Year Yearly
Introduction to Statistics and Critical Appraisal 1st Year Yearly
ISB Spatial statistical analysis 2nd Year
Laws and ethics for better public health 2nd Year
Leadership and Strategic Transformation 2nd Year
Leading and Managing Health Services 1st Year 2nd Semester
Méthodologie de la recherche 1st Year Yearly
Market and state in health care – economic perspective 2nd Year
Master¿s seminar and Dissertation 2nd Year
Modèles organisationnels et économiques des systèmes 1st Year 1st Semester
Modeling of infectious diseases 2nd Year
Modelling of infectious diseases module 2nd Year
Monitoring and following Environmental Health actions 2nd Year
Multi-level Analysis 2nd Year
Multidimensional & multivariate statistical methods 2nd Year
Multivariate Regression Modelos 1st Year Yearly
Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology 1st Year Yearly
Nutritional Epidemiology 1st Year Yearly
Omics data 2nd Year
One Health 1st Year Yearly
One Health Concept and Integrative Health Approaches 1st Year 2nd Semester
Perinatal & Pediatric Epidemiology 2nd Year
Perinatal and pediatric epidemiology 2nd Year
Practical Placement 2nd Year
Practical placement 2nd Year
Principles of Epidemiology 1st Year Yearly
Professional Skills in Public Health 1st Year Yearly
Project Management in Public Health 1st Year 2nd Semester
Projections of Health Care Expediture and Revenue 2nd Year
Public Health Informatics 1st Year 2nd Semester
Public Health Practice & Policy 1st Year Yearly
Qualitative Research Design and Analysis 1st Year 2nd Semester
Qualitative Research Methods 1st Year 2nd Semester
Regulatory affairs and market access of health products in Europe 2nd Year
Research methods applied to health Research methods applied to health prevention and promotion 2nd Year
Research Methods in Genetic Epidemiology 1st Year Yearly
Research methods in public health 1st Year Yearly
Research Plan, theory, methods and ethics 2nd Year
Research project (Internship) and Master thesis 2nd Year
Risk Perception, Communication & Behavioural Change 1st Year Yearly
Santé des populations 1st Year 1st Semester
Social-Ecological System Health 1st Year 2nd Semester
Societal and Ethical Health Issues 1st Year 1st Semester
Sociology & Social Epidemiology 1st Year Yearly
Sociology of Health and Illness 1st Year 2nd Semester
Soft Skills Workshops: General Competencies 1st Year Yearly
Spatial statistical analysis 2nd Year
SUPRA OPTIONAL Advanced core module – Epidemiology 2nd Year
SUPRA OPTIONAL Advanced core module in Prevention & Health promotion 2nd Year
SUPRA OPTIONAL Advanced quantitative methods in Population Mental Health 2nd Year
SUPRA OPTIONAL Biostatistics upgrade 2nd Year
SUPRA OPTIONAL GIS & Environmental Health 2nd Year
SUPRA OPTIONAL In function of the overall planning: Introduction to R 2nd Year
SUPRA OPTIONAL Introduction to Multi-Level Analysis 2nd Year
SUPRA OPTIONAL: Epidemiology II 1st Year
SUPRA OPTIONAL: l Multilevel Analysis 1st Year Yearly
Sustainability and resilience of health systems 2nd Year
Sustainability and Transition 1st Year 1st Semester
Systematic Reviews and Critical Appraisal Techniques 1st Year 2nd Semester
Thesis Preparation 1st Year Yearly
Using Policy to Strengthen Health Systems 1st Year 2nd Semester
Value creation (online and asynchronous) 2nd Year
Values in health systems 2nd Year
Web-based data 2nd Year

Specialisations

Specialisation name

– No Specialisation. University of Sheffield – No Specialisation. Université de Liège – No Specialisation. University College Dublin – Advanced Biostatistics and Epidemioloy – Health and Environment in a Context of Climate Change – Health Promotion and Prevention – Health Services Management and Digital Transformation – Leadership in European Public Health – Governance and Economics of Health Systems in Transition – Public Health Data Science

Admission information

Access to Master’s Degree programmes is granted to holders of:
A.1. A Spanish official university degree.
A.2. A degree issued by a Higher Education institution from another European Higher Education Area Member State which allows access to Master Degree’s programmes in that State.
A.3. A degree from a non-EHEA education system, upon verification by the Spanish University that the aforementioned degree accredits an equivalent education level to that of a Spanish university degree and allows access to postgraduate programmes in the issuing country.
A.4. A Spanish Bachelor in Advanced Artistic Education.
A.5. Official Spanish university degrees of Diplomado, Arquitecto Técnico, Ingeniero Técnico, Licenciado, Arquitecto, Ingeniero, Graduado or Máster Universitario.

Specific admission requirements

uage competence in one or two languages appropriate to the chosen mobility combination and languages of instruction. In English, for the 1st year at the University of Sheffield, a minimum level of C1 on the scale of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages is required.

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