Public Health University of Malta

Overview

The main areas of the  Public Health  course at the University of Malta  are: Research Methods - Epidemiology and Qualitative Research, Medical Statistics, Health Information Science, Health Promotion, Organisation of Health Care Systems and Management, Environmental Health, Sociology of Iillness, Applied Epidemiology, Communicable and Non-communicable Diseases, Social Policy and Health Economics.

Career opportunities

The course is especially attractive for 3 types of career progression, enabling you to enter a career in:

• Public health; to get the basic knowledge and skills from a reputable University and department which will set them into the career path of public health and start climbing the ladder as a public health professional.
• Education; to fulfil the Masters level of academia in public health and bridge the gap between a basic health professional course and a PhD in a public health related field.
• Health; if you are a health professional already engaged in your field and career to garner useful public health and health managerial skills to enable you to take on higher levels of responsibility which utilises population based health skills for higher management and planning.