Public Health - Health Economics (Second Year) Umea University

Overview

By nature, Public Health is multidisciplinary, drawing on social sciences and medicine, using quantitative and qualitative methods to identify and assess specific health risks before designing and implementing effective population-based strategies.

This Public Health - Health Economics (Second Year) programme from Umea University consist of the second year of our two-year programme in public health with a specialization in health economics. The programme requires that the student has completed studies consisting of 60 credits in the field of public health of which at least 5 credits must include basic health economics expertise and 30 credits at advanced level.

Career opportunities

This programme gives knowledge that can be used in NGO’s, public organisations and private companies. Many graduates will work in the public sector in local and state institutions, from e.g. hospitals to the Ministry of Health. They may work with public health policies, health advocacy, legislation, management, evaluation of interventions or to analyse the effect of decisions on different levels.  

Graduates can find jobs in non-profit organizations such as Red Cross, Save the Children, Medecins Sans Frontièrs or Clinton Health Access initiative. Other graduates will go to the private sector working e.g., for pharmaceutical companies or for health insurance companies. Others will work for the health minister or at WHO.