Program Objectives 

1. . To equip students with public health knowledge, skills and analytical tools to recognise, evaluate and analyse public health challenges at relevant local, national and regional  levels.
2. To underpin students’ abilities to contribute to developing high quality, effective interventions that address health inequities, strengthen health systems and improve health in a resource poor settings.
3. To provide students with knowledge and skills that will help to protect populations against contemporary and emerging threats or hazards and enable them to influence the wider social, environmental and structural determinants of health.
4. To enhance students’ epidemiological, and other quantitative research skills, so they can critically appraise evidence, plan and implement evidence-based interventions, undertake research, and monitor and evaluate public health activities.
5. To enable students to develop as resilient, effective public health leaders with excellent communication skills and high professional standards who have the ability and motivation to continue learning and work effectively and efficiently within global health systems.