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Dear friends, kindly help me to know about the syllabus of Master of Public Health course of IIPH Gandhinagar. I am planning to do this course so I want to know about the course syllabus.

Course syllabus of Master of Public Health in IIPH Gandhinagar are:-
Semester 1 -
Introduction to Public Health
Human Biology & Public Health Chemistry
Medical & Health Statistics
Research Methods in Public Health
Health Psychology, Communication & Counselling
Practical/ Field visits

Semester 2 -
Epidemiology
Demography & Population Sciences
Project Planning & Management
Communicable & Infectious Diseases
Non-Communicable Diseases

Semester 3 -
Health of Vulnerable Populations
Environmental Health & Sustainable Development
Occupational, Industrial and Urban Health
Health Policy, Planning & Economics
Public Health Internship
Practical/ Field Visit

Semester 4 -
Public Health Nutrition
Health Systems Development & Management
International Health
Research Project

Master of Public Health is a 2 year duration course and is divided into 4 semesters. The detailed syllabus is given below.

Semester I

Introduction to Public Health
Human Biology & Public Health Chemistry
Medical & Health Statistics
Research Methods in Public Health
Health Psychology, Communication & Counseling

Semester II

Epidemiology
Demography & Population Sciences
Project Planning & Management
Communicable & Infectious Diseases
Non-Communicable Diseases

Semester III

The Health of Vulnerable Populations
Environmental Health & Sustainable Development
Occupational, Industrial and Urban Health
Health Policy, Planning & Economics
Public Health Internship

Semester IV

Public Health Nutrition
Health Systems Development & Management
International Health
Research Project Work

°°° The curriculum of first students the possibility to develop a scientific approach and a good theoretical understanding of the various topics that comprise the discipline of Public Health science. Students must complete 80 credits to acquire the MPH degree. Most of these, 62 credits are for compulsory courses, 6th for elective courses and 22 for field work during internship and Dissertation.

° Syllabus

Introduction to public health

Epidemiology

Social and Behaviourial Sciences in Health

Environmental and occupational health

Health policy and health systems

Health Management

Public Health Nutrition

Biostatistics

Communicable and noncommunicable

Disease

Program Management

Reproductive and Child Health

Demography

Essentials of Health Economics

National Health Programs

Disease Surveillance

Research Methodology

Health communication and promotion

Gender and health

Health financing and health insurance

Ethics in Research

Public Health Laws