Program Description:

This MSc program is designed to provide opportunity for students to learn fundamental skills in conducting needs assessment, personal, social and organizational behavior analysis, developing, implementing and evaluating of the program, applications of behavioral and social science theories to intervention design.

Objectives:

• Expected Competencies at the End of the Program
• General Competencies
• Specific Competencies and Skills

At the end of the program learners will be competent in:

• Understanding and describing health problems
• Diagnosing and investigating health problems and solutions
• Informing, educating and empowering people about health problems and solutions
• Mobilizing community partnerships to identify and solve health problems
• Choosing cost-effective and evidence-based intervention methods in health
• Designing, developing, implementing and evaluating local interventions
• Putting strategies into practice in the local plans of actions
• Understanding how to implement strategies
• Making efforts to strengthen national capacity, leadership, and the interdepartmental and intersectoral approach to improve health
• Paying attention to the need for partnerships and interdepartmental cooperation for improvement of health
• Need assessment
• Intervention development and program planning and evaluation
• Appraisal of public health in the society
• Working as a professional in various settings of health system

Duration: 2.5 Years 

Courses and number of credits:

Prerequisite courses:                  6 credits

Special Courses:                           20 credits

Thesis:                                          6 credits

Program Curriculum

For more information, please download:  Program Curriculum of Health Education and Health Promotion