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Department of Precision Public Health

Epidemiology, biostatistics, genomic surveillance, outbreak intelligence and health systems science.

Degree programmes
4
Credit units
402
Credentials
3
Study modes
3

Source of truth: the exported Curriculum Compendium data for the School of Health, Life Sciences and Bioengineering.

Degrees owned by this department

4 degree programmes

Every degree below carries a full term-by-term and block-by-block curriculum, programme learning outcomes, a twelve-capability profile and an employment thesis.

BSc (Hons)FU/HLB/BPPH · 3 years (6 semesters) · 132 credit units

Bachelor of Science in Precision Public Health and Epidemiology

East Africa is the world's most consequential theatre for outbreak detection and response, and its public health workforce is overwhelmingly trained at postgraduate level, leaving districts staffed by people improvising with spreadsheets. T...

Campus · Hybrid · 12 months paid co-op

Programme and employment thesis
MPHFU/HLB/MPHD · 18 months (3 semesters) · 90 credit units

Master of Public Health in Digital Epidemiology

A Master of Public Health built for a surveillance environment that is now digital, genomic and real time. It trains population health leaders who can build and run modern surveillance and modelling capability rather than commission it, and...

Campus · Online · Hybrid · 12 months paid co-op

Programme and employment thesis
MScFU/HLB/MBGM · 18 months (3 semesters) · 90 credit units

Master of Science in Bioinformatics and Genomic Medicine

African genomes are the most diverse on earth and the least represented in reference databases, which means that precision medicine developed elsewhere routinely misclassifies African patients. Closing that gap requires African bioinformati...

Campus · Online · Hybrid · 12 months paid co-op

Programme and employment thesis
MPHFU/HLB/MPHS · 18 months (3 semesters) · 90 credit units

Master of Public Health in Public Health Systems

Uganda's public health workforce is overwhelmingly trained to deliver programmes rather than to design, finance and lead the systems those programmes run inside, and the result is districts staffed by capable people improvising with spreadsheets. Public health systems is the discipline of making a ...

Campus · Hybrid

Programme and employment thesis