Europubhealth+ Europäischer Masterstudiengang für öffentliche Gesundheit

Program Overview

The Europubhealth+ programme is an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree that has been recognized as a Master of excellence by the European Commission since 2006. Seven renowned European universities are collaborating to deliver the Europubhealth+ Master’s course. The programme now enjoys a vibrant international network of public health professionals and academics, and more than 435 graduates of 86 different nationalities.

Europubhealth+ is aimed at students with a strong interest in applied public health. Their academic background may be inhealth/medical sciences (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, veterinary, biology), social sciences (sociology, economics, psychology, anthropology, geography, political sciences), law, management or engineering.

With the Europubhealth+ programme you are choosing:

• to live abroad : during 2 years, you will live and study in at least 2 European countries and benefit from the support of experienced teams in each Higher Education Institution
• global health and intercultural work through multicultural teamwork, problem-based learning and a mandatory internship or practicum
• a large network in public health composed of academics and professionals with high expertise in the field as well as international students and alumni.

Once you graduate from Europubhealth+, you will be able to:

• analyse and address the determinants of health problems from a population perspective
• propose, plan, implement and evaluate culturally appropriate, evidence-based policies and interventions for the effective improvement of population health in international, national and local contexts.

Combinations of pathways offered within the 2-year course

As a Europubhealth+ student, you choose a pathway in a minimum of two different partner countries of the consortium located in Europe. According to your language skills, you can do your first year in English at the University of Sheffield (UK), at the University College Dublin (Ireland), in Spanish at the University of Granada (Spain) or in French at the University of Liege (Belgium) to acquire core competencies in public health.

Your second year of study has to be done in a different country according to your specialisation choice and language skills, that is to say, either at Maastricht University (The Netherlands) in English, the Jagellonian University (Poland) in English, at the EHESP of Rennes (France) in English or French according to the specialisation chosen or at the University of Granada (Spain) in Spanish.

At the end of each academic year, all Europubhealth+ students participate in a joint Integration Module at EHESP in Rennes France (in English) for three weeks.

Awarded Degrees

Graduates from Europubhealth+ receive a double (two) master's degree composed of:

A master's degree from their Year 1 institution:

• University of Granada "Master Europeo en Salud Publica" or
• University of Sheffield "Master of Public Health" or
• University College Dublin - National University of Ireland "Master of Public Health" or
• University of Liege "Master en Sciences de la Santé Publique"

A master's degree from their Year 2 institution :

• JU Krakow "Magister in the field of Public Health" or
• EHESP "Master International de Santé Publique" or "Master mention Santé Publique - spécialité Promotion de la Santé et Prévention" or
• EASP - University of Granada "Master Europeo en Salud Publica" or
• Maastricht University "Master of Science Leadership in European Public Health".

Both official national degrees are completed by a Europubhealth+ certificate of achievement and a joint diploma supplement , detailing the chosen pathway, marks and grading scales.

Participation Costs

Participation costs for the EUROPUBHEALTH+ programme for 2024 intake are as follow:

• 16.000 € for the two years of study for Non-European students
• 11.000 € for the two years of study for European students*.

• European Students are citizens of the 28 member states of the European Union and Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey and Serbia.

  The participation fee includes:

  • Enrolment in all the teaching units and modules and access to related educational resources
  • Access to library, document centers and related services
  • Examination, diploma and certificate
  • Social events during integration modules in Rennes

The participation fee does not include accommodation, food, international travel, travel on-site or visa costs.

Teaching Languages

There are 1 to 3 teaching languages depending on the pathways. You only have to be proficient in the languages suitable for the chosen mobility combination, either:

• English
• Or English + French
• Or English + Spanish
• Or English + Spanish + French

Mandatory copies of language proficiency tests meeting the minimum admission requirements must be provided when applying (more information  here ). We recommend candidates to plan language tests as soon as possible.

Application Deadline

There will be three rounds of applications for the 2024 intake:

24th January 2024 (23:00 pm CET): results released mid-March

27th March 2024 (23:00 pm CET): results released mid-May

7th May 2024 (23:00 pm CET): results released mid-June; recommended for European students only or students who do not need a visa.

For visa reasons, we strongly recommend applicants who will need a visa to study in their first-year country to apply before the 27th of March 2024.

We highly advise applicants seeking financial support (grants, loans) to submit their applications as early as possible, taking into account the requirements of the funding institutions.

NB: European applicants going to the University of Sheffield will need a visa.

Funding your Studies

Since Erasmus Mundus scholarships will not be available for the 2024-2026 cohort, we highly encourage applicants to explore national and local funding opportunities. Europubhealth Students and Alumni Association (EPHSA) provide tips and testimonies to future candidates.

You can find more information on the following page: Funding Opportunities.

European Public Health Master

Seven renowned European universities, all recognized as centres of excellence in public health higher education, are collaborating to deliver Europubhealth+.

In addition to the award of a double Master’s degree , students will get to study in at least 2 different countries, in up to 3 languages (English, Spanish and French).

Emphasizing at its core the urgent need to build sustainable health systems while addressing health inequalities, Europubhealth+ will keep providing multidisciplinary training in a unique multicultural environment. The consortium will be greatly supported in this endeavor by an exceptional network of associated partners representing public health services, international organizations, NGOs and higher education institutions from Europe and beyond.

The Europubhealth+ Master programme has been recognized by the European Commission as "Master of excellence" since 2006 and it was awarded the Best Practice Award for Excellence in Public Health Education and Training by ASPHER in 2018.

More than 435 graduates from 86 different nationalities now form a strong interdisciplinary and international network of public health professionals, which only intends to grow further.

Coordinating Institution

• EHESP School of Public Health - Rennes (France)

The EHESP School of Public Health was created in 1945 to provide France with an outstanding, internationally recognized School of Public Health. It is a public institution with a dual role of education and research in public health and social welfare. It encourages synergies between public health and management cultures.

The EHESP is the coordinating institution of the Europubhealth+ consortium. It will be delivering to Europubhealth+ students:

• an integration module (3 weeks) in English language at the end of each academic year on its main campus in Rennes.
• a second year specialisation in " Health Promotion and Prevention " in French language in Rennes.
• two second year specialisations in " Environemental and Occupational Health Sciences " and " Advanced Biostatistics and Epidemiology " in English language in Rennes.

Partners

• Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP) - University of Granada, Spain
• School of Medicine and Population Health - University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
• École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique (EHESP) - Rennes, France
• Institute of Public Health - Jagiellonian University Medical College of Krakow, Poland
• Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences - Maastricht University, The Netherlands
• School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science - University College Dublin, Ireland
• Faculty of Medicine - University of Liege, Belgium

Associated Partners

(not delivering degree)

• Public Health England, Leeds (United Kingdom)
• National Institute of Public health - National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw (Poland)
• Sante Publique France, Paris (France)
• International Association of National Public Health Institutes, Paris (France)
• European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies - WHO European Center for Health Policy, Brussels (Belgium)
• ASPHER - Association of Schools of Public Health in the European region, Brussels (Belgium)
• ESPUM – School of Public Health of the University of Montreal (Canada)
• Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
• ISALUD University, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
• Karolinska Institute, Stockholm (Sweden)
• School of Public Health - National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, Managa (Nicaragua)
• School of Public Health - University of Ghana, Accra (Ghana)