PhD Public Health

Public health is an emerging field it keeps people healthy and prevent them from illness in societies. Instead of treating just a single person, it focuses on improving the health of whole groups of people by minimizing the disease or stoping them before they start. This field include hygiene epidemiology and disease prevention it mainly plays role in field work rather than office work. public health is the approach of preventing disease prolonging life and promotiong health.The main concern of public health is prevention of a disease. this field work by promotiong healthy behaviors preventing and controling diseases conducting research and influencing policies, public is about helping people to stay healthy and protecting them from threats to thier health. At the global level, there is a strong wave of advocacy for practicing evidence-based medicine and in that pursuit the academia is striving to produce high level research to generate evidence for improving health. For generating a credible body of knowledge and scientific evidence in publichealth, there is an increasing demand of experts in public health discipline in Pakistan; especially in the recent context of new infections, pandemics, epidemics, demographic transition, upsurge of old infections such as tuberculosis and the never-ending polio. Moreover, natural disasters such as earthquake and floods in Pakistan create a demand for trained and skilled public health workers to manage the disaster management programs of the government and those supported by international organizations

Core Courses

  • Population health science
  • biostatics
  • epidemiology
  • Public health leadership and system thinking
  • Public healh ethics
  • Advanced health system research

Eligibility Criteria

  • Minimum CGPA requirement for admission in PhD program is CGPA of 3.0 (out of 4.0 in semester system) or first division (in the annual system) in the most recent degree obtained, whether such degree is obtained in Pakistan or from a foreign universities.
  •  The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) test administered by the Education Testing Service with minimum of 70% marks (If international, 60%marks would be acceptable).

 

Scope

The goal of the PhD program is to develop the superior level of skilled human resources for developing the scientific basis for disease prevention and control and health promotion, demonstrating an excellence in research, service, and academic leadership. The scope of public health is to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in society by

  • Preventing disease
  • Promoting healthy lifestyle
  • Monitoring health trends
  • Health education
  • Creating policies
  • Responding to health emergencies
  • Addresdding health dispaitities

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