Core competencies in public health (57 ECTS)

University College Dublin, Ireland

Compulsory modules

  • Fundamentals of epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Data management & statistics with SPSS
  • Non-communicable disease epidemiology
  • Communicable disease epidemiology
  • Public health practice & policy
  • Health promotion
  • Health economics & management
  • Sociology and social policy
  • Introduction to environmental health

Elective modules (to be chosen in coherence with 2nd year specialisation): One Health; Risk perception, communication, behavioural change; Systematic reviews and meta-analysis; International health; Nutrition epidemiology; Genetic epidemiology; Biostatistics II; Graduate teaching assistant; Design and analysis of clinical trials.

N.B.: Minor changes may occur in the detailed programme from one intake to another.