Public health study field deals with the health of the community and aims to prevent diseases and manage them by organized actions, information sources and education efforts. It deals with physical and mental health, social well-being improvement particularly in these areas such as waste disposal, water supply, food safety or water pollution. This study field has multidisciplinary approaches such as biostatistics, health services and epidemiology. It also deals with these sub-fields: community health, behavioral health, health of economics, occupational health public policy and environmental health. Public health is important in developing world as well as developed countries.
The international interdisciplinary PhD program "Frontiers in Life Sciences" (French acronym: FdV, for Frontières du Vivant), established in 2006 aims at promoting research projects centered on an understanding of Life requiring the blending of different disciplines. The graduate school recruits students from all over the world that were trained in any discipline (biology, physics, mathematics, computer science, medicine, ecology, agronomy...).
High-quality, accessible healthcare is a national priority. Through Walden’s Ph.D. in Health Services program, you can gain the skills and experience needed to help prepare you for leadership positions in healthcare administration and policy in a variety of public and private healthcare settings.
High-quality, accessible healthcare is a national priority. Through Walden’s Ph.D. in Health Services program, you can gain the skills and experience needed to help prepare you for leadership positions in healthcare administration and policy in a variety of public and private healthcare settings.
The HELENA Graduate School offers PhD projects in the following are: Diabetes and Lung Biology; Neuro and Stem Cell Biology; Infection, Immune and Tumor Biology; Epidemiology, Health Economics and Human Genetics; Radiation Research; Ecosystems Biology; Systems Biology, Biomedical Imaging and Structural Biology.
Dramatic changes in the nation’s healthcare delivery system, coupled with a national priority on disease prevention and healthy living, are prompting a greater demand for highly qualified public health leaders. With the Ph.D. in Public Health program, you can study current public health initiatives, explore what makes them successful, and discuss strategies for creating and leading your own initiatives.
The vision behind this doctoral program is not restricted to the labouring problems and to the directly productive citizens. The scope of the program is very inclusive: it includes the problems of everyone in any situation, either workers or users or visitors. It is related and concerns to everyone. Children, young and aged people, unemployed and retired persons are not excluded.
VU University Amsterdam
The Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences (FALW) has several Bachelor and Master programs and has a research focus on health & life, environmental and earth sciences. Research facilities are excellent and there is a strong collaboration with international top research institutes.
Maastricht University
The School of Health Professions Education (SHE) offers a distance PhD programme, wherein participants do research on topics in medical education in their own educational setting. The PhD students receive distance supervision from highly experienced and internationally acknowledged educational researchers associated with SHE. The research results in a PhD thesis.
University of Limerick
This is a full time three year professional course, leading to a Doctoral qualification in clinical psychology. Graduates are qualified to work as Clinical Psychologists. The programme is designed around the Accreditation Guidelines of the Psychological Society of Ireland for postgraduate courses in Clinical Psychology.
University of Bristol
Research in the Centre for Hearing and Balance Studies focuses on hearing and balance and reflects our interest in informing professional practice in supporting intervention and treatment, to the benefit of people using audiology and other health services.
Newcastle University
MPhil supervision is available in the following areas: Ageing, health and society; Chronic disease epidemiology and the health of populations in transition; Economics of safety, health, environment and risk; Paediatric and life-course epidemiology; Environmental epidemiology; Public health research; Public health nutrition research; Health technology and human relations; Social gerontology and brain ageing; Effective practice and organisation of care; Clinical trials; Development and disability; Risk communication and decision making; Oral health services research.
Brunel University
Research in the School of Health Sciences and Social Care is located within University Research Centres and University Interdisciplinary Research centres. Our research ranges from the micro level (cell and chromosome biology to the macro level (health and social policy).