The health crisis caused by COVID-19 reminded us of the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to population health issues. This is precisely what the specialized Master’s program at the Pasteur-Cnam-EHESP School of Public Health offers.
The program includes:
- A core curriculum, from October to December, covering fundamental public health subjects: ethics, epidemiology, biostatistics, medical anthropology, health economics, health policy analysis, global health, and health security.
- Specialized courses, from January to May, to be chosen from:
- Infectious risk (coordinator Arnaud Fontanet).
- Risks, environment, work, and chronic diseases (coordinator Laura Témime).
- Biostatistics and bioinformatics (coordinator Ndèye Niang-Keita).
- Health policy design and management (coordinator Stéphane Besançon).
- An internship from June to November.
- A thesis and defense in December.
The courses for the "Infectious risk" specialization are organized at the Institut Pasteur as part of the Epidemiology and Public Health Unit and the Microbiology Unit. The courses offered are:
- Analysis of data by STATA: 3 sessions STATA1, STATA2, STATA3 (in French)
- Creation and management of databases (in French)
- Introductory course in the R software (in French)
- Medical mycology (in English)
- Modeling of infectious diseases (in English)
- Spreading of infectious agents and risk asessment (in French)
- Tuberculosis (in English)
- Vaccinology (in English)
As part of the new Pasteur 2030 Strategic Plan, starting in September 2024, the following new courses are added:
- Climate change and population health (in French)
- Clinical trial methodology (in French)
- Mother-child dyad: current evidence in a global perspective (in English)
- Vaccine epidemiology (in English)
The specialized Master’s in Public Health is a Level I diploma accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles. It is aimed at a broad audience of individuals holding a Master's degree (bac +5) from various fields or a Bachelor's degree (bac +4) with professional experience in public health: doctors, veterinarians, pharmacists, biologists, members of health agencies, NGO and/or international organization staff, development specialists, personnel from the agri-food and pharmaceutical industries, chemists, local government agents, public health engineers, geographers, hospital administrators, economists, sociologists, professionals, or students nearing the end of their studies.
Find a detailed description of the specialized Master’s program and its commitment to the fight against COVID-19 on the Pasteur-Cnam-EHESP School of Public Health website.