Innovation in Public Health | Courses & research

In addition to the compulsory courses of the Master's in Health Sciences, you will follow additional courses within the specialisation in Innovation in Public Health (IPH) and you will end your Master’s with your final master’s assignment. In total, you will collect 60 EC within one year.

European Credit Transfer System

Student workload at Dutch universities is expressed in EC, also named ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System), widely used throughout the European Union. In the Netherlands, each credit represents 28 hours of work. The recognition of credits is at the discretion of your Master's.

structure

Master’s courses Compulsory for all students	15 EC	Health Economic Modelling Stakeholder Preference Elicitation and Decision Support Data Science
Specialisation courses Compulsory for the specialisation IPH	15 EC	Public Health Innovations PH: Dynamics in Policy, Law and Regulation Citizen Science and Public Involvement
Master’s assignment	30 EC	You will finish your Master’s in Health Sciences with your master’s assignment.
Total EC	60EC

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master's thesis

You will complete your Master’s by writing your master’s thesis. The choice of your graduation subject is largely up to you. You could come up with your own proposal, or you could connect with ongoing research at UT. You could, for example, be dealing with the issue of decentralisation in the Dutch municipal health service, or you could conduct research into the pros and cons of the Electronic Patient Dossier (EPD). You can complete (part of) your graduation project at an external organisation as well. This is a great way for you to combine your academic skills with hands-on experience!

Your master’s thesis could involve undertaking projects such as:

How can public management of large-scale health crises be improved?
In what ways can patient organisations contribute to secondary healthcare prevention in chronic diseases?
How effective are current information interventions aimed at bonding between parents and child in the first 1,000 days after conception and how can interventions be improved?

Career perspectives