M.Phil Public Health

The MPhil programme shall be for students who do not meet the requirement for direct admission into the PhD programme. Candidates who score between 3.0 and 3.49 on a 5.0 scale or 50-54% at the MPH programme may be admitted into the MPhil programme. The MPhil programme shall run for two years as follows:

The MPhil candidate will be expected to complete the first year (two semesters) of PhD coursework.
In the second year, the MPhil candidate will be required to also complete the MPhil Seminar course as well as the MPhil Dissertation.

The MPhil must be completed with a minimum of 60% for the candidate to be eligible for direct admission into the PhD in Public Health programme.

LIST OF COURSES FOR MPHIL IN PUBLIC HEALTH

COURSE CODE	COURSE TITLE	1st Year		2nd Year
		1ST SEM	2ND SEM	1ST SEM	2ND SEM
GEDS 901 GEDS 911 GEDS 912	GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENT Personal and Family Wholeness Research Proposal and Writing Advanced Research Design	2 2	2
PHFC 911	CORE COURSES History, Principles and Practice of Public Health & Primary Health Care	3
PHFC 913	Advanced Epidemiology, Disease Control and Surveillance	3
PHFC 915	Advanced Public Health Nutrition	3
PHFC 918	Advanced Research Methods in Public Health		3
PHFC 919	Intermediate Biostatistics for Public Health	3
PHFC 922	Applied Biostatistics in Public Health		3
PHFC 926	Advanced Environmental and Occupational Health		3
PHHP 928	Advanced Health Promotion: Concepts and Issues		3
PHFC 916	Bio-ethical Issues in Public Health		3
PHHP 880 PHHP 890	MPhil Seminar MPhil Dissertation			3 (8)	8
	TOTAL CREDITS (44)	16	17	3	8

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