Duration: 2 years

Fee Paying: No

Admission Requirements

At least a Second class Honours (Lower Division) Bachelor's Degree in the appropriate biological Sciences. Depending on the candidate's background and desired specialty, the Department reserves the right to conduct a selection test and interview whenever necessary.

Objectives

This M.Sc. aims to bridge the disciplines of epidemiology, laboratory sciences and public health and policy for training and retraining of students who wish to work directly on a multidisciplinary practical approach to the control of infectious diseases, and to equip students with specialized skills that will facilitate a career in the control of infectious diseases as staff of health ministries, health Departments, national or international disease control agencies, aid organizations or universities.

Graduation Requirements

To obtain the MSc Degree Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases, the student must fulfil all of the following conditions:

• Pass at least 120 credits of course work.
• Conduct a research project, submit and defend a dissertation on the outcome of the project publicly.
• Satisfy any other requirements of postgraduate studies that Senate may prescribe.

Outcomes

At the end of the course students should be able to:

• investigate the transmission of endemic and epidemic infections;
• select appropriate methods of control;
• design, implement and evaluate co-ordinate control methods;
• assess constraints of local public health delivery systems;
• manage available resources in the context of the control of infectious diseases; and focus their efforts on particular geographical regions or specific diseases

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