Advt. No. 1632
Date: 20 April 2010
Advertisement for Admission into
Masters in Public Health (MPH) Degree Programme
The Ravenshaw University, the oldest institution of
higher learning in Orissa, in collaboration with Asian Institute of Public Health (AIPH) Bhubaneswar, one of the
premier Public Health Institutes of South-East Asia, are enrolling students
into the MPH degree programme for the academic session 2010-2012.
Currently, there is a critical need for and acute shortage of skilled human
resources to support and improve the public health of
Even in the advanced western countries such
as
In order to meet the above local, national, and
global needs, the MPH programme at the
Students
in this programme will complete 45 credits of course work and 15 credits of
research in a topic of their choice under direct faculty mentorship. They will
be taught by
Important Data about
the Admission Process and the MPH Programme
Eligibility
Bachelors degree in medical and paramedical sciences
(MBBS, AYUSH, BVSc, Pharmacy, Nursing, etc.) or Masters degree in Life/Social
& Behavioral Sciences or equivalent degree in any other allied stream.
Application
Fees and Form
A
demand draft for Rs. 500 (Five
Hundred) only, drawn in favour of:
Ravenshaw-AIPH
MPH Programme, payable at
Must
accompany each Application Form (down-loadable
at ‘Application Form MPH’ )
Last date for Receiving Application : June 30,
2010
Address for mailing the Application Form
& Draft :
Convenor
Ravenshaw-AIPH MPH Programme
Asian Institute of Public Health
N5 / 421
Entrance (on-line) Examination and Interviews
June 25, 2010. (if needed, June26 as well )
Commencement
of Academic Session: July
19, 2010.
Course Fee : Rs 2
Lakhs per year
Total number
of seats : 60
More information can be found at http://www.ravenshawuniversity.ac.in and http://www.aiph.ac.in .
For specific questions, please contact MPH@aiph.ac.in
or call 0674-6574656, 092383-56139, 94370-94236
Examples of Courses for MPH Programme
1. Foundation
of Public Health
This is an introductory survey course,
which will ensure that all MPH students, within their first full year of study,
are exposed to the fundamental concepts and theories which provide the basis
for the body of knowledge in the field of public health. This course will prepare students to work in
public health with a sound theoretical, conceptual and historical basis for
their work. It will also ground them
with a practical understanding of public health.
2. Epidemiology:
Theory and Applications
The overall course goal is to help
students: learn epidemiologic and public health approaches in prevention and
control of health problems, gain quantitative analytical skills, understand
strengths and weaknesses of different epidemiologic study designs, interpret
public health data and epidemiology research findings, and research
ethics.
4. Health
Behavior
The purpose of this course
is to study the theoretical foundations of health behavior. Students will develop an understanding of the
determinants of health behavior, the models and theories that provide a
framework for researching, predicting, and understanding health behavior, and
the strategies employed to bring about behavioral changes for health and
disease prevention. They will understand social cognitive theory, diffusion of
innovation, self efficacy, cognitive dissonance, health belief model, and
trans-theoretical models.
5.
Public Health, Environment, and Society
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to
environmental/ occupational factors including biological, physical and chemical
factors that affect the health of human communities.
6. Critical
Issues in Global Health
In
recent years, the boundaries among countries have become less defined and
people from all corners of the world now feel the effect of globalization. This
affects health, economy, culture, and the society. The changing political
environment in a country also plays an important role. This course will provide
the students with an essential understanding of the global health issues to
prepare them for further studies and a career in global health.
This course is designed to be an
introduction to the health systems in
The purpose of this course is to develop a
critical understanding of the theory, concepts and practical issues relating to
health promotion. The students will develop professional competences to analyze
the need for prevention and health promotion in any setting. They will be able
to design, implement, and evaluate preventive or health promotion programmes.
9.
Health Management
The objective if this course is to
provide some of the basic and practical skill sets required in public health
management. While this course is also offered under a separate certificate programme
to technical, administrative, and support personnel, it is also considered a
mandatory course for MPH degree students. Students will learn how to build
leadership qualities and communicate effectively.
10. Health Economics
Understanding the basic principles of
economics helps in effective management and governance of the health care
sector. This course is designed for non-economists to learn and apply different
tools in managing thiscomplex sector.
11.
Health Policy
To impart a general understanding of
the logic and process of public policy-making in health. This course will
enable students to undertake preliminary analysis of health policy issues.
12.
Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
To teach basic principles of infectious
disease epidemiology, including outbreak investigation and an understanding of
the transmission and control of infectious diseases.
13. Epidemiology
of Chronic Diseases
To make the students understand the
importance of non-communicable/chronic (NCD) diseases, their trends,
distribution and modalities to control NCDs.
14.
Applied Research in Public Health
This course will assist
candidates to develop the basic skills to conduct applied research to address
contemporary problems in public health. The course will emphasize proposal
writing, data collection, research design, statistical analysis, computer
application, and writing of research reports.
Courses available
at the
1. Introduction
to Public Health Informatics
The overall course goal is to help
students: introduce to informatics and different informatics categories,
overview of public health informatics, its concepts, principles, and
application, public health planning, public health information systems and
evaluation.
2. Overview
of Public Health Information Systems
The course goal is to help students:
introduction to information architecture, overview and advantages of different
types of databases, data standards in public health informatics, privacy,
confidentiality and security of public health, describe global public health
information systems and introduction and evaluation of risk assessment
information systems,
3. Advanced Public Health Informatics
The overall course goal is to help students: overview
clinical decision support systems, geographic Information Systems, public
health surveillance systems, barriers to implementation of Public health
information systems and future applications of Public health informatics
4. Computer
mediated Health Education and Health Promotion
The overall course goal is to help students: Web based
approaches to health education and health promotion, role of health literacy
and varied learning needs of public health consumers, and different
stakeholders, information retrieval, and quality and content of health
information on the internet, public health messages.
Course
offered at the AIPH Center for Translational Research
1. Good Clinical Practice (GCP) in
Clinical Research
Course
Objective:
1. To understand international
rules on medical ethics
2. To familiarize scholars
in the Indian and international drug development process
3. To equip attendees with
tools to carry out different phases of clinical trials
4. To provide insights into
monitoring, data management, and reporting requirements for conducting studies
of the highest quality meeting national and international standards
Topics to be covered : Drug discovery
and development process, Pre-clinical studies,
Phase I, II, III, IV clinical trials,
Ethics in clinical research- historic perspective, International conference on
harmonization (ICH), Good clinical practice (GCP) guidelines, IRB/IEC role and
responsibilities, Investigator’s role and responsibilities, Sponsor’s role and
responsibilities, Regulatory authority’s role and responsibilities, Clinical
data management overview, Designing protocols and CRFs, and Reporting of
SAEs/AEs. This course will also include mock trials, audits, and reporting.
Course
offered at the AIPH Center for Surveillance and Emerging Diseases
1.Surveillance, Epidemic Preparedness
and Response
Epidemics and outbreaks pose serious
threats to the already weakened health systems in low and middle income
countries. Apart from the morbidity and
mortality, they also have long-term social and economic consequences.
Therefore, it becomes essential for the managers working in the health systems
to know how to identify, plan, and respond to epidemics. Topics in this course
will cover principles of disease surveillance, methods of designing a new
surveillance system, IDSP–Disease Surveillance in India/OMDSS in Orissa,
methods to formulate a response to a “new” or “unknown” disease, principles of
disease transmission, outbreak management and control, emerging and re-emerging
communicable diseases, laboratory-based surveillance systems, analytical
methods in outbreak investigation, epidemic preparedness and response, and case
studies.
Faculty for the MPH Programme
Surendra K. Mishra, MSc, PGDA, DCS
Health
systems, behavioural sciences and communication, reproductive health
Ashish Joshi, MD, MPH
Public
health informatics, health outcomes research, design of multi-component
interventions
P N Padmanabhan, PhD, FAAASc
Nutrition,
non-invasive methods for monitoring gastrointestinal health, cancer prevention
Maternal
Health, health systems
Pinaki Panigrahi, MD, PhD
Epidemiology, field surveillance, human research protection, clinical trials
P. K.
Senapati, MD
Health systems, health care delivery and administration
S. Ramanathan,MPhil
Health
economics and finance, reporuductive health, gender and equity
Pritish
Nanda, PGDHM, MPH
Health communication, hospital management, social mobilization, programme
management
E.
Epidemiology, financial management
HPV epidemiology, cervical cancer, cancer vaccines
Prasanna Nair,
MD, MPH
Maternal
and child health, epidemiology, HIV/AIDS
Health communication, community-based participatory research
International health, programme
evaluation
J. Glenn Morris Jr, MD, MPH&TM
Infectious
diseases, Cholera, emerging and re-emerging diseases
Ira
H. Gewolb, MD
Newborn health, biostatistics
Judith
A. Johnson, PhD
Infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance, clinical microbiology
Magda
G. Peck, ScD
Leadership development and
practice, childhood well being evaluation
Chandran
Achutan, PhD
Occupational and
environmental health
Hala
Azzam, PhD, MPH
Workforce development and
training, field assessments, HIV/AIDS
Hrishikesh Chakraborty, DrPH
Biostatistics,
epidemiology, cluster randomized trials
James
Sherry, MD,PhD
Health policy, international health
Jaime
Gofin, MD, PhD
Programme evaluation, community-oriented primary care
Li-Wu Chen, MHSA, PhD
Health
economics, cost-effectiveness analysis, health care utilization by underserved
population
KM Monirul Islam, MBBS, PhD
Epidemiology,
international health, development of surveillance
system and evaluation
Ge Lin, PhD
GIS and spatial statistics, statistic methods for defining and
quantifying their spatial signals