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The Public Health program offers you a Northern European perspective on salient aspects of public health, such as prevention, health promotion and quality improvement, an examination of the challenges of health policy making, prioritization, health economics, and the ability to derive comparative insight from analysis of different national health care systems.

Student Profile

The Public Health program is designed for students exploring career opportunities in public health, either from a policy, sociology, or health sciences background.

Core Course

This course aims at providing you with a solid knowledge of the provision and organization of public health in Northern Europe, and of the historical, social, economics, and political background of the present health care systems. This course also explores what determines health, the priority setting and the relationship involved in policy making and the provision of health services.

Study Tours

The study tours, which are covered by the DIS tuition, form an integral part of the core course. The short study tour aims to familiarize you with the health care system in Denmark, with a focus on health care administration and the role of the general practitioner in Denmark. The long study tour aims to compare and contrast the role, function, and organization of the health care systems of Nordic counties, Denmark and Finland, with the health care systems of post-communist Estonia and Latvia. Through visits with general practitioners, policy-making institutions, and health care interest groups, the study tours address the challenges Europe faces in relation to health care due to rising costs, aging populations, and immigration.

Elective Courses

In addition to the required core course, you are free to select any combination of courses from the DIS curriculum. Please click here for a full course overview. If you want to take some of your electives in the field of public health and health care, check out courses listed under Public Health, Pre-Medicine, Biology, and Biotechnology.

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The professors are the course. They are informative, make a great team, and are very concerned about what we are learning. They do not simply present material; they want us to have an appreciation for what we say. The core course is awesome - it will be a very fond memory. This program really prepares you to apply knowledge in the ‘real world’.

Corinne Larsen Brown University
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Public Health Research Project

The Health Delivery and Prioritization in Northern Europe core course is taught by Danes working at various public health institutions in Copenhagen. Special to this course, the semester research project features a chance to meet and interact with important parts of the Danish health care system.

You will work hand in hand with Danish health institutions, framing and designing a research question relevant for the Northern European health care systems. You will then have the opportunity to perform independent research in that area, collaborating with the health care institution.

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