Department of Public Health
Starting in 2013, the Department of Public Health of the North East University Bangladesh has been providing world standard quality education in Public Health. With knowledgeable and skillful faculty members and requisite educational and training facilities, the department is conferring Master of Public Health degree to health related professionals, and is producing efficient and effective service providers in the field of public health.
 The department is continuously working to assimilate diversity and complexity of professional practices with creativity to meet the solutions to the current and upcoming challenges in protecting and promoting health of the population.
 Vision of the Department of Public Health:
To create public health professionals as leaders and innovators equipped with modern state-of the-art knowledge, skills and expertise that will actively pursue for achieving healthy people in healthy communities nationally and internationally.
 Mission of the Department of Public Health:
Our mission is informed by the following values:
M1-Excellence:Â In all our programs we strive for a high degree of excellence, measured by external metrics and standards whenever available.
M2-Synergy:Â Public health is not a single discipline but a collection of disciplines, which enrich each other; we strive to promote this synergistic approach in both our educational research and community endeavors.
M3-Support: We design our educational programs and support systems to facilitate career success - whether it is initiating a new career, advancement in a current career, or attainment of a leadership position.
M4-Equity and inclusiveness:Â In our all efforts we seek to promote health equity and justice for people and populations everywhere.
Master of Public Health (MPH) is the flagship program of the Department of Public Health.
This program aims at imparting training for the multi-disciplinary professionals engaged in public health activities to provide required knowledge and skills to analyze problems, to conduct evidence-generating research and to develop appropriate policy and programme for improvement of community health. The programme further aims to promote improvements in the health of the populations with elimination of health disparities across the life-course through excellence in education, research, community empowerment locally, nationally, and globally.
The program prepares students to become leading public health professionals capable of addressing current global health problems through multidisciplinary approaches that apply the latest scientific knowledge. Students join faculty on the cutting edge of science, research and practice in public health. Our MPH course is conducted with highly experienced and qualified faculty members imparting training of the students in the field as well as in our public health laboratory.
Our MPH program offers students several options for completing their degree. Classes are conducted on Friday & Saturday for the convenient of students as we expect most of them are engaged in various professional services.
At present, the MPH program is of 50 credits, and is to be completed in 18 months divided in three 6-monthly semesters. Apart from public health related courses, there is a course Practicum, which is to be completed in the 2nd semester. This course is meant to individually obtain practical knowledge by placing each student in health-related institutions for gathering in-depth field knowledge. Moreover, there is the course Dissertation, which is a highly valued full-scale research work, where each student should develop and complete a research protocol individually in the 3rd semester. Presently we are also offering students two major areas: ‘Public Health Nutrition’ and ‘Reproductive and Child Health’ as optional areas to satisfy diversified interests of the students.
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