Mini-Master of Public Health Catalogue

Public Health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private communities, and individuals.

Programme Description

This programme is a 3 months (12 weeks) online certificate course designed for persons who intend to acquire skills that are necessary for the basic public health understanding or practice to catalyse entities that may help curb health problems for individuals and populations.

Programme Objectives

1. To educate learners on the basic principles and practice of public health

2. To produce graduates who would improve access to healthcare through the evolution of public health and related entities in their contexts of influence

3. To equip learners for future professional development, self-actualization, and practice management

4. To educate learners on the ability to cooperate with individuals, teams or groups and specialists in population health care and appropriate referral

Teaching Target

The teaching target of the Mini-Master of Public Health (mMPH) programme is to help learners to grasp the basic knowledge and skills needed to master the basic techniques of public health science and practice, manage a public health facility, and establish the foundation for a sound managerial and capitalist entrepreneurial public health engagement enterprise.

Courses

CODE	CREDITS	TITLE
PC2-011	3	Foundations of public health
PC2-012	3	Health Systems, Law & Policy
PC2-013	3	Epidemiology and Disease Control
PC2-014	3	Environmental and Occupational Health
PC2-015	3	Health Promotion and Communication
PC2-016	3	Health Economics and Quantitative Methods in Public Health
PC2-017	6	mMPH Capstone (Practicum/Field Work)
Other components of the mMPH curriculum
RL00	0	GRIT
RL01	0	Developing your personal career strategy
RL02	0	Public Health Business
WBN01	0	We are the Future
WBN02	0	Advocacy in Health Care
WBN03	0	WASH
WBN04	0	Designing and Developing Healthcare Facilities & Programmes
WBN05	0	Environmental Impact Assessment
WBN06	0	Diarrhoea Transmission and Control
WBN07	0	Stress and our Health and Illness States
WBN08	0	Behavioural Dimensions in the Concept of Health
WBN09	0	Nutritional Factors in Health and Illness States
WBN10	0	Public Health Informatics
WBN11	0	Communication in Health Education Programmes
WBN12	0	Anxiety Disorders
WBN16	0	Working in Resource-Limited Settings

Programme Plans

There are three (3) plans in this programme – Regular Plan, Career Boost Plan, and Business Plan. The details of each plan are given below. You should choose the plan that you intend to run during your application. Notice that enrolment fee differs with each plan (https://orapuh.org/fees).

How to Picture this Programme

There are a number of ways to picture the Mini-Master of Public Health experience; a few of them are:

As a core training/practice programme
Chances are that you feel this programme is not too related to your career. But that is not true. In fact, the programme is at the heart of your future practice. You cannot practice effectively without considering the impact of your practice on the health of the public.
As a programme in entrepreneurial capitalism
After taking this programme, you could start your own public health business and build it until it becomes a profitable and enduring business that is sustainably prominent in the marketplace
As a programmee in Administration
The knowledge and skills that you gain from this programme could help you to enhance viability, productivity, and sustainability in your present workplace or other facilities that you manage
As a programme in Business Administration Business strategies and methods are freely taught throughout each module of the programme. The knowledge and skills you acquire during the programme would help you to begin and/or boost your business or career and optimise them to maximise profit and minimise loss
As a core science programme
Public health’s principles and practices are predicated on scientific evidence and methods. Taking this programme stimulates scientific reasoning in you
As a programme in teaching
The programme prepares you to teach others these principles that you learn taking the programme. All you need to do is adapt the teaching to the peculiarities of your context. Today, you are being taught Public Health, tomorrow, you could be teaching others!
As a programmee in research
This programme stimulates your appetite for research.
As a programme in learning to reason critically
The challenging presentations of scenarios in lectures catalyze critical reasoning in learners. The field practicum trips keep students thinking and desiring more experiences. Weekly lectures also stimulate the same feelings in students.
As a programmee in learning to generalize
Public health is a microcosm of other bigger medical/health concerns. Managing a public health facility effectively inspires the trust that one could manage bigger facilities. This impression is a true feeling. This programme encourages you to think along that line.

Projected Prospects after Taking this Course

After taking this course, a learner should be able to

Manifest increased dental public health knowledge and skills
Land a new job or promotion, or enhance their CV
Possess sharpened skills
Attract a salary raise
Start a public health business/organization or improve the revenue generation, organization, and operations of an existing facility
Enhance the operations of their own business/organization or their present work place
Use their knowledge and skills to manage any health facility or project
Help society better or give back to society