Master · Cycle 2
Master of Public Health — Hospital Hygiene and Patient Safety
The MPH in Hospital Hygiene and Patient Safety (HHSP) trains professionals able to ensure infection prevention and control, patient safety and quality-of-care improvement in health facilities.
2 years · 4 semesters French UAC-accredited degree
Programme objectives
The Master's in Hospital Hygiene and Patient Safety aims to develop essential competencies enabling learners to:
- acquire knowledge in infection prevention and control;
- contribute to identifying priority health problems and needs using statistical and epidemiological approaches;
- develop relevant health programmes, projects and initiatives using a problem-solving approach;
- coordinate and monitor activities, supervise and assess team performance, and evaluate the effects of a health intervention;
- conduct research activities arising from problems encountered in practice.
Career opportunities
Graduates ensure infection prevention and control, patient safety and quality of care in health facilities.
- Hospital hygiene / IPC focal point
- Patient safety officer
- Quality of care officer
- Hospital risk manager
Programme content
This is a full Master's cycle delivered over four semesters of 30 academic credits under the LMD framework. The curriculum covers:
- Foundations of hospital hygiene
- Microbiology applied to hospital hygiene
- Hospital epidemiology
- Research methodology and biostatistics
- Infection prevention and control (IPC)
- Sterilisation and disinfection
- Biomedical waste management
- Hospital environmental hygiene
- Patient safety
- Hospital risk management
- Quality of care management
- Leadership and management in hospital hygiene
- Professional internship
- Research project / thesis
Teaching organisation
Full Master's cycle over four semesters of 30 academic credits under the LMD framework (120 ECTS).
Admission requirements
- Holders of a BAC+4 or a Licence (LMD) in Health Sciences or a related field;
- Health professionals; works engineers; agricultural engineers; senior technicians in nursing and midwifery, public health and hygiene/sanitation;
Application file
- A pre-registration request letter;
- A motivation letter;
- A curriculum vitae;
- Two legalised copies of the baccalauréat certificate or equivalent
- Two legalised photocopies of higher diplomas and transcripts;
- Two legalised copies of authenticity and equivalence certificates for foreign diplomas issued by Benin's DGES
- Two copies of an English proficiency certificate (CEBELAE, TBC, BALC and other UAC-approved centres)
- Two legalised copies of the birth certificate;
- A legalised letter of commitment to cover training fees or a scholarship certificate;
- Three recommendation letters from supervisors and/or former professors;
- Receipt for application review fees payable to CUCA15,000 FCFA · CUCA · BJ6600100100000104 830808 · INSTITUT REGIONAL DE SANTE PUBLIQUE
- Receipt for application review fees payable to CUO2,000 FCFA · CUO · BJ6600100100000104 772220 · RECTORAT / PRODUITS ACCESSOIRES
- Two legalised copies of the passport or identity card
- Four identity photos less than 3 months old.