Master · Cycle 2
Master of Public Health — Polyvalent Specialisation
The Master of Public Health Polyvalent specialisation (SPP) trains professionals able to identify health priorities, design and lead public health interventions, and evaluate results with a research and problem-solving approach.
2 years · 4 semesters French UAC-accredited degree
Programme objectives
The Master of Public Health Polyvalent specialisation (SPP) aims to develop essential competencies enabling learners to:
- 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 work in national public health programmes, NGOs, local authorities and cooperation agencies.
- Polyvalent public health officer
- Health promotion officer
- Health intervention coordinator
- Health planning adviser
Programme content
This is a full Master's cycle delivered over four semesters of 30 academic credits under the LMD framework. The curriculum covers:
- Learning process in public health, epidemiology and nutrition
- Descriptive and analytical statistics
- Analytical epidemiological studies
- Organisation of the health system
- IT applied to public health and epidemiology
- Documentary research and community diagnosis
- Communication, information, education and communication with media and the public
- Essential medicines and pharmacopoeia
- Health policy and health development plans
- Applied health research
- Organisation of health resources
- Food and nutrition in health
- Coordination and monitoring of health project and programme implementation
- Health evaluation
- Quality of care and health services
- Food and nutrition
- Occupational health
- Comprehensive family health approach
- Health systems evaluation
- Health information systems
- Systemic approach to human health (Eco-health)
- Prevention of neglected diseases
- Communication with media and the public
- Emergency health situation management approach
- Climate change and health
- Organisation of mental health care
- Strategies against non-communicable diseases
- Leadership and management of health services
- Strategies against communicable diseases
- Public health research methodology
- Scientific article writing and dissemination of research results
- Applied research approach: protocol writing and ethical aspects
- Applied research approach: professional internship
- Research report writing and defence
- Professional internship
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.