Master of Veterinary Public Health

 

The Master of Veterinary Public Health education is a post graduate part time master's programme dealing with control of contagious animal diseases and zoonosis, veterinary epidemiology, and animal health economics.

 

Besides a general knowledge in disease control and prevention, you will obtain competences to develop and implement methods and comprehensive strategies for surveillance and risk assessment, control, prevention and eradication of diseases in production animals – at the herd, regional, national and international level - and to further evaluate the economical consequences of different control strategies.

 

Target group:

The programme primarily addresses persons working with control of production animal diseases typically in the veterinary services, agricultural organizations for primary animal production (e.g. swine, cattle, poultry, fish, fur animals) or in the processing industry of food for human consumption, pharmaceutical industry or veterinary institutions involved in research and disease control.

 

The courses are planned as a mixture of lectures, exercises and independent studies. Each course is completed by submission and evaluation of a report and/or an examination.

 

We offer you guidance in all course reports and exercises. Also, the master project is completed under guidance of a supervisor employed at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

 

Modules and courses:

The master program contains 5 modules as follows:  

 

Module 1	Statistics for Veterinarians (9 ECTS credits, course number LFKM10186)
Module 2	Course 1: Veterinary Epidemiology, part 1 (compulsory, 6 ECTS credits, course number LFKM10189)	Course 2: Veterinary Epidemiology, part 2 (elective, 6 ECTS credits, course number LFKM10193)
Module 3	Course 1: Disease Outbreak Management (compulsory, 5 ECTS credits, course number LFKM10192)	Course 2: Disease Control and Dynamics (compulsory, 5 ECTS credits, course number LFKM10357)	Course 3: Quantitative Risk Assessment (compulsory, 5 ECTS credits, course number LFKM10197)
Module 4	Animal Health Economics  (compulsory, 5 ECTS credits, course number LFKM10195)
Module 5	Module 5 - Master Project (12-20 credits)

 

 

Admission requirements:

A BSc or MSc degree in veterinary medicine, human medicine, agricultural sciences, engineering or natural science is required – and at least two years of relevant full-time work experience after having completed the qualifying course of study.

 

If you wish to attend single modules the academic requirements can be deviated.

 

Good English language skills are imperative.

 

You can enrol in the programme at any time according to the application deadline for the next course if you complete courses in the order they are given.

  

Tuition fee:

The tuition fee for the whole programme is approximately 100,000 DKK. This price is for EU/EEA citizens and other citizens with a permanent residence permit in Denmark. If you are not an EU/EEA citizen, you will have to pay an extra fee of DKK 940 per ECTS credit (price per 16 September 2011). The prices are regulated every year.

 

Contact:

If you have any further questions, please visit the course website or contact the Office of Continuing Education
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