Ph.D. in Community Medicine and Public Health

Programme Details

The Ph.D. in Community Medicine and Public Health is one of the popular choice for those aspirants who like research work, inquisition for learning and understanding the relevance of the subject and betterment of community as a whole. Major prospects of the course involve analyzing the health of the population and the various threats associated with human life. It is a good course for those who have a sense of empathy and want to influence the lives of others in a positive manner.

Public Health is an interdisciplinary field drawing its core strength from medicine, biological sciences, social sciences, management, and public policy and planning. It is an applied field bringing public health theory and practice together, theory informing the practice and vice-versa. In spite of a strong affiliation with medicine and medical care, public health as a field maintains a strong distinction from the former in terms of its strong population level focus both in terms of problems as well as solutions.

The Ph. D program in Community Medicine & Public Health will recognize these aspects of public health as the guiding ideas of the program. Accordingly, the Program aims to orient young social science and public health scholars towards the public health realities of the country and the region and to provide an enabling academic environment for these scholars to work in areas of importance to the region. The program will help to build a research environment in the school that will connect the School’s public health program with institutions of public health practice and empirical field in the country and outside.