Outline of the School

Content
Course Master of Public Health course
Name of the department School of Public Health
Director Professor Norito Kawakami （Mental Health） 2013-2016
Degree Master of Public Health（MPH）
Fixed Number

of students

 Approximately 30 students: Approximately 20 students for 2-year course（Standard study year limit as 2 years）, Approximately 10 students for 1-year course（Standard study limit as 1 year）
Qualification

for application

 2-year course： Standard qualification for application for master course（basically graduates(or prospective graduates) of the 4-year University）
1-year course：Standard qualification for application for master course＋practical experience
Note: See below for practical experience required for applying 1-year course

Qualification for application Required years for practical experience Practical experience which could be applied for
Graduates of the　university of the 4-year　course Practical　experience for more than 3 years Practical experience of Health care area such as administrative organization, insurance worker at health insurance society or, medical organizations such as hospital or clinic, etc. ,  long-term care facility,  pharmaceutical industry, medical related industry, and other industries
 

Graduates of the university of 6-year course (Medicine, Dentistry, and Veterinary Medicine）or graduates of Master Course

 Practical experience for more than 2 years
（Clinical training for doctors, etc. would be admitted as practical experience
Aim This course will train ‘advanced special professional’ who promote up-to date research to engage in the maintaining, increasing, and recovering the health as well as improving the quality of life of various people including national residents, local citizens, and patients.
Outline Public Health is academic and practical field which is related to the organizational approach in the society which pursue the maintenance and improvement of health and quality of life of the people. While the Clinical Medicine takes responsibility for the patient in front of you, Public Health is apparently different in the point that it takes responsibility for the group and focus on not only patients but also the healthy people in the purpose of preventing disorders.  Therefore, the course provides Graduate School education to study the specialty and professional ethics related to the issue. In this Professional graduate school, the name of the course is ‘School of Public Health’ ,as publicness and professional ethics are regarded important. However, the content of the study is considered to be equivalent to the Graduate School of Master of Public Health Sciences in the foreign countries.
Subjects There are totally 41 subjects provided. Some subjects are quantitative analysis type subjects such as ‘Epidemiology’, ‘Biostatistics’, and ‘Healthcare Economics’. Some subjects are related to the behavioral medicine such as ‘Mental Health’, ‘Health Education’, and  ‘Geriatric Social Science’, etc.  Some subjects are related to policy making and management such as’ Health Policy’, ‘Healthcare Informatics’, and ‘Patient Safety & Risk Management’, etc. Details of subjects will be introduced at the course guidance.
Type of students desired（provisional） Advanced special professional who could play an active role in order to promote up-to-date research to engage in maintaining, increasing, and recovering the health and Improving the quality of life of various people including national residents, local citizens, and patients as well as play leading and practical role in the field of Public Health.
Formation and reinforcement policy of the educational course In the Professional graduate school , the School of Public Health will educate advanced professionals who could (1) acquire the analytical method which target health of human group, (2)  understand social system related to medical health systematically, (3) be 3 superior in the ability for policy making and management, (4) have public health mind. In the School of Public Health（Professional master degree）will form and enforce the educational course in order to achieve above aims under the following policy.

(1)  Curriculum consists of  the subjects group which targets the epidemiologic and quantitative analysis, the subjects group which relates to the behavioral science and social science of the field of medical health, and the subjects group that targets the policy and management which is related to medical health and the clinical scene. Subjects which relate to the global standard of the graduate school education of the Public Health should be compulsory to take.

(2) For the 1-year course, practical experience and professional ethics are considered at the selection stage, and for the 2-year course, students will cultivate the self-awareness as a professional who could relate to maintain and promote the health of national citizens and local residents by gaining a chance to directly relate to the practical activities and research activities and  engage in the ‘Project Study’.
(3) Curriculum is formed in a way by accepting various educational method such as lectures and seminar by considering both theory and practice.
(4) Considering up-to-date issue of the Public Health, themes which promote the global viewpoint will be taken in the course.
Degree providing policy In the Professional graduate school, the School of Public Health, students would be awarded ‘the Master of the School of Public Health (MPH) ‘who are trained as an advanced professional specialist who gained necessary credits according to the formation and enforcement policy of the educational course who ①acquire the analytical method which target the health of human groups, ②understand the social system which relate to the medical health systematically, ③are superior to the ability for policy making and management, ④ hold ‘the Public Health Mind’ .
Career after graduation Possible career for graduates of the graduate school of Public Health as follows:

（１）Staff in charge of Public Health and Health Management Specialist for companies or other organizations who work for sudden accidental matter such as SARS, Avian Influenza, Bovine Spongiform ncephalopathy(BSE), and bioterrorism, etc. ( However, basically the medical qualification is needed for those area.)

（２）Professionals of the Clinical Epidemiology and Health Economics who carry on the EBM and big scale clinical trial which are the global trend of the field of Medicine.

（３）Hospital worker of the Patient Safety and Risk Management or Analyst of a think tank, NGO, etc. who could provide suggestions for Medical Policy in the viewpoint of the patients and citizens.

（４）Specialist of Healthcare Informatics with knowledge of the Medical System and Medical IT System who supports the head of the hospitals or Health Insurance Organizations. However, as the field which is related to the Public Health is broad, the possible career could not be limited to above 4 types.