The course is organized into 10 didactic units of practical orientation, in which learning will be built from the various activities directly linked to professional transfer.
Along with the activities, debate spaces and documentation for each unit available in the eCampus, a wide range of teaching materials will be made available to students that will facilitate general understanding, the execution of the tasks of the various units of the program, and the acquisition of key competencies to access multiple professional opportunities.
Identify the main components of the organisation and financing of public systems and their relationship with public health, of which public health is a part.
Understand the concepts and foundations of statistics applied to health sciences and to be able to carry out research work, as well as critically assess the quantitative methodology of the articles published in this speciality.
Know what epidemiology is and learn the basic measures of frequency, association, and impact (both its basic calculation and its interpretation) to describe collective health and the design of basic epidemiological studies.
Acquire the necessary knowledge for the development of a research project, which constitutes the instrument that allows the connection of research ideas with the practical undertaking of the study. It includes the completion of the end of Diploma project.
The aim of this work is to assess the competences associated with the diploma, to apply the knowledge acquired and to put into practice skills related to oral and written presentation. This work must be the result of the student's autonomous work, although it will be supervised and tutored by one of the diploma lecturers.
There are two distinct parts. The first aims to critically examine the main scientific, social and political factors fundamental to the generation of existing health and inequalities. The second part reviews all elements related to mobility injuries, occupational accidents, occupational diseases and disabilities, and work-related risks.
Understand the conceptual and instrumental methods that allow the objectives of the surveillance of the population and its health situation to be achieved.
Review the principles and conceptual bases of the epidemiological control of communicable diseases and analyse the control of various communicable diseases, , such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, epidemic outbreaks, sexually transmitted infections, and other emerging infectious processes which are linked to the growing mobility of people.
Acquire knowledge of those aspects related to the environment, nature and food industries, the good development and management of which have an impact on the good health of the population.
Integrate the conceptual and theoretical bases on which health promotion and disease prevention and their risk factors are based, and to train students in the design, analysis and evaluation of preventive and health promotion interventions.
Understand, through problem-based learning, the concepts of community, community health and community health care, from the point of view of health services or from society, emphasizing the promotion of joint programs of primary care services, preventive medicine, and public health.
The practical component of the Diploma of Specialisation in Public Health recommends the completion of practical work, the aim of which is for students to gain experience in research methodology and the practical application of this research in the professional framework of public health. Likewise, in order to obtain the Diploma in Public Health, accredited by the National School of Health, it is compulsory to complete and submit the equivalent course credits for this practical work, equivalent to a personal workload of 75 hours.
The main objective of the work is to get students to apply all the knowledge acquired during the course by doing a project related to public health and preferably on a topic that is part of their usual professional task. Thus, students can choose a topic of work from the proposals made by the coordination of the diploma and the teaching staff, but they can also propose a topic of their interest linked to their professional experience.
Once you have passed the program, you will obtain an electronic degree (e-Título) for the Diploma de Especialización en Salud Pública, issued by Pompeu Fabra University. You will also obtain a Diploma in Public Health from the Escuela Nacional de Sanidad, Instituto de Salud Carlos III.
The e-Título is an authentic digital degree, issued in pdf format and electronically signed, with the same legal validity as if it were in paper format.
The Specialization Diploma in Public Health is open to all graduates in the field of health (medicine, nursing, biology, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, etc.), environmental sciences, statistics, economics, sociology, chemistry, and other people with a university degree who are working or wish to work in the near future in the field of public health or primary health care.
Students who access the course places must have a minimum knowledge of office automation and computer equipment that allows the installation of the statistical programs necessary, as recommended by the teachers (Stata, Geoda, and similar) to carry out the activities detailed in the credits of each unit.
Students are required to have a good level of English, since much of the documentation is in this language, and you will need to submit a document certifying your level of English. In addition, those participants who do not have Spanish as one of their mother tongues or who did not have it as a teaching language in their training studies, must prove that they have at least a B2 level of Spanish (Common European Framework of Reference), as well as fluently take part in a personal interview with the academic educational management, if necessary.
Our admission process consists of a rigorous evaluation of each application to preserve the quality of the group as well as the training, experience, and work capacity of all students.
The program has been designed, from its first course, to orient itself in the acquisition of the practical skills necessary for the professional practice of public health and to opt for multiple professional opportunities. The double degree you will obtain from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the National School of Health - Carlos III Institute of Health will qualify you to work as a public health professional in national and international public administrations. In addition, the Diploma of Specialisation in Public Health has academic continuity in the master’s degree in public health organised by the UPF and UAB universities, with which it is closely linked.
The Specialization Diploma in Public Health, created in collaboration with the Agencia de Salud Pública de Catalunya and the Agencia de Salud Pública de Barcelona, aims to provide health professionals with skills in the basic disciplines of Public Health and to introduce them to the essential tools used for the interpretation, control and evaluation of health problems.
The main objective of the programme is to provide the basic knowledge and competences necessary for public health professionals, through public administrations or other citizen services, to be able to develop more effectively their role in the field of health promotion and protection, surveillance, control and prevention of diseases and their risk factors in the population, considering the socio-political and economic context of their environment.
For this reason, the Specialisation Diploma in Public Health focuses on identifying the key concepts and tools for understanding what public health is, how it is structured and what functions and skills professionals who want to work in this field need to develop, starting with the definition of public health and the related institutions, as well as the basic tools for understanding, monitoring and analysing the health of the population and the factors that determine it. Practical elements for planning, developing and evaluating community interventions are also introduced.
Finally, the development and defence of a research project is proposed as the culmination of the programme.
The specific objectives of the Specialisation Diploma in Public Health are as follows:
- To acquire in-depth theoretical knowledge of the nature of public health and its capacity to transform societies by providing progress and well-being, but also by posing new challenges from an ethical perspective.
- To analyse the main priorities and major current problems facing public health.
- To reflect on the relationships between the different actors involved in the development of public health.
- To learn about the main professional areas in which public health is developed, how they have evolved in recent decades and what the prospects for future development are.
- Gain a comparative view of the public health landscape in different contexts, emphasising those examples of good and bad practice that have been decisive in the evolution of the profession.
- Acquire the practical skills necessary for the professional practice of public health.
- Acquire the knowledge and practical experience necessary to develop professional and research projects in the field of public health, integrating both theoretical and practical knowledge.
- Develop and defend a specific research project, necessary to obtain accreditation by the National School of Health and the UPF-BSM.
In this way, throughout the program you will learn to identify the main health problems of the population and their determinants, and you will approach them from a holistic and professional viewpoint. You will learn the resources to make health promotion and disease and health problem control and prevention policies more effective, you will learn to understand their determinants and highlight inequalities in the health of the population. You will gain experience and know how to respond to alerts, outbreaks and emergencies. You will also acquire the basic skills to carry out epidemiological research and discover how to promote community health from a health and equity perspective.
The program course offers different professional opportunities, all related to the field of public health, whether as a manager, technician, or specialist.
The program qualifies you to be able to work as a public health professional to the public administrations and, in addition, you will obtain the Diploma in Public Health, from the Escuela Nacional de Salud, I Institut de Salud Carlos III, highly valued for accessing numerous career opportunities and places, and for transfers.
The course credits provide the necessary training to understand the basics of public health from a rigorous perspective, looking at the main areas of interest in public health. It also incorporates the latest innovations to update education and mobility between disciplines for professionals who require it.
Its study plan is oriented not only to knowing, but also to knowing how (skills and experience) and knowing how to be (attitudes), which is reflected in the activities, and in the creation of spaces for opinion and discussion which can be used for an exchange of opinions and views that enrich the health training subjects.
The teaching team is made up of professionals and experts in the field of public health, who develop their work and their knowledge at both the local and regional levels.
The Specialization Diploma in Public Health is aimed at professionals and graduates in the field of health (medicine, nursing, biology, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, etc.), environmental sciences, statistics, economics, sociology, chemistry, and other university graduates who work or wish to work in the near future in the field of public health or primary health care.
The students participating in the programme have a multidisciplinary profile. A significant proportion are professionals in the health sciences, but there are also professionals from the social sciences and humanities, as well as profiles from other disciplines, with a common interest: to acquire distance training of academic rigour and quality in the field of public health.
The teaching staff of the Diploma of Specialisation in Public Health is made up of professionals of recognised prestige who work in the leading institutions in the planning, supervision and provision of public health services in Catalonia. Come and get to know them.
- Technicians in public health of public administrations.
- Specialists in pharmaceutical, biotechnological, food and environmental companies.
- Health and social service managers, public and private: public health, hospitals, pharmacy, epidemiology, primary care, social services, preventive medicine, etc.
- Continuation of studies in the field of research in public health, preventive medicine, health promotion, clinical medicine, and environment.
At the UPF Barcelona School of Management we are committed to a flexible and dynamic online model of education, which aims to place the participant at the centre of the process so that they are the owner of their professional learning process.
To facilitate day-to-day management and the achievement of your academic goals, the program is structured into subjects, with which you will acquire knowledge, and instrumental and aptitude skills.
All this, while having 24/7 access to the virtual environment so that you can organize your study without schedules and at your own pace. With this modality, you can combine it with your work and personal life, making the most of the time you have for it.
The Specialization Diploma in Public Health is the reference training for professionals who need a complete overview of public health for the development of their professional career.
- Montserrat Bartroli
Head of Departament de Prevenció i Atenció a les Drogodependències. Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona.
Associate Professor at Pompeu Fabra University. Doctor in Public Health. MSc in Public Health and MSc in Clinical Psychology and Behavioural Medicine. Postgraduate in Emotional Education. Published various articles in national and international journals. Developed various applied research studies in recent years, mainly in the field of drug dependence prevention and care. - Ana Bocio
Deputy Regional Director of the Camp de Tarragona and Terres de l'Ebre of the Public Health Agency of Catalonia. PhD in Pharmacy from the URV and Diploma in Health from the National School of Health and the Institut d'Estudis de la Salut. - Lluís Camprubí
Senior Public Health Technician at the Public Health Service of the Diputació de Barcelona. Associate lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University. Degree in Pharmacy. Master’s degree in public health. - Catrina Clotas
Senior Public Health Technician at the Department of Prevention and Care for Drug Dependency of the Barcelona Public Health Agency. Lecturer at the Pompeu Fabra University and the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC). Graduate in Sociology. Master’s degree in public health. - Imma Cortés
Head of the Health and Work Service of the Department of the Public Health Observatory of the Barcelona Public Health Agency. Associate Professor at Pompeu Fabra University. Graduate in Medicine, specialising in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Master’s degree in public health and biomedical research Methodology. Master’s degree in occupational risk Prevention. PhD in Biomedical Research Methodology and Public Health. - Ferran Daban
Head of the Health and Neighbourhoods Service of the Health Promotion Department of the Barcelona Public Health Agency. Associate lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University. Graduate in Anthropology and Diploma in Nursing. Master’s degree in public health. PhD in Biomedicine. - Albert Dalmau
Responsible for the Results Centre at the Agència de Qualitat i Avaluacions Sanitaries (AQuAS), and for addressing health inequalities. Associate lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University. Diploma in Statistics and master’s in public health. - Lluís Forcadell
Senior Public Health Technician at the Epidemiology Service of the Public Health Observatory Department of the Barcelona Public Health Agency. Associate lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University. Graduate in Biomedicine. Master’s degree in public health. PhD in Public Health and Health Education. - Pere Godoy
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Lleida. Director of the Lleida Cancer Population Registry at the University Hospital Santa Maria-GSS. Doctor of Medicine. - Mònica Guxens
Researcher at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health. Associate Professor at Pompeu Fabra University. Degree in Medicine, specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Master’s degree in public health. PhD in Biomedical Research and Public Health. - Angelina González
Health Technician at the Catalan Health Service of the Catalan Department of Health. Consultant in health promotion and community health. Graduate in Nursing. Master’s degree in public health. PhD in Biomedicine. - Mercè Gotsens
Senior Public Health Technician in the IT Development Department of the Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona. Associate lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University. Graduate in Applied Statistics and Diploma in Statistics. Master’s degree in public health. PhD in Biomedicine. - Anna Gòmez
Head of the Environmental Health Department of the Barcelona Public Health Agency. Graduate in Environmental Sciences and PhD in Environmental Pollution from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. - Jacobo Mendioroz
Deputy Director General of Surveillance and Response to Public Health Emergencies at the Public Health Agency of Catalonia of the Department of Health. Graduate in Medicine, specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Master’s in public health. - Josep Lluís de Peray
Consultant in Primary Care, Community Health and Public Health. Graduate in Medicine. - Joan Pau Millet
Senior technician in Medicine at the Epidemiology Service of the Public Health Observatory Department of the Barcelona Public Health Agency. He combines his activity with the medical co-direction of Serveis Clínics. Associate Professor at Pompeu Fabra University. Graduate in Medicine, specialising in Family and Community Medicine. Master in Tropical Medicine and International Health and master’s in public health. PhD in Public Health and Biomedical Research Methodology. - Lluís Picart
Head of the Veterinary Service, Official Food and Export Control of the Departament de Salut. Graduate in Veterinary Science. Postgraduate in Public Health and Postgraduate in Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety. - Vanessa Puig
Senior Public Health Technician at the Neighbourhood Health Service of the Health Promotion Department of the Barcelona Public Health Agency. Associate lecturer at Pompeu Fabra University. Graduate in Political Science and Administration. Master’s degree in public health. PhD in Biomedicine. - Josep Roma
Doctor of Medicine. Specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Diploma in Epidemiology Université Paris Sud. Master Health Professions Education Maastricht University. - Dolores Ruiz
Technician in Public Health at the Department of Prevention and Attention to Drug Addiction of the Public Health Agency of Barcelona. PhD in Biomedicine. Master’s degree in public health from the UPF. Postgraduate in Gender Equality Policies in Public Management. - Michael Silva
Epidemiologist at La Isla Network, NY, USA. Associate Professor at Pompeu Fabra University. Master’s in occupational health and safety, Master in Environmental Management in Industry. PhD in Biomedicine.
Specialization Diploma in Public Health
