Academic Excellence
Academics at Ensign Global University
Ensign Global University’s academic model is designed to prepare public health professionals with the knowledge, competencies, leadership capacity, and applied skills required to address local, national, and global health challenges.
Program structure
A Focused One-year Academic Pathway
The program extends over twelve months and is organized into two semesters. Each semester includes teaching, revision, and examination periods.
Twelve-month Program
The academic program extends over twelve months, structured as a one-year graduate public health pathway.
Two Semesters
The academic year consists of two semesters, with the first semester running from August to December.
Sixteen-week Semester
Each semester is 16 weeks, giving students a structured period for teaching, revision, and assessment.
Teaching Plus Assessment
Thirteen weeks are used for teaching, followed by one week of revision and two weeks of examination.
MPH Program Objectives
Preparing Highly Skilled Public Health Professionals
The MPH program is designed to train professionals who can identify, analyze, and intervene in pressing public health challenges in communities and across wider health systems.
Across its faculties, Ensign Global University supports research teams working on solutions that address chronic illness, sustainable living, and public health challenges.
The MPH program aims to train highly skilled public health professionals who can identify, analyze, and intervene in today’s most pressing public health challenges in their immediate communities, in the country at large, and on a global scale.
The program develops high-quality and sustainable training strategies to prepare public health leaders with the knowledge and competencies necessary to address challenges across local and global health care systems.
Identify
Build the ability to identify public health problems, risks, needs, assets, and system gaps.
Analyze
Use epidemiological, biostatistical, qualitative, quantitative, and systems-thinking tools.
Intervene
Design policies, programs, projects, and interventions that improve health outcomes.
Lead
Apply leadership, management, communication, and partnership skills to public health practice.
Student competencies
Competencies Acquired by MPH Students
By the end of the MPH program, students are expected to demonstrate foundational public health competencies as well as generalist competencies for professional practice.
1 Foundational Competencies: evidence, methods, and analysis
- Apply epidemiological methods to settings and situations in public health practice.
- Select quantitative and qualitative data collection methods appropriate for a given public health context.
- Analyze quantitative and qualitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming, and software, as appropriate.
- Interpret results of data analysis for public health research, policy, or practice.
2 Foundational Competencies: health systems, equity, and community context
- Compare the organization, structure, and function of health care, public health, and regulatory systems across national and international settings.
- Discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities, and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity.
- Assess population needs, assets, and capacities that affect communities’ health.
- Apply awareness of cultural values and practices to the design, implementation, or critique of public health policies or programs.
3 Foundational Competencies: programs, policy, evaluation, and resources
- Design a population-based policy, program, project, or intervention.
- Explain basic principles and tools of budget and resource management.
- Select methods to evaluate public health programs.
- Discuss the policy-making process, including the roles of ethics and evidence.
- Propose strategies to identify stakeholders and build coalitions and partnerships for influencing public health outcomes.
- Advocate for political, social, or economic policies and programs that will improve health in diverse populations.
- Evaluate policies for their impact on public health and health equity.
4 Foundational Competencies: leadership, negotiation, and communication
- Apply leadership and/or management principles to address a relevant issue.
- Apply negotiation and mediation skills to address organizational or community challenges.
- Select communication strategies for different audiences and sectors.
- Communicate audience-appropriate public health content, both in writing and through oral presentation.
- Describe the importance of cultural competence in communicating public health content.
5 Foundational Competencies: interprofessional practice and systems thinking
- Integrate perspectives from other sectors and/or professions to promote and advance population health.
- Apply a systems-thinking tool to visually represent a public health issue in a format other than a standard narrative.
6 Generalist Competencies
- Apply health promotion skills to low-resource settings to improve the well-being of communities.
- Apply entrepreneurial thinking skills and dimensions through a public health approach to solving community health problems.
- Apply tools and concepts beyond the traditional public scope to innovatively solve health challenges at the district level.
- Apply standards of professionalism, principle-based practice, and ethics in addressing public health issues through public health practice and research.
- Demonstrate effective community engagement skills for public health practice, including activities that inform, educate, and empower targeted audiences.
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