Master Programmes
Two-year Master programmes, 120 credits across four semesters, for professionals moving into epidemiology, health systems management, hospital hygiene and health data.
The Master is the second LMD cycle and the point at which a health professional stops being only a practitioner and starts shaping how services are designed, measured and led.
Our Master programmes concentrate on the competencies Central African health systems are visibly short of: field epidemiology, biostatistics, hospital hygiene and infection prevention, nutrition, and the management of health facilities and programmes.
Accreditation
Master programmes fall under the Ministry of Higher Education (MINESUP) and follow the LMD framework, with credit structures aligned to CAMES norms so that qualifications carry across francophone Africa and the CEMAC region.
Admission requires a Bachelor's degree (Licence) or recognised equivalent in a relevant field.
How long it takes
Two years, four semesters, 120 credits. Taught coursework carries the first year; the second is weighted towards supervised research and a professional placement.
- Duration
- 2 years, 4 semesters
- Credits
- 120 (LMD, 30 per semester)
- Entry
- Bachelor's (Licence) or recognised equivalent
- Oversight
- MINESUP, LMD framework
- Programmes
- 7
At a glance
How the programme runs
- 1
Admission
Entry on a Bachelor's degree (Licence) or recognised equivalent, with professional experience taken into account where the programme calls for it.
- 2
Year one: taught core
Advanced method and the substance of the specialisation, including epidemiological design, biostatistics, health economics and the regulatory environment you will work inside.
- 3
Professional placement
Placement inside a health authority, hospital, research group, NGO or programme, structured so your research question comes from real work rather than being invented for the degree.
- 4
Year two: research and defence
A supervised dissertation carried through to defence before a panel, with the expectation that good work is publishable.
Programmes in this cycle
(7)Where it leads
Epidemiologist, monitoring and evaluation lead, health programme manager, hospital or facility manager, health data specialist, and technical roles with ministries, NGOs and international agencies. The WHO African Region is projected to be short around 6.1 million health workers by 2030, and the shortfall is sharpest in exactly these analytical and managerial functions.
A Master is also the entry point to doctoral study.