Affiliated Programs
There are a number of programs affiliated with CIHLMU including:
The PhD program in Medical Research with the specialisation in epidemiology and public health is an interdisciplinary program, promoting research activities in these areas. The PhD follows the philosophy of "tailor-made learning": the Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC), which comprises three supervisors, and the PhD candidate jointly agree on the research project and required training needs, thereby ensuring that the particular training and supervision needs of each PhD candidate are met.
The PhD is part of the Pettenkofer School of Public Health, which operates as a platform for teaching and research in the Munich area, and consists of the Helmholtz Zentrum München, the Bayerisches Landesamt für Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit (Bavarian Health and Food Safety Agency) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU).
More information can be found on the university webpage.
Master of Public Health (MPH) is a German Master Program, therefore most lectures are in German. German is available on the MPH Program and LMU: Master of Public Health.
What is Public Health?
Public health is an independent, strongly interdisciplinary, empirical science. The main focus is not the health of an individual but rather the health of a population. Research and educational programs in public health address the conditions required for health and the causes of disease, the interactions between people and their natural, technical and social environment, health promotion and disease management, the achievements of the health system and the possibility to guide and direct health care politics and to evaluate and secure the quality of health care delivery.
For news visit Aktuelles (in German).
The Master of Science Epidemiology offers students the chance to learn how to analyze different problems in health-related fields and to plan, execute, and interpret studies. They learn about the relationships between diseases and the risk factors that lead to ill health as well as how to diagnose diseases, to apply therapeutic approaches, and to determine the prognostic value and the influence of therapeutics on patient quality of life. Students also study the relationship between diseases, an individual’s genetic predisposition, and influential environmental factors. What is Epidemiology?
Epidemiology examines which factors make an individual or an entire population sick and which maintain their health. With the help of epidemiologic knowledge, many health policy measures have been implemented. With changing life conditions, new health risks are appearing and pushing the health spectrum of society into more chronic and partially preventable illnesses. Along with the methodological and analytic knowledge that is presented in the master of science program, current topics in public health research and education will be offered that reflect the various possibilities of further specialization. A focus in Epidemiology, Clinical Epi, Genetic Epi, Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology will be accommodated.
Further information can be found on the program webpage.
