Program Duration
The Master of Public Health (Implementation Science) Programme is a two-year full-time degree programme. The MPH (IS) programme 2025-2027 will commence from August 2025 at IIHMR University, Jaipur Campus.
Learning Pedagogy
The pedagogy in each course is selected judiciously, with an emphasis on involving the students in learning and helping them to relate concepts and theory to the real-world situation in public health, management and its implementation. The programme is conducted with intensive teaching and learning methods which includes classroom teaching and capstone project (community immersive field work) in the first year and practicum related to implementation research during the second year.
Capstone Project
The MPH Capstone project is a graduation requirement for students in the Master of Public Health programme. It is typically completed in the second term of the programme and provides students with an opportunity to work on public health projects that are particularly interesting to them.
The components of capstone project include:
- Review of an existing public health programme to identify enablers and barriers in the context of implementation research.
- A proposal based on solving at least one of the implementation challenges identified from the review.
- An oral/poster presentation summarising their capstone project.
Practicum
The practicum assignment is part of the second year of the programme and will be undertaken in the respective home countries of the students. The students will be working on their practicum assignment under the guidance of the assigned faculty and organizational mentors / advisor. The practicum requirement intends to engage students in research activities aligned with their career goals and activities that demonstrate the application of public health core concepts and critical thinking relevant to the student's area of specialisation in implementation research. Students will seek out activities that further apply their skill set of implementation research to understand the implementation problems of the public health programme and identify possible solutions by working with the stakeholders.
Key Highlights of the programme
- Experiential Learning: Public health competency-based curriculum for developing world health challenges & solutions.
- Global public health faculty and practitioners from reputed institutions.
- A global classroom of public health learners
- Innovative methodologies like learning through rigorous urban and rural fieldwork and using public health skills in different public health scenarios.
- Field Immersive Technique for attaining the skill of Implementation Research
- Network of 300 + alumni across the world connected through the IR Connect platform
