WHO-TDR & IIHMR
TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, is a global programme of scientific collaboration that helps facilitate, support and influence efforts to combat diseases of poverty. It is co-sponsored by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO). IIHMR University, Jaipur, India is one of the eight universities across the world to implement TDR's Post Graduate Training Scheme for students from LMIC. The training will focus on public health and implementation research. This scheme aims to enhance graduate training capacity and boost the number and quality of researchers in LMICs in implementation research.
TDR Postgraduate training scheme will be focused on courses relevant to a career in implementation research with a focus on four major challenges affecting infectious disease of poverty using a One Health approach; Epidemics and outbreak; Control and Elimination of disease of poverty; climate change's impact on health; antimicrobial resistance to treatment and control agents.
Program Duration
The Master of Public Health (Implementation Science) Programme is a two-year full-time degree programme. The MPH (IS) program 2024-2026 will commence from October 2024 at IIHMR University, Jaipur Campus.
Course Work
The courses are taught by distinguished faculty members from IIHMR University and international faculty who have contributed to meeting the challenges of public health and health care management nationally and internationally.
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 program is conducted with intensive teaching and learning methods which includes classroom teaching and capstone project (community immersive field work) in the first year. The participants will return to their home countries and conduct 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 Program. It is typically completed in the second term of the program 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 program 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 Experience in Programme Implementation
As part of the MPH (IS) program, the students will work for their practicum training during the second year under the guidance of their assigned Faculty as his/her advisor. For this Training, the students will return to their home countries and undertake an Implementation Research project. 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 program and identify possible solutions by working with the stakeholders.
Key Highlights
- Experiential Learning: Public health competency-based curriculum for developing world health challenges & solutions.
- Blended Learning Method: Real-time Online classes if the situation of covid arises.
- 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
- 100% scholarship for 13 selected National & Eastern Mediterranean Region
- A network of 300 + alumni across the world connected through the IR Connect platform
