Master of Veterinary Public Health
The programme gives you wide knowledge on fighting epizootics including zoonotic diseases. Furthermore, it gives you competence to assess the incidences and causes of diseases, and you will learn to develop, plan and complete programmes to fight diseases.
The programme gives you wide knowledge on fighting epizootics including zoonotic diseases.
Furthermore, it gives you competence to assess the incidences and causes of diseases, and you will learn to develop, plan and complete programmes to fight diseases.
Name: Master of Veterinary Public Health
Type: Master's programme
Duration: 2 years on a part-time basis
European transfer credits: 60 ECTS
Entry Requirements: A relevant master's or professional bachelor's degree and 2 years of relevant professional experience
Tuition fee: Appr. DKK 90,000
Besides a general knowledge of disease control and prevention, you will obtain competences to develop and implement methods and comprehensive strategies for surveillance and risk assessment, control, prevention and eradication of diseases in production animals and to further evaluate the economical consequences of different control strategies.
The programme comprises compulsory courses (35 ECTS), a master thesis (12-20 ECTS) and a number of elective points (5-13 ECTS).
The courses are organised in 5 modules:
Module 1 - Statistics for veterinarians (9 ECTS):
The module gives you the theoretical background and the necessary prerequisites for the rest of the master programme. The main topics are data management and biostatistics, information search, critical reading and scientific communication.
Module 2 - Epidemiology and Biostatistics:
The compulsory course is basic epidemiology and will focus on study objectives and hypotheses, study design, nature of data, data management and measures of frequency and association. The elective course focuses on epidemiological analysis of continuous and dichotomous data. Descriptors are hypothesis testing, causality and bias, correlation and linear regression, analysis of variance, assumptions, Chi-square test, logistic regression and logistic analysis, multivariable logistic analysis, interaction, confounding and non-parametric analyses.
The courses are:
- Veterinary epidemiology, part 1 (compulsory, 6 ECTS)
- Veterinary epidemiology, part 2 (elective, 6 ECTS)
Module 3 - Disease Control Strategies:
The module focuses on disease outbreak management, disease control and dynamics, and principles of quantitative risk analysis in relation to trade. The module enables you to plan, conduct and evaluate surveillance, control, eradication and preventive programmes.
The courses are:
- Disease outbreak management (compulsory, 5 ECTS)
- Disease control and dynamics (compulsory, 5 ECTS)
- Quantitative risk assessment (compulsory, 5 ECTS)
Module 4 - Animal Health Economics:
The main topics are theoretical and applied animal health economics. The focus is on basic economic theory and on decision support systems and how to evaluate the economical effects and consequences of measures taken through disease control programmes in the production animal systems.
The courses are:
- Animal health economics 1 (compulsory, 5 ECTS)
- Animal health economics 2 (elective, 5 ECTS)
Module 5 - Master Project (12-20 ECTS):
The master project is a scientific paper based on empirical data, theories, techniques and methods acquired in modules 1-4. The master thesis must be written in English.
The modules need not be completed in numerical order.
Each course is completed by submission and evaluation of a report and/or an examination.
The language of tuition is English.
Tuition and examination can, however, take place in Danish if the master student and the teacher have agreed on this.
Elective points:
Elective courses may be chosen from within or outside the Faculty of Life Sciences and the choice must be approved by the Master Study Board.
See prospective classes in the Danish description of the course.
Educational Institutions
Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE) at the University of Copenhagen offers the programme.
Duration
The programme is structured so that it can be completed as a part-time study within a maximum of 4 years. It is rated at 60 ECTS or a full-time students work in one year
It is also possible to enrol in single courses and/or modules without enrolling in the full program. The entry requirements can in such cases be deviated from.
Admission
You must have a BSc or MSc degree in veterinary or human medicine, agricultural or natural science, or agricultural engineering.
Furthermore, at least two years of relevant full time working experience, is required.
KU-LIFE can admit applicants who do not comply with all requirements if they satisfy comparable educational accomplishments. The requirement of two years of relevant working experience cannot be deviated from.
Good English language skills, enabling the applicant to follow teaching in English, are required.
Tuition fee
The tuition fee for the whole programme is approximately DKK 90,000.
Please note! Separate non-EU fees - see more on the homepage.
For Further Information
You may find a list of courses taught in Danish at the Danish Ministry of Education website
You can find information on practical issues related to your study visit in Denmark with Danish Agency for International Education:
Posted Jul 30, 2010 06:58 PM
