School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India.
Health Systems and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Front Public Health. 2022 Aug 26;10:909474. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.909474. eCollection 2022.
Over the past two decades, there has been an increased demand for Public Health Education (PHE) in South Asia. While this region has a large number of Public Health (PH) institutions, the quality of PHE has not been aligned with the core PH competencies. In this article, we present an overview of Master of Public Health (MPH) programs across South Asian countries. An extensive systematic search on various web search engines regarding PH course offerings was conducted, including specific institute and educational websites. By 2021, more than 180 institutions in South Asia provided an MPH degree. Most of these institutions/universities were found in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and a few among these institutions were established as independent Schools of Public Health (SPH), separate from medical colleges, and had a multidisciplinary faculty. But, dedicated training facilities in the specialized field of public health were not found in most of these institutions. Generally, a well-defined MPH curriculum is not currently available except in India where the University Grants Commission (UGC) guideline for a model MPH curriculum has been proposed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The entry criteria for an MPH degree in India is accepting students in multidisciplinary fields, while in other South Asian countries this is primarily restricted to medical/paramedical students with a basic understanding of preventive medicine. The aim of this review was to document the current and future PHE opportunities and challenges in South Asia.
在过去的二十年中，人们对南亚公共卫生教育（PHE）的需求不断增加。尽管该地区有大量的公共卫生（PH）机构，但 PHE 的质量并未与核心 PH 能力保持一致。在本文中，我们介绍了南亚各国的公共卫生硕士（MPH）课程概况。我们对各种网络搜索引擎上的 PH 课程提供情况进行了广泛的系统搜索，包括特定的机构和教育网站。到 2021 年，南亚有 180 多个机构提供 MPH 学位。这些机构/大学大多位于印度、巴基斯坦和孟加拉国，其中少数几所机构是独立的公共卫生学院，与医学院分开，拥有多学科的教师。但是，在大多数这些机构中，并没有专门的公共卫生领域培训设施。通常，除了印度，目前没有一个明确的 MPH 课程，因为印度的大学拨款委员会（UGC）已经由卫生部和家庭福利部提出了一个模型 MPH 课程的指导方针。印度 MPH 学位的入学标准是接受多学科领域的学生，而在其他南亚国家，这主要限于对预防医学有基本了解的医学/辅助医学学生。本综述的目的是记录南亚当前和未来的 PHE 机会和挑战。
