Masters
Public Health

Public health is today essential in studying the determinants of health and identifying evidence that supports various public policies in promoting the health of populations. Modern societies need, more than ever, your contribution to face challenges related to lifestyles and non-communicable diseases, environmental threats, and climate change, and emerging zoonoses and communicable diseases.
This Course presents an internationally recognized curricular program that meets these important challenges.
It has a teaching staff with an academic background and multifaceted professional experience that guarantees a multiplicity of learning experiences and a critical evidence-based approach.
With a nationally and internationally validated curriculum and long experience in the field of Public Health, this Master's degree allows you to work on improving the health of populations and health systems and organizations, investigate and participate in working groups responsible for studies and health projects research in the core areas of Public Health.
Since 2022, it has been the only Master's in Public Health in Portugal to appear in Eduniversal's 100 Best Masters ranking worldwide and is among the 10 best European Masters in Health Economics/Public Health.
Who is intended for
To all professionals who aim to develop their career in different areas of public health, namely epidemiology, health policies and administration, environmental and occupational health, health economics, health planning and health promotion, in different types of national and international.
Accreditations
Recognition
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Master's Coordinator | Master´s Deputy Coordinator | |
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Mandatory Curricular Units
- In-person format
- Thursday and Friday | 4:30 pm to 10:10 pm
Optional Curricular Units
- Online format
- Monday (morning), Wednesday (afternoon) and/or Saturday (morning)
In the second year, for the Dissertation, research seminars take place on Thursday and/or Friday.
This program will be held entirely in portuguese.
Curricular Units | ECTS |
1st Year | |
Fundamentals of Public Health • Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto | 4 |
Statistics• to be defined | 4 |
Health Action and Planning Strategies • Carolina Santos | 4 |
Health Economics • João Pereira | 4 |
Health Promotion Principles and Strategies • João Pereira
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4 |
Evidence-Based Health Programs • Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto | 4 |
Epidemiology • Carlos Dias | 4 |
Health Law and Ethics • Paula Lobato Faria | 4 |
Social Research Methods in Health • Cristina Godinho |
4 |
Occupational and Environmental Health • Susana Viegas | 4 |
Health Policies and Management • Paulo Sousa |
4 |
Free Options | 16 |
2nd Year | |
Dissertation | 60 |
Total ECTS | 120 |
Curriculum validated by APHEA
I Application Phase
- Application period: until March 7, 2025
- Publication of the provisional list: March 17, 2025
- Hearing of interested parties: March 18 to 31, 2025
- Publication of the definitive list: April 1, 2025
- Registration and registration period: April 1 to 4, 2025
II Application Phase
- Application period: March 10 to June 27, 2025
- Publication of the provisional list: July 4, 2025
- Hearing of interested parties: July 7 to 18, 2025
- Publication of the definitive list: July 21, 2025
- Registration and registration period: July 21 to 25, 2025
III Application Phase
- Application period: June 30 to August 22, 2025
- Publication of the provisional list: August 26, 2025
- Hearing of interested parties: August 27 to September 9, 2025
- Publication of the definitive list: September 10, 2025
- Registration and registration period: September 10 to 17, 2025
The 2nd and 3rd phases will only be opened if there are available spots.
Conditions for Applying
- Degree in Medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nursing, Health Technologies, Biological Sciences, Veterinary Sciences, Engineering, Economics, Law, Sociology, Psychology, Administration and Management, Political Sciences and Education and Communication Sciences, Human Motricity or other recognized areas by the Course Coordination, related to Public Health;
- Proficiency in Portuguese and adequate level of English (to use readings during the course).
How to apply
The application must be made exclusively via the Internet, by filling out the application form available on the Application Portal.
Investment
- Application fee - €51 (non-refundable)
- National student tuition fee - €3,950
- International student tuition fee - €5,950
This Master's degree was an experience that exceeded my expectations, enriched my professional practice and allowed me to look at the role of health specialties in a different way.
It provided the opportunity to acquire theoretical and practical knowledge in the area of co-creation of health interventions, project management, health economics and within the scope of health policies at national and international level.
Completing this Master's degree is transformative. With comprehensive and up-to-date training and a teaching staff with experienced professionals, I found this course to be an intellectually stimulating environment for discussion and experimentation, which results in the development of innovative work, characterized by scientific robustness relevant to academia, policy makers and the general population.
ENSP NOVA mediates interaction and collaboration with various stakeholders, both nationally and internationally, providing a truly interdisciplinary and global vision of health.
Throughout the Master's degree, ENSP NOVA was an example of best practices, promoting dialogue and interdisciplinarity. The program was able to provide a Global and Planetary Health approach, updated on emerging issues and problems. The excellence of the guidance guaranteed the methodological quality of the study, giving it a robustness that raised it not only to a scientific level, but also an ethical one.
The flexibility and acceptance of interlocutors and actors external to the school also demonstrated a culture of openness and promotion of collaboration and cooperation in science and health, from a perspective of horizontal integration of knowledge and practices from CPLP countries.