Public Health

The Cluj School of Public Health (SPH) (www.publichealth.ro) is the first undergraduate program in Public Health available for students in Romania and in the entire Central and Eastern Europe.In the context of the 21st century, public health represents a field that addresses some of the world’s most important priorities: the one of protecting and improving the health of the communities we live in. In accordance with this, the SPH program was designed in order to prepare independent professionals in the field of Public Health at the highest standards. The program is customized so as to cover every aspect of Public Health’s field, but it also allows students to focus on their area of interest. This way, the program brings an interdisciplinary approach on Public Health tackling five major fields: Health Policy and Management, Social and Behavioural Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, and Environmental Health.The program is based on a distinctive teaching and learning model which follows the pattern of the structural reform of the system, and seeks to change the face of higher education. There are several key differences from the classical, theoretical teaching system, and these include: innovative teaching and learning practices; courses that bring theory together with job experience; applied research studies and community oriented projects; experienced and engaged pro-fessors, some of them being international professors from universities in Europe and United States of America; acknowledgement of both national and international context; access to online bibliography; informal educational setting and extracurricular activities.