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1. Master of Public Health
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OBJECTIVE
• To prepare professionals with the technical and managerial skills who strengthen the
Public Health system.
• To train and develop a cadre of competent public health policy makers, managers, practitioners,
educators and researchers.
ABOUT MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMME
The curriculum of the Master of Public Health program at Symbiosis International
University is a mix of transdisciplinary courses to attain knowledge, competencies, skillsets and values
involving diverse and innovative pedagogies and instructional designs with an emphasis on problem-
solving and case-based learning, empowering the Master of Public Health graduates for the 21st
century.
UNIQUE ADVANTAGE OF OUR MPH GRADUATES
1. The Master of Public Health (MPH) program at SIHS, SIU is a multi-disciplinary
professional degree program awarded for studies in areas related to public health.
2. The program has been designed as per the guidelines laid down by MoHFW, GoI (Model Curriculum
Handbook- Master in Public Health, MoHFW).
3. The MPH program leverages the advantage of 6 faculties at SIU beyond the core Faculty of Health
Sciences viz. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Management, Faculty of Law,
Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Faculty of Media, Communication and
Design.
4. Cross disciplinary and inter connected courses such as Public Health Law and Ethics, Public Health
Information Systems, Mass Communication Theories and Practices, Health Policies for Public Health
and Medical Care, Global Health Diplomacy, Public Healthcare Communication Strategy, Health
Geographic Information Systems are offered under our MPH program.
5. Our MPH program immerses public health students in extensive transdisciplinary learning.
6. All our students undergo experiential learning in real life field based setting viz. around the 22 villages
in Lavale that have been adopted under Symbiosis Community Outreach
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Master of Public Health (MPH) is a full time Public Health program in India offered by Symbiosis Institute
of Health Sciences. The MPH degree focuses on public health practice and research.
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2. Program and Extension (SCOPE) program. Students take part in community service,
health education and behavioral change campaigns, and hone their data collection and survey
techniques during their postings in SCOPE.
7. Summer Internship in governmental organizations, NGOs, and CSR foundations of corporate and
governmental sectors that work in public health domain is an integral and essential component of the
MPH program. Students are expected to learn public health
and managerial skills during the course of the Internship
theoretical courses in community settings.
8. Dissertation work is a compulsory component that relies collection
leading to publications in SCOPUS indexed journals.
and apply learning from
heavily on primary data
SELECTION PROCEDURE
A simplified streamlined process which is candidate friendly, convenient, advantageous
and economical to a candidate has been brought in for the Academic Year 2022-2024
The Non-SNAP registered candidates will be called for Personal Interaction and
Written Ability Test.
SALIENT FEATURES OF THE ADMISSION PROCESS:
• MPH admissions will take place through NON-SNAP
(https://siu.ishinfo.com/SIUPGFY22/Register/)
• Registered candidates will be selected through Personal Interaction and Written
Ability Test (PI-WAT)
MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION
English
PROGRAMME & SPECIALIZATION
MPH is an integrated interdisciplinary programme providing cross-cutting competency
development to students. The programme is formatted such that apart from the
classroom didactic lectures, students spend a substantial amount of their learning time
in various Public Health domain related set ups where they get experience of actual
hands on practical training.
Eminent guest faculty further enriches the course content. Innovative teaching
methods and sessions which contribute to all round personality development in
addition to academic excellence and practical competences.
EXAMINATION PATTERN
Students will be evaluated throughout the two years of the programme by periodic
tests as well as assignments. Consideration will be given for the student's contribution

3. to classroom discussions, written reports, reading and other assignments. The
evaluation of the student's performance is done by means of continuous on-going
internal evaluations as well as at the end of each semester external examination will
be conducted by SIU.
All internal courses will have 100% component as internal evaluation at the institute
level. All external courses will have 60% internal component and 40% component as
external (University) examination.
STANDARD OF PASSING
The assessment of the student for each examination is done, based on relative
performance. Maximum Grade Point (GP) is 10 corresponding to O (Outstanding). For all
courses, a student is required to pass both internal and external examination separately with a
minimum Grade Point of 4 corresponding to Grade P. Students securing less than 40% absolute
marks in each head of passing will be declared FAIL. The University awards a degree to the
student who has achieved a minimum CGPA of 4 out of maximum 10 CGPA.
AWARD OF DEGREE
The SIU will award Master of Public Health (MPH) at the end of semester IV
examination by taking into consideration the performance of all semester
examinations after obtaining minimum 4.00 CGPA out of 10 CGPA.
A detailed grade sheet and transcript will be issued to each successful student.