This is a two-year course whose objective is to equip students with skills to analyse public health problems and design, implement, and evaluate actions to improve these problems. The programme is modular in design, each module lasts between 1 and 4 weeks. The curriculum consists of three parts; the core modules and the elective modules make up a third of the curriculum each; the third part consists of two integrated case studies making up 5% of the curriculum, a practical assignment making up 4% and a dissertation making up the final 18% of the curriculum.  Each of the core modules lasts one week (40 hours direct contact time) and each of the elective modules lasts half a week (20 hours direct contact time). Self study is designed to comprise 60% of the total study time for each module.  For most modules 20% of the total study time is undertake before the module (pre-reading) and 40% after the module (studying prior to an examination, an assignment, or the examination or assessment of the assignment itself).

 The core modules include learning skills in public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, disease prevention and environmental health, health management, health systems and social sciences. The elective modules include Adolescent health, Advanced epidemiology and statistics, Bioethics, Child health, Communicable disease control, Demography, Effective group leadership, Family planning, Financial management, Health information, HIV/AIDS, Information retrieval, Leadership skills, Malaria, Maternal health, Nutrition, Primary health care, Programme planning, Research synthesis, Research proposal development, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Tuberculosis.