Master in Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health
Pål Surén was awarded a Fulbright grant for the academic year 2005-06 to complete a Master's in Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health.
Pål Surén was awarded a Fulbright grant for the academic year 2005-06 to complete a Master's in Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health.
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Pål Surén (number three from left) and friends at Harvard
I completed the Master of Public Health program at Harvard School of Public Health 2005-2006. This is a one-year master’s program that requires education and/or work experience from medical or health-related services. It also requires another master’s level degree in beforehand. Approximately 60% of the students are doctors, whereas the rest come from a variety of other professions. Ca. two thirds of the students are Americans, and the rest are from other countries. The school also offers two-year Master of Science and doctoral programs that do not have the same entrance requirements as the MPH program.
The school is one of the world’s leading institutions of public health education and research, and the teaching and the programs are excellent. The school also attracts great lecturers and guests from all over the world, so one is always kept up-to-date about the current issues of interest in the international public health community.
In addition to the Fulbright grant, I also received a grant from the Norwegian Directorate of Health and Social Affairs (Sosial- og helsedirektoratet), which provides a scholarship each year for a Norwegian health professional who wants to go abroad to obtain an MPH degree.
Read more about the Master of Public Health here.
