THE UNIVERSITY is set to offer another “transnational” post-graduate program–a master’s degree in public health–in collaboration with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom.
The first term of the master’s degree program will be conducted at the University of Leeds’ Nuffield Center for International Health and Development, while the remaining three terms will be taken at the University’s Faculty of Medicine and Surgery.
Ditas Decena, a Medicine and Surgery faculty member, said the program would provide professionals a better understanding of the state of public health in the country.
“[The degree] gives you a broader aspects of medicine by not only dealing with treatment of diseases but also prevention strategies. Therefore, its impact is more in terms of public health, and we are also trying to transcend a global perspective for our University,” Decena told the Varsitarian in an interview.
The program will help improve professionals in addressing common diseases, creating health policies and handling disasters with moral discernment, she added.
UST Graduate School Dean Marilou Madrunio told the Varsitarian in August 2017 that the University will be offering the country’s first transnational doctorate degree in architecture in collaboration with the University of Reading also in the United Kingdom.
The Commission on Higher Education and the British Council have collaborated to introduce “international higher education and niche programs” between universities in the United Kingdom and higher education institutions (HEIs) in the country.
Aside from UST, other HEIs with United Kingdom linkages are the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, UP Los Baños, University of San Carlos, De La Salle University, Miriam College, Siliman University, Ateneo de Manila University, Central Luzon State University, Bicol University and Saint Louis University.
The First UK-Philippines Transnational Education Conference and Education Fair was held last Feb. 16 to Feb. 17 at the Makati Shangri-la Hotel.
