“The COVID-19 pandemic that we experienced 2 years ago became a condition that was quite detrimental to many aspects of people’s lives. However, this also makes people aware that public health science has an important role in handling and dealing with the pandemic,” said Dr. Ir. Asih Setiarini, M.Sc., Deputy Dean for Education, Research and Student Affairs at FPH UI in her remarks at the FPH UI Postgraduate Program Open House event, Saturday, June 24, 2023. This online postgraduate program open house activity is the second time. This Open House was previously held on Saturday, 17 June 2023.
In his remarks, Dr. Asih also said that the science of public health is very broad, including epidemiology which includes studying how the spread of disease patterns and outbreak investigations, hospital administration in patterns of handling outbreaks, and OSH at work in pandemic conditions. This open house explains in detail the FPH UI Postgraduate Program which includes 2 (two) doctoral level programs and 4 (four) master level programs. Doctoral programs include Doctor of Public Health Sciences and Doctor of Epidemiology as well as master programs including Masters of Public Health Sciences, Masters of Epidemiology, Masters of Hospital Administration, and Masters of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH). All FPH UI postgraduate programs have been accredited A or excellent nationally, with 2 (two) internationally accredited study programs from AHPGS (Akcreditierungsagentur im Bareich Gesundheit und Soziales – Accreditation Agency in Health and Social Sciences), namely the Public Health Science Masters Study Program and the Hospital Administration Masters Study Program.
The resource persons from the Open House were represented by the Heads of their respective Study Programs, such as the profile of the Epidemiology Doctoral Study Program presented by Prof. drg. Nurhayati Adnan, M.P.H., M.Sc., Sc.D.; Public Health Science Doctoral Study Program by Dr. dr. Rita Damayanti, M.S.P.H.; Master of Public Health Study Program by Dr. Budi Hartono, S.Si., M.K.M.; Hospital Administration Masters Study Program by Dr. Ede Surya Darmawan, S.K.M., M.D.M.; Epidemiology Masters Study Program by Dr. dr. Helda. M. Kes .; as well as the K3 Masters Study Program presented by Dr. Dadan Erwandi, S.Psi., M.Sc. The resource person shared a lot of information about history, entry routes, curriculum, and existing facilities. (AAP)