Master of Epidemiology Degree Program Profile

Head of the Degree Program           : Dr. rer. Medic. Putri Bungsu, S.K.M., M.Epid.

Secretary of the Degree Program  : Renti Mahkota, S.K.M., M.Epid.

The Epidemiology Study Program of the Universitas Indonesia (UI) Postgraduate Program has been available since October 1995, and the Master of Epidemiology Degree Program was officially established with the Decree of Directorate General of Higher Education, the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture Number 108/DIKTI/Kep/1996 dated April 18, 1996. Furthermore, the Doctor of Epidemiology Degree Program was also established with the Decree of Directorate General of Higher Education, the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture Number 428/DIKTI/Kep/1998 dated November 24, 1998. The Master of Epidemiology Degree Program has been running the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) since 1980, starting from a non-degree program then transforming to a degree program, following the development of Epidemiology at the national and international levels. (PAEI, JEN, Inclen, Tephinet).

To be a world-class center for the development of science, technology, and Master’s education in the field of Epidemiology through Three Pillars of Higher Education (Tridharma Perguruan Tinggi) efforts so that it can play an active role in the development of public health in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

• Organizing the Three Pillars of Higher Education activities that are of high quality and relevant to national and regional needs in the field of Epidemiology at the Master’s education level (in community settings and clinics, also as Epidemiology practitioners) by partnering and networking with various national and international institutions;
• Creating an academic climate that can support embodying the vision of the Master of Epidemiology Degree Program;
• Organizing educational activities by creating Masters of Epidemiology that are highly intellectual and competitive at the national and regional levels;
• Conducting epidemiological research that produces high quality, creative, innovative and effective scientific work;
• Organizing community engagement through the application of epidemiological science and methods to improve public health levels;
• Making the Master of Epidemiology Degree Program a reference center for the development of epidemiological science and technology by expanding public access to educational programs, training, and services provided as well as the science, technology and innovation produced.

1. Producing Masters of Epidemiology with the following competencies:
   1. Being able to develop Epidemiology (including principles, methods and applications) in the scientific field and professional practice of Epidemiology through research, thus producing innovative and tested works;
   2. Being able to solve scientific problems and health-related incidents through an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approach;
   3. Being able to manage research and development that is beneficial to the public and epidemiological science, and able to gain both national and international recognitions.
2. Encouraging epidemiological research for:
   1. Increasing the number of research grants and the quality of research results;
   2. The resulting produced is presented at national and international conferences or seminars;
   3. The research produced is published in national and international journals with reputations and/or obtaining Intellectual Property Rights;
   4. Establishing strategic partnerships in the fields of education and research with domestic and foreign institutions and agencies.
3. Boosting community engagement activities in the field of Epidemiology through:
   1. The implementation of recommendations and programs addressing health issues using surveillance methods and other epidemiological principles;
   2. Actualization of expertise in the field of Epidemiology
4. Promoting and supporting the active participation of academics in the development and service of a democratic, prosperous, and civilized society as an independent moral force;
5. Improving the quantity and quality of service to the nation, state, and world through collaboration, partnerships, and opportunities for cultural enrichment and continuing education.

• Excellent Accreditation
• Reputable and competent lecturers in their fields
• Facilities and infrastructure supporting the learning and teaching process

Graduates obtaining a Master of Epidemiology (M.Epid) degree are Masters of Epidemiology who are able to develop principles, methods, and applications of Epidemiology to address health issues through research with interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches on a national or international scale. Their profiles are researchers, managers, leaders, advocates, and educators.

1. Being able to develop the science of Epidemiology (including principles, methods, and applications) in the scientific field and professional practice of Epidemiology through research, thus producing innovative and tested work;
2. Being able to solve scientific and health-related incidents through an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approach;
3. Being able to manage research and development that is beneficial to the public and epidemiological science, and able to gain both national and international recognitions.

1. Being able to conduct clinical epidemiological research including preventive, screening, diagnostic, etiognostic, prognostic and therapeutic scopes;
2. Being able to apply knowledge and skills to help improve case management in hospitals and clinics;
3. Being able to make clinical decisions for preventive, screening, diagnostic, therapeutic efforts, and determination of prognostics and etiology (including Health Technology Assessment);
4. Being able to provide advocacy to clinical decision makers;
5. Being able to build consensus on clinical decisions.

1. Being able to apply epidemiological knowledge, concepts and methods applied in solving public health problems;
2. Being able to carry out research to identify the etiology and risk factors for the occurrence of health problems;
3. Being able to assess or monitor public health programs in health services and communities.

1. Being able to assess the effectiveness of epidemiological surveillance and screening programs;
2. Being able to conduct investigations into extraordinary events;
3. Being able to carry out operational epidemiological research in the field;
4. Being able to make reports and present field work results;
5. Being able to prepare intervention program plans through education and training;
6. Being able to communicate, advocate, and partner with program managers and policy makers (stakeholders) related to health.

1. Intermediate Biostatistics
   This provides the ability to apply an intermediate quantitative approach in understanding public health issues and their research-based solutions through interactive lecture and discussion learning methods, group discussions and assignments, and individual assignments. It covers the subject matter of descriptive and inferential biostatistics techniques, up to apply several advanced statistical techniques (linear regression, variance, and multiple logistic regression analyses) delivered in the Indonesian language.
2. Intermediate Epidemiology
   This course is designed for students to be able to comprehend the concepts and methods of Epidemiology and their application in explaining the distribution of disease, injury, and death and determining their causes to address health issues in the community.
3. Intermediate Public Health
   This course discusses public health theories, concepts, methods, and the use of public health theories and methods to solve public health problems.
4. Epidemiology and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases
   This course discusses the general principles of non-communicable diseases and understanding of the application of Epidemiology to several critical communicable diseases in Indonesia.
5. Epidemiology Methods of Communicable Diseases
   This course discusses the Epidemiology of communicable diseases. After taking this course, students are expected to be able to comprehend organizational structure and all communicable disease eradication programs along with long-term goals, short-term goals, strategies, targets, measurements used and evaluation methods for each program.
6. Advanced Epidemiology Analysis Applications 1
   This course includes several types of regression models and their use in the analysis of epidemiological studies with case-control and cross-sectional designs. Several topics covered are simple and multiple linear regression for the analysis of study designs with continuous outcome variables, also unconditional and conditional logistic regression for categorical outcome variables.
7. Epidemiological Research Methods
   This course is designed for students to be able to apply epidemiological research methodology theories to an issue and express it in an epidemiological research proposal.
8. Publication
   This course represents a forum for students to conduct independent research with academic/thesis supervisors. The research method used is adjusted to the data needs prioritized in the form of secondary data, given that the publication needed takes a fairly long-time span between one to two academic terms. The research topic carried out for the needs of this course is expected to be linear with the thesis. The primary output of this course is the acceptance of a research article in a national or international journal, or international proceedings (full paper). The Letter of Acceptance, a copy of the paper, and a link to the journal page including the ISSN/ISBN number are required for graduation.
9. Final Project: Thesis Proposal, Thesis Results Seminar, and Thesis Defense
   A thesis is a scientific work written by the degree program students at the end of their studies as a requirement to complete a Master’s degree. The students’ scientific work demonstrates their ability in terms of methodology and public health substance, both quantitatively and qualitatively, in understanding health-related phenomena or in efforts to address a health issue. The preparation of a thesis in the Master’s degree program is packaged in three stages of courses: Thesis Proposal, Thesis Results Seminar, and Thesis Defense. The Thesis Proposal focuses on the preparation of a research proposal to be presented and evaluated later in a proposal seminar. After the research is carried out and the data is analyzed, students attend the Thesis Results Seminar as a forum to present and discuss research findings. The final stage is the Thesis Defense that is the ultimate exam to assess the entire process and results of the research prepared.
10. Clinical Epidemiology Methods
    This course discusses the comprehension of the principles and methodology of Clinical Epidemiology to obtain quantitative evidence in terms of diagnosis, etiology, prognosis of a disease and the effects of intervention (as a preventive effort or treatment). This course puts more emphasis on the methodology of diagnostic and prognostic studies. Discussion of intervention studies is covered in other courses (Clinical Trials course).
11. Current Issues in Epidemiology
    Students are able to comprehend and recognize current issues in Epidemiology, specifically in the methodology and substance spheres. The scope discussed includes issues regarding methodology: 1) systematic review and meta-analysis, 2) translational Epidemiology; and current epidemiological topics in the fields of nutrition, AIDS, emerging disease, reproductive health, and others.
12. Advanced Epidemiology Analysis Applications 2
    This course covers, among others, the types of regression models, what they are and how they are used in Epidemiology. Topics discussed include Poisson regression for analysis of “follow-up” study design and survival analysis. This course also discusses data analysis using life tables, Kaplan Meier, proportional hazard assumptions, and Cox regression.
13. Clinical Trials
    This course discusses the basic principles of clinical trials in the investigation and safety of an intervention (both medicines and procedures), also discusses methodology related to clinical trials and the principles in implementing clinical trials.
14. Critical Review
    This course focuses on research and public health, requiring each student to conduct a study on the results of a review of an article. This course emphasizes the interpretation of the results of a study by taking into account the presence or absence of non-causal explanations of the results obtained. Assessment of non-causal explanations and considerations regarding points supporting a causal relationship are carried out to confirm whether the study results are valid (internal validity) and could be generalized (external validity). Hence, students can make a critical review of a research article, particularly epidemiological research and clinical trials.
15. Clinical Decision Analysis
    This course provides a framework for producing optimal decision making in a clinical setting based on probability theory and the rational use of available information.
16. Epidemiology of Health Services Management
    This course is a compulsory course for the Community-Based Epidemiology specialization under the Master of Epidemiology Degree Program. In this course, students are expected to comprehend the Epidemiology of health services management encompassing the basics of Epidemiology of health services management, the application of Epidemiology of health services management and existing health services management system, and the role of Epidemiology in existing health services system (including health programs and services in hospitals and primary health care).
17. Epidemiological Methods 1
    The discussion in this course is more focused on understanding possible biases, and specific to certain study designs, confounding and effect modification (interaction). This understanding is linked to the assessment of whether a research result is valid (internal vs. external validity). Interpretation of the results of a study must take into account the presence or absence of non-causal explanations. To be able to read and interpret the results of a study correctly, at the beginning of this course, the discussion on frequency and association measures is studied over again (already discussed in the Intermediate Epidemiology).
18. Epidemiological Surveillance
    This course covers a theory and practice of recording and reporting, collecting, processing, analyzing and interpreting data in health care facilities. For students taking the Clinical Epidemiology specialization, data collection practices are carried out in hospitals. While, for students taking the Community-Based Epidemiology specialization, data collection practices are carried out in health office, primary health care, integrated health posts, and the community.
19. Outbreak Investigation Plan
    This course provides learning material about communicable diseases often causing outbreaks. These outbreaks include extraordinary events that may not be caused by communicable diseases but also non-communicable diseases. After taking this course, students are expected to be able to apply the steps of an outbreak investigation, starting from preparation for the field research to writing the research report.
20. Epidemiological Methods 2
    This course is a continuation of the Epidemiological Methods I course. This course discusses in more depth the principles, methods, procedures, and analysis (particularly the principles, assumptions, procedures, and interpretation of multivariate analysis results) of several types of analytical epidemiological studies, specifically observational case-control and cohort analytical studies. To deepen the understanding of the relative value/meaning of the results of an analytical epidemiological study and its influential factors, this course also discusses in more depth anything related to validity (including the nature of various variants of selection bias, information and confounding factors), precision, statistical significance, sample size, interactions (statistical interactions, effect modification, biological interactions), generalization, and advanced causal concepts and their approaches in drawing conclusions about causal relationships. Being equipped with such knowledge, students will also be allowed to practice making sharper case-control or cohort study proposals.
21. Situation Analysis
    This course is a two-credit course, consisting of one credit of in-class briefing and one credit of field practice. The in-class briefing lecture is filled with an introduction to situation analysis, health problems, general and specific health problem situation analyses, situation analysis approach, rapid assessment, proposal making, and report making. While, for one-credit activity in the field, students carry out the field practice in analyzing certain health problem situations which are the students’ assignments.
22. Outbreak Investigation Design and Practice
    This course discusses the implementation of investigations in the field. It starts from planning outbreak investigation activities, conducting investigations, to making complete outbreak investigation reports and presenting the results of their activities in a seminar.
23. Field Laboratory and Bio-Safety
    This course is designed for students to be able to identify and explain the concepts of safety and security in field laboratory work and analyze various examinations, external quality control, standard operational procedures, reporting and interpretation of results needed to strengthen surveillance of infections or diseases, especially in the community.
24. Surveillance and Evaluation of Surveillance Systems
    This course is a two-credit course, consisting of one credit of in-class briefing and one credit of field practice. The in-class briefing lecture is filled with basic epidemiological surveillance, evaluation of surveillance systems (routine, disaster, and special surveillances). While, for one-credit activity in the field, students carry out the field practice in evaluating certain surveillance systems which are the students’ assignments.
25. Public Health Program Policy Development, Management, and Evaluation
    This course aims to provide a basic understanding of the principles of policy development in the field of disease control and prevention, and to comprehend the development process, actors – context – content in a policy, logical consequences in its implementation and to comprehend the important role of management control instruments, in particular, supervision instruments. In addition, students are also expected to be able to plan the evaluation of a disease control and prevention program by being able to develop quantitative and qualitative instruments.
26. Training Management
    This course discusses training development techniques for Epidemiology and other topics in public health using instructional design principles; basic concepts of adult learning theory as a technique for delivering training materials.
27. Operational Research
    This course is a two-credit course, consisting of one credit of in-class briefing and one credit of field practice. The in-class briefing lecture is filled with an introduction to operational research, case studies, problem identification and problem-solving strategies and study design. While, for one credit activity in the field, students carry out the field practice in operational research starting from identifying a problem to intervening in the problem, and the students are assigned to write the report.
28. Interpersonal Communication and Advocacy
    The course discusses the concepts of communication and interpersonal communication, the history of advocacy development, concepts (definition, objectives, scope), steps and processes, and advocacy approaches and strategies. Advocacy indicators, various experiences in health-related policy advocacy, and aspects of advocacy research (academic manuscripts) are also discussed.

Criteria for prospective students:

• Prospective students must have a Bachelor’s degree from a study program accredited by the national accreditation agency, BAN PT LAM-PTKes. Prospective students who are graduates of foreign universities must upload their academic certificate equivalency from the Indonesian Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology to the website https://penerimaan.ui.ac.id, along with other requirements.
• Taking the entrance exam and passing the entrance exam.

Admission Path:

Admission for a Master’s degree in Epidemiology at UI Faculty of Public Health is by registering for the SIMAK UI exam, an independent selection process for the university, online via the website https://penerimaan.ui.ac.id. SIMAK UI exam materials comprise the Academic Ability Measurement and academic English proficiency.

The degree program graduates have broad career opportunities in various agencies, both as the public servants and non-public servants. Many alumni are employed in government institutions, such as the Indonesian Ministry of Health, Provincial/District/City Health Offices, training centers, research centers, BKKBN (National Population and Family Planning Board), BNPB (National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure), BPOM (Indonesian Food and Drug Authority), and the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. In addition, alumni are also employed in academic institutions, healthcare facilities, the private sector, NGOs, professional organizations, and international institutions such as the WHO. The alumni’s work covers various strategic fields, such as surveillance, control of communicable and non-communicable diseases, primary health services, environmental health, community empowerment, to health education and research.

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