Table 2 Profile of the seven schools of public health in East and Central Africa
University domain | CPHMS, Ethiopia | KSPH, DRC | MakSPH, Uganda | MUSPHSS, Tanzania | MUSOPH, Kenya | SPHUoN, Kenya | NURSPH, Rwanda |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year of establishment of SPH | 1983 – as Jimma Institute of Health Sciences and later as Jimma University in 1999 and CPHMS in 2009 | 1985 –Kinshasa School of Public Health (KSPH) | 2008 – as Institute of Public Health and later as School of Public Health | Initially 1991 as Institute of Public Health and in 2003 as School of Public Health and Social Sciences (SPHSS) | 1998 – as Institute of Public Health and 2004 as School of Public Health | 2010 – School of Public Health, University of Nairobi was established in September 2010 through the transformation of the Department of Community Health | 2000 – The National University of Rwanda, School of Public Health (NURSPH) in Butare and moved to Kigali in 2005 |
Departments in SPH | Health services management; Epidemiology; Population and family health; Health education and behavioral sciences | Public health policy and management; Epidemiology and biostatics; Nutrition; Community health; and Environmental sciences | Health policy, planning, and management; Community health and behavioral sciences; Disease control and environmental health; Epidemiology and biostatistics; Regional Centre for Quality Health Care | Behavioral sciences; Community health; Development studies; Epidemiology and biostatistics; Parasitology and medical entomology; Environmental and occupational health | Health policy and management; Environmental health; Epidemiology and human nutrition | Health care systems and policy development; Epidemiology and biostatistics; Disease prevention, control, and health promotion; Community health sciences | Health policy, economics and management; Epidemiology and biostatistics; Community health. COE in HSS |
Undergraduate programs | No programs but offer courses | No programs but offer courses | No programs but offer courses | No programs but offer courses | Environmental health | No programs but offer courses | No programs but offer courses |
Postgraduate programs | 5 MPH and 1 MSc | 1 MPH | 3 MPH full time, distance, MPH nutrition and 1 MSc in Health services research | 5 MPH and MSc | 5 MPH specializations | 1 MPH | 3 MPH and MSc |
Short courses | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 |