PhD in Global Health, Health Services and Health and Social Care
Academic year 2023-24
You may also check this information for the 2022-23 academic year.
Branch of Knowledge | Health Sciences |
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Certification UIB coordinator | Dr. Miguel Bennasar Veny |
Tuition and admin fees per academic year | ¤275.60 (*) |
Spots for new students | 30 |
Teaching language |
Catalan and/or Spanish and/or English (as applicable), although the PhD thesis may be written in other common languages in the scientific community.
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Health research is a key element to improving life expectancy and quality for people around the globe, as well as wellbeing and sustainable human development. The main aim of this PhD programme is to train expert researchers in health and, specifically, in the field of epidemiology, global public health, health services and social care, by providing advanced, specialised and interdisciplinary training.
The comprehensive approach to health problems, new challenges in health systems and providing quality care require a multidisciplinary perspective. Public health professionals, services and policies are essential in controlling pandemics. Recently, epidemiology has played a more standout role and health problems must now be approached from a global perspective. Transmissible threats (such as the COVID-19 epidemic), as well as those linked to the effects of health conditions, climate change, migration, poverty and social inequality, represent major scientific, methodological, professional, organisation and global political challenges.
The lecturing staff comprises researchers from different areas of knowledge: nursing, medicine, physiotherapy, physical activity and sports science, biology, psychology, anthropology, social work, mathematics and computing. Most of our lecturers work in academe as teaching and research staff at the University of the Balearic Islands and IUNICS. Nonetheless, others has a background as researchers from the Primary Healthcare Research Unit in Majorca, healthcare professionals from the Balearic Islands Health Service (Ib-Salut) and researchers from the Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBA). All of them work together in different research groups linked to the programme’s different areas.
What skills will you acquire?
What career opportunities will you have?
Future PhD-holders in Global Health, Health Services and Social Care will be able to undertake independent research in the areas of care provision and academe, apply for competitive research projects as principal or collaborating investigators, and incorporate research into clinical practice and the decision-making process for health and social care. They will also be able to undertake tasks linked to public health and health management in different activity areas, such as health administration, the Carlos III Health Institute, public health agencies and social services. If they are interested in embarking on an academic career, they may also apply for teaching posts at universities.
Future PhD-holders may apply for different research or postdoctoral grant calls published on the Research Support Office (OSR) website at the University of the Balearic Islands and the Balearic Islands Health Research Institute:
https://www.uib.cat/recerca/ajuts
http://www.idisba.es/cat/Recursos-Humans/Ofertes-de-treball
High-quality official study
Legislation requires that official Spanish degree programmes receive a positive assessment from the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA, by its Spanish acronym). This process is known as verification, and it serves to ensure that education programmes are properly designed to provide the competencies and reach the learning goals around which the programmes are built.
The European Higher Education Area requires that there be a system in place to ensure the quality of degree programmes.
The doctorate programme is subject to constant assessment and improvement processes that guarantee that it maintains a certain level of prestige and renown in Europe. You can see the results of the assessment processes in the results section.
Composition of the Academic Committee
- Magdalena Esteva Cantó
- María Adoración Romaguera Bosch
- Antonio Aguiló Pons
- Joan Ernest De Pedro Gómez
- Inmaculada Riquelme Agulló
- Josep Vidal Conti
- Pilar Fuster Parra