Table 1a
Faculties of Public Health offering MPH programs, 2019.
| COUNTRY | UNIVERSITY | PRIVATE/ PUBLIC | FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH (FPH) | YEAR OF FPH ESTABLISHMENT | YEAR OF MPH INITIATION |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sudan | University of Khartoum | Public | Faculty of Public and Environmental Health | 1933 | 1991 |
| Lebanon | American University of Beirut | Private | Faculty of Health Sciences | 1954 | 1971 |
| Egypt | Alexandria University | Public | High Institute of Public Health | 1956 | 1968 |
| Sudan | Ahfad University for Women | Private | School of Health Sciences | 1966 | 2013 |
| oPt | Birzeit University | Private | Institute of Community and Public Health | 1978 | 1996 |
| Lebanon | Lebanese University | Public | Faculty of Public Health | 1981 | 2010 |
| oPt | Al-Quds University | Public | Faculty of Public Health | 1994 | 1997 |
| Lebanon | University of Balamand | Private | Faculty of Health Sciences | 1995 | 2015 |
| Lebanon | Jinan University | Private | Faculty of Public Health | 1999 | 2014 |
| Saudi Arabia | King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences | Public | College of Public Health and Health Informatics | 2006 | 2015 |
| UAE | Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University | Semi-private | School of Health and Environmental Studies | 2009 | 2011 |
| Qatar | Qatar University | Public | College of Health Sciences | 2012 | 2015 |
| Somalia | Amoud University | Public | College of Health Sciences | 2012 | 2012 |
| Kuwait | Kuwait University of Health Sciences | Public | Faculty of Public Health | 2013 | 2018 |
| Somalia | Benadir University | Private | Faculty of Health Sciences/ School of Postgraduate Studies | 2014 | 2014 |
| Morocco | Université Mohammed VI - Des Sciences de la Santé | Private | International School of Public Health | 2014 | 2014 |
| Saudi Arabia | Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal Universitya | Public | College of Public Health | 2015 | 2015 |
| Egypt | American University in Cairo | Private | Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology | 2018 | 2019 |
| Somalia | Mogadishu University | Private | Information not available, neither by website nor by direct contact |
[i] oPt: occupied Palestinian territory.
a Not validated by response to the fact sheet.
Table 1b
Faculties of Medicine offering MPH programs, 2019.
| COUNTRY | UNIVERSITY | PRIVATE/ PUBLIC | FACULTY OF MEDICINE (FM) | UNIT AT FM OFFERING MPH | YEAR OF FM ESTABLISHMENT | YEAR OF MPH INITIATION |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lebanon | Saint Joseph University of Beirut | Private | Faculty of Medicine | Higher Institute of Public Health | 1883 | 2016 |
| Jordan | University of Jordan | Public | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Family and Community Medicine | 1971 | 2000 |
| Kuwait | Kuwait University of Health Sciences | Public | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Community Medicine and Behavioral Sciences | 1973 | 2013 |
| Jordan | Jordan University of Science and Technology | Public | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Public Health and Community Medicine | 1984 | 1999 |
| UAE | UAE University | Public | College of Medicine and Health Sciences | Institute of Public Health | 1984 | 2010 |
| Sudan | University of Medical Sciences and Technology | Private | Faculty of Medicine | Department of Public and Tropical Health | 1996 | 2002 |
| UAE | Gulf Medical University | Private | College of Medicine | Department of Community Medicine | 1998 | 2010 |
| oPt | An-Najah National University | Public | Faculty of Graduate Studies | Medical and Health Sciences Program | 1999 | 1999 |
| Saudi Arabia | Alfaisal University | Private | College of Medicine | MPH Program | 2002 | 2016 |
| Mauritania | University of Nouakchotta | Public | Faculty of Medicine | MPH Program | 2006 | 2008 |
[i] oPt: occupied Palestinian territory.
a Not validated by response to the fact sheet.
Figure 1
MPH programs in Faculties of Public Hralth (FPH) and Medicine (FM) in Arab Countries, 2019.
Note: The map is superimposed on a UNDP heatmap of Arab countries by Human Development Index.
Table 2
Number of MPH programs (end 2019) and MPH graduates (2018 and 2019) in Arab countries.
| COUNTRY | HDIA | POPULATIONB | MPH PROGRAMS PER 100 MILLION POPULATION | MPH PROGRAMS IN EACH COUNTRY DISTRIBUTED BY: | NUMBER OF GRADUATES FROM MPH PROGRAMS THAT GRADUATED STUDENTS AND REPORTED THE DATA | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DID NOT REPORT GRADUATES | DID NOT GRADUATE ANY STUDENTS | REPORTED AND GRADUATED STUDENTS | AY 2017–2018 | AY 2018–2019 | AVERAGE PER YEAR | AVERAGE PER 10 MILLION POPULATIONC | ||||
| Egypt | 0.700 | 100,388,073 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 5.0 | |
| Algeria | 0.759 | 43,053,054 | 0 | |||||||
| Sudan | 0.507 | 42,813,238 | 7 | 3 | 93 | 118 | 105.5 | 24.6 | ||
| Iraq | 0.689 | 39,309,783 | 0 | |||||||
| Morocco | 0.676 | 36,471,769 | 3 | 1 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 16.5 | ||
| Saudi Arabia | 0.857 | 34,268,528 | 9 | 2 | 1 | Not provided | Not provided | |||
| Yemen | 0.463 | 29,161,922 | 0 | |||||||
| Syria | 0.549 | 17,070,135 | 0 | |||||||
| Somalia | N/A | 15,442,905 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 46 | 84 | 65 | 42.1 | |
| Tunisia | 0.739 | 11,694,719 | 0 | |||||||
| Jordan | 0.723 | 10,101,694 | 20 | 2 | 25 | 32 | 28.5 | 28.2 | ||
| UAE | 0.866 | 9,770,529 | 31 | 3 | 16 | 31 | 23.5 | 24.1 | ||
| Lebanon | 0.757 | 6,855,713 | 73 | 5 | 115 | 105 | 110 | 160.5 | ||
| Libya | 0.708 | 6,777,452 | 0 | |||||||
| Oman | 0.834 | 4,974,986 | 0 | |||||||
| oPt | 0.690 | 4,685,306 | 64 | 3 | 99 | 61 | 80 | 170.7 | ||
| Mauritania | 0.527 | 4,525,696 | 22 | 1 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 44.2 | ||
| Kuwait | 0.808 | 4,207,083 | 48 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3.5 | 8.3 | |
| Qatar | 0.848 | 2,832,067 | 35 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 9.5 | 33.5 | ||
| Bahrain | 0.838 | 1,641,172 | 0 | |||||||
| Djibouti | 0.495 | 973,560 | 0 | |||||||
| Comoros | 0.538 | 850,886 | 0 | |||||||
| Total | 427,870,270 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 538 | 573 | 555.5 | 14.1 | |
[i] oPt: occupied Palestinian territory.
a UNDP Human Development Index (HDI) Ranking 2019, http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/2019-human-development-index-ranking.
b World Bank Population Data 2019, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/sp.pop.totl.
c The total population denominator (393,601,742) excludes Saudi Arabia.
Figure 2
Cumulative number of MPH programs initiated in Arab countries by Faculty, 1960–2019.
Figure 3
(A) Number of new MPH programs initiated in Arab countries by Faculty, period, and sub-region, 1960–2019: New MPH programs in Faculties of Public Health (FPH) by period and sub-region. (B) Number of new MPH programs initiated in Arab countries by Faculty, period, and sub-region, 1960–2019: New MPH programs in Faculties of Medicine (FM) by period and sub-region.
Figure 4
Percent of MPH programs offering courses in the main public health disciplines by Faculty, 2019.
Table 3
Number and percentage of public health concentrations offered by MPH programs by Faculty, 2019.
| CORE PUBLIC HEALTH DISCIPLINE OR OTHER | FACULTIES OF PUBLIC HEALTH (N = 18) | FACULTIES OF MEDICINE (N = 10) | TOTAL (N = 28) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO. | % | NO. | % | NO. | % | |
| General MPH (no concentration) | 5 | 28 | 6 | 60 | 11 | 39 |
| Epidemiology alone or with Biostatistics | 11 | 61 | 4 | 40 | 15 | 54 |
| Health Management and Policy | 8 | 44 | 5 | 50 | 13 | 46 |
| Health Promotion/ Health Educationa | 8 | 44 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 32 |
| Environmental and/or Occupational Health | 6 | 33 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 29 |
| Food and Nutrition | 3 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 |
| Reproductive Health/Maternal and Child Health | 2 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 11 |
| Tropical Health/Medical Entomology | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| Other fieldsb | 4 | 14 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 18 |
[i] a Includes Health Promotion, Community Health, and Health Education alone or in combination.
b Such as adolescent and school health, family medicine practice, geriatric health, mass gatherings (hajj/umrah), mental health, precision health, public health genetics and public health nursing.
Figure 5
Percent of MPH programsa with research and/or pratice requirements by Faculty, 2019.
a Data from 26/28 completed fact sheets excluding three faculties at University of Jordan and Qatar University where information did not easily fall into our categorization, and Mogadishu University for which we do not have information.