Department of Medicine and Department of Health Sciences, European University Cyprus

The Department of Medicine aims to educate medical students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in accordance with the highest professional standards; to train competent and caring physicians to practice patient-centered medicine of the highest standard; and to identify and answer fundamental questions in the mechanisms, prevention and treatment of disease, in health care delivery and in the basic biomedical sciences. The Department of Health Sciences aims to educate health professionals, scientists and researchers in accordance with the highest professional standards; to create dedicated, expert and caring healthcare professionals; to prepare graduates for service and leadership in the protection, prevention and maintenance of health for improving quality of life and wellbeing of people; to foster research for contribution to Health Sciences. The educational activities of the two Departments include the delivery of the interdepartmental Master of Science in Public Health and Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health. Research activities are diverse on areas such as cardiovascular disease prevention, diabetes, mental health, dementia, public health nutrition, prevention and control of infectious diseases, molecular epidemiology, spatial epidemiology, health inequalities and applications of artificial intelligence in health and healthcare.
The department became a member of EUPHA in April 2020.

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