香港大学公共卫生硕士专业课程内容广泛，目标是通过认识及分析最新的卫生保健问题以及健康促进项目的进展，实施和评估，以培养内科医师、牙医、护士、其它卫生专业人士、医学及公共卫生研究人员和政策分析人士在公共卫生方面的领导技能 。 香港大学公共卫生硕士课程可以让学生获得以下能力：分析并解读流行病学资料；分析健康卫生需求；甄别促进健康的政策；评估医疗卫生服务品质；及整合跨学科的知识和技能。 香港大学公共卫生硕士课程可作为以下考试的准备课程：让医生参加的香港社会医学学院公共卫生医疗类别第一阶段院士资格考试，让医生和其它卫生专业人士参加的英国皇家内科医学学院公共卫生学院院士资格和文凭考试，以及香港社会医学学院医学管理类别的第一阶段院士资格考试。

Public Health Practice

1、Introduction to epidemiology

2、Introduction to biostatistics

3、Principles of public health

4、Emerging infectious diseases: Ecology, evolution and multi-host transmission dynamics

5、Environmental health hazards and interventions

6、Health and society

7、Health policy and politics

8、Health communication

9、Health economics for public health

10、Health promotion and health education

11、Human health: Futures in a globalized world

12、Introductory public health genomics

13、Qualitative health research

14、Psychosocial issues in health and illness

15、The practice of public health

Epidemiology and Biostatistics

1、Introduction to epidemiology

2、Introduction to biostatistics

3、Principles of public health

4、Advanced clinical epidemiology and decision analysis

5、Advanced epidemiological methods

6、Advanced statistical methods I – experimental and quasi experimental designs and data analysis

7、Advanced statistical methods II – analysis of complex data

8、Environmental health assessments

9、Evidence-based practice: An introduction to clinical epidemiology and decision analysis

10、Infectious disease epidemiology

11、Measurement in health

Infectious Diseases

1、Introduction to epidemiology

2、Introduction to biostatistics

3、Principles of public health

4、Advanced epidemiological methods

5、Advanced statistical methods I – experimental and quasi experimental designs and data analysis

6、Advanced statistical methods II – analysis of complex data

7、Emerging infectious diseases: ecology, evolution and multi-host transmission dynamics

8、Historical and contemporary perspectives of infectious diseases

9、Infectious disease epidemiology

10、Infectious disease modelling