Master’s degrees
These master’s degrees, offered by the institutions and departments of the Sorbonne University Alliance, allow students to explore topics at the intersection of medicine, social sciences, economics, technology and the humanities.
Health
Presentation
The Master 2 GEME Health is a Master’s degree aimed at students wishing to gain experience in global health, particularly around the concept of health for all, regardless of geographical origin. It will include a variety of courses on major diseases, mainly infectious but not exclusively, on the factors that impact human health, and will address political, economic and societal influences related to health inequalities.
The Master 2 Health GEME is based on the following key principles:
- Keeping human health at the heart of teaching and analysing all environmental and animal factors that have an impact on human health.
- Involving teachers from different disciplines (sociology, medicine, pharmacy, philosophy, epidemiology, veterinary medicine, economics, climatology, etc.) and from different backgrounds (from the North and South).
- Capitalising on existing courses at Sorbonne University.
- Being open to students from diverse backgrounds: 3 SU faculties (health sciences, sciences and engineering, arts and humanities) + more generalist grandes écoles (Polytechnique, Science Po, ENS, etc.) + other scientific or non-scientific courses.
- Encouraging project development and promoting scientific thinking rather than passive learning among students.
- Extended practical internship (6 months) to deepen practices and experience in global health.
Objectives
The objectives of the degreee are as follows:
- To provide a comprehensive overview of the scope of knowledge in global health, while clarifying the different concepts of global health, world health and “one health.”
- Share knowledge on the current state of medical research in terms of global health.
- Teach the methodological foundations of a scientific culture applied to global health issues.
- Help carry out a research project in an accredited laboratory for 6 months.
Prerequisites
The Master’s programme is aimed at students with a career plan related to global health, whether they are doctors, pharmacists, veterinarians who have completed the first year of a Master's degree in biological and medical sciences, students from professor training colleges and engineering, business and political science schools, or students who have completed the first year of a Master's degree or equivalent with a health component.
- Hold a Master's degree (BAC + 4).
- Very good knowledge of English.
- International experience desirable.
Career opportunities
Depending on the student’s profile, management positions in national and international organisations working in the field of global health (including health NGOs), PhDs in epidemiology, political science, sociology, etc.
Biomedical Humanities
This Master’s Degree in Philosophy, Biomedical Humanities track, offers a programme combining four characteristics:
- An approach to the philosophy of medicine and biology that combines the philosophy of science, the history of philosophy, ethics and theories of justice applied to the field of health.
- A multidisciplinary approach to issues relating to health, disease, the body and medicine, drawing on the arts (ancient and modern) and the humanities (history, law, economics, geography, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, literature and art history, information and communication sciences).
- Teaching in pairs, with cross-disciplinary approaches (literature and medicine, philosophy and medicine, history and medicine) offered by a professor in the humanities and a doctor or researcher in the field of medicine/biology.
- An anchoring of the programme in the biomedical professional environment (internships in hospitals, biomedical research laboratories, and health institutes).
The programme uses various types of tools (analysis of texts, images, films or pictorial representations, oral debate) to enable students to better analyse contemporary issues in the biomedical field and identify the practical challenges of health-related issues. It aims to improve oral and written communication skills through the rigorous use of argumentation and mastery of rhetoric. It also prepares students to design and produce an original research dissertation on a topic related to the biomedical and health fields, using a multidisciplinary approach.