The Faculty of Public Health of the Medical Academy LSMU trains specialists who can work in the reformed Lithuanian healthcare system and are able to compete in the newly opening labour market of the European Union.
The Faculty of Public Health of LSMU differs from other faculties of the University in its social and humanitarian orientation, the provision of integrated knowledge about health and the opportunity to acquire the speciality of health management, social work or health psychologist. This opens up great employment opportunities in the reformed Lithuanian healthcare system.
Knowledge about the health of the Lithuanian population, the possibilities of its improvement, the development and implementation of health programmes and the principles of health policy formation are accumulated here.
For the implementation of these tasks, the Faculty closely cooperates with various structural and functional departments of LSMU, academic and professional, non-governmental, state, business organisations and individuals of Lithuania and foreign countries.
The faculty has a scientific programme “Public Health Sciences”. The aim of the programme is to acquire and accumulate new knowledge to substantiate the principles of Lithuanian health policy, to improve the health, quality of life and health literacy of the population; to reveal new regularities of the impact of physical and social environmental factors on health, to search for new effective methods and tools for the control of these factors.
The continuous and productive work of researchers is illustrated by the large number of scientific publications and activities in research projects.
