Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Public Health in Disasters

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ERASMUS MUNDUS FULL FUNDED SCHOLARSHIP

With the growing frequency of disasters every year and continuing unrest and casualties in different parts of the globe, disaster risk reduction and public health responses to communities in distress have become a constant worldwide need.

And that is exactly what you will learn in EMJMDPHID (Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree in Public Health in Disasters).

THE APPLICATION PORTAL IS OPEN TILL:
15 January, 2025 (11:59 PM, CET +1)



Visit the EMJMDPHID official website
https://masterpublichealthdisasters.eu/

Check what you will learn in this program
https://masterpublichealthdisasters.eu/objectives-and.../

Check the universities where you will study
https://masterpublichealthdisasters.eu/university.../

Check the timetable of different semesters
https://masterpublichealthdisasters.eu/timetable/

Learn the admission and selection criteria
https://masterpublichealthdisasters.eu/admission-and.../

Application portal
https://emjmdphid.em.uniovi.es/emjm_phid_2.html

For further information, please email
Program: [email protected]
Program representative (Nasir): [email protected]

The application portal is now open for the
ERASMUS MUNDUS FULL FUNDED SCHOLARSHIP IN EMJMDPHID
(Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Public Health in Disasters)

If you are concerned about growing distress worldwide caused by disasters and interested in health responses to communities in need in the aftermath of disasters, if you have a humanitarian heart that worries about public health issues and human rights in this context, then check out the EMJMDPHID programme.



Visit the EMJMDPHID official website
https://masterpublichealthdisasters.eu/

Check what you will learn in this program
https://masterpublichealthdisasters.eu/objectives-and-learning-outcomes/

Check the universities where you will study
https://masterpublichealthdisasters.eu/university-consortium-and-coordinators/

Check the timetable of different semesters
https://masterpublichealthdisasters.eu/timetable/

Learn the admission and selection criteria
https://masterpublichealthdisasters.eu/admission-and-selection-criteria/

Application portal
https://emjmdphid.em.uniovi.es/emjm_phid_2.html

For further information, please email
Program: [email protected]
Program representative (Nasir): [email protected]

EMJMDPHID has welcomed a significant number of scholars from to its programme so far. Bangladesh is a South Asian country located on the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta and has the Bay of Bengal in the south.

It is common knowledge that, because of its geographical location, this land is prone to different nature-related disasters, such as cyclones, floods, earthquakes, etc. But what many people don't know about is the lush green beauty it possesses.

From the green and yellow fields to the gray and blue rivers, from the bustling cities and towns full of life to the quiet and lonely mountains and forests, Bangladesh is abundant in nature that grows boldly without any care. Here are some photos to portray a different picture of Bangladesh.

Written and photographed by Nasir, a student from the previous EMJMDPHID cohort, 2022-24.
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarker-mohammad-nasrullah1128/

The Erasmus Mundus Association ( ) is a non-profit volunteer-based association for students and alumni of Erasmus Mundus Master and Doctoral programmes made up of the students and alumni themselves. Over 30,000 students have taken part in Erasmus Mundus courses so far. Over 16,000 of them are now EMA members, including the volunteers who run it!

EMA works around the clock to promote the Erasmus Mundus courses and improve the Erasmus experience of the students. It connects students with the alumni and other scholars in an attempt to build networks and professional connections.

EMA is divided into several units. A look at the functions of these units will help you understand the overall function of the association.


1. Student & Alumni Relations Unit: This unit focuses specifically on past, present, and future students of the Erasmus+ Higher Education Programmes.

2. Policy & Quality Assurance Unit: The Policy & Quality Assurance Unit (PQAU) is tasked with creating all policy documents, both internally and externally, with the goal of transparency in all statements. This unit also collaborates on multidisciplinary projects to help ensure the excellence, quality, and efficiency of all Erasmus Mundus programmes.

3. Outreach & Capacity Building Unit: EMA's Outreach and Capacity Building Unit (OCBU) focuses on representing EMA globally, promoting the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters (EMJM) across the world, creating an international network among EMJM alumni and external parties, and providing capacity-building opportunities for EMA.

4. Research & Innovation Unit: The Research & Innovation Unit of EMA (R&I) consists of motivated members who strive to assist the researchers of EMA. Members of the unit conduct workshops, organise webinars, and create research guidelines, amongst others.


1. Legal & Internal Affairs Unit: The Legal & Internal Affairs (LIA) Unit aims to ensure the lawfulness of EMA's operation and activities, to create and comply with all internal and external legal requirements, and to safeguard the association's interest in relation to all parties, whether within or outside, by guaranteeing conformity with all laws and regulations.

2. Finance Management Unit: EMA’s Finance Management Unit (FMU) is in charge of ensuring correct and transparent administration of EMA's financial resources, as well as managing the financial aspect of all the strategic alliances, projects, and members.

3. Talent Management Unit: EMA’s Talent Management Unit focuses on recruiting, onboarding, strengthening the network between units, professional development of the volunteers and providing support and documents to EMA's volunteers. The work of "EMA Volunteers" spreads all over the world and allows EMA to exist and provide its services.


1. Project Support Unit: This unit focuses specifically on managing and maintaining the relationship between EMA and ESAA and between EMA and any other third parties that participate in joint projects. It also provides guidance and support to EMA members to propose, develop, and successfully carry out the projects backed by the Association.

2. Communication & IT Unit: EMA’s Communications and IT (CIT) unit provides support to EMA by developing and implementing both an external and internal communications strategy and providing EMA with the necessary tools and platforms to carry out these strategies.

3. Partnership Development Unit: EMA’s Partnership Development Unit seeks out and manages all relevant partners, sponsors, strategic alliances, and any stakeholders of EMA.

Writes Nasir, a student from the previous EMJMDPHID cohort of 2022-2024 and a volunteer of EMA.
LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/sarker-mohammad-nasrullah-24935a200

** All disasters are hazards, but all hazards are not disasters. **

A is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability, and capacity, leading to one or more of the following: human, material, economic, and environmental losses and impacts (https://www.undrr.org/).

Whereas a is a natural process or phenomenon that may pose negative impacts on the economy, society, and ecology, including both natural factors and human factors that are associated with the natural ones (https://www.undrr.org/).

Hazards do not necessarily cause any destruction to life and property, but they are the origin of disasters. A hazard becomes a disaster when the potential to cause destruction or harm to life and property of humans is fulfilled. If an earthquake were to hit a mountain with no human community, it would simply be a natural phenomenon or a natural hazard.

Contrary to popular belief, natural hazards alone do not result in disasters. When they intersect with human activities and vulnerable assets, these hazards turn into catastrophic events that lead to disasters. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) emphasizes that human actions such as deforestation, urbanization, and inadequate infrastructure worsen the impacts of events like floods, earthquakes, and storms. For instance, building in flood-prone areas increases the vulnerability to floods, transforming a hazard into a possible devastating disaster for communities settled close to rivers (https://unu.edu/ehs).

Just as human actions can cause disasters, they can also prevent them. Ultimately, disasters do not occur in isolation from human influence. The decisions and behaviors of individuals and societies significantly shape the magnitude and impact of hazards. Rather than despair, this is a cause for hope. By changing our behaviors and actions, we can directly make a positive influence to prevent hazards from turning into disasters or minimize disaster impacts. Understanding why disasters occur in the first place helps in creating strategies to address their root causes and identify long-term solutions (https://unu.edu/ehs).

Writes Kehinde Asake Adebowale, a student from the latest EMJMDPHID cohort 2024-26
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kehinde-asake-adebowale/

Every disaster comes with several risks. Risk of losing lives, risk of injuries, financial risks, environmental risks, etc. Disaster risk reduction refers to strategies adopted to reduce these risks and make communities more resilient against disasters.


Disaster and risk reduction is not the work of a single organization; collaboration between different stakeholders is much needed. Here are some categories of people and organizations who help in disaster and risk reduction:

International Organizations:
1. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR): They have the responsibility for disaster risk reduction activities globally.
2. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC): They also promote activities that help in disaster risk reduction and humanitarian aid.
3. World Bank: Facilitates disaster risk management and risk finance.
4. Oxfam: Aims at providing humanitarian assistance and promoting disaster risk reduction.
5. Save the Children: Engages in projects that are geared towards child focused disaster risk management.
6. CARE: The Cooperative Assistance Relief Everywhere (CARE) advocates for disaster risk reduction and also assists in humanitarian activities.

Government Representatives:
1. National Disaster Management Authorities: Has the role of planning for disaster and coordinating all actors during a given disaster situation.
2. Emergency Management Directors: In charge of the coordination of the emergency preparedness cycle.
3. Ministers of Interior / Home Affairs / Disaster Management: Charged with the authority for disaster and national security concerns.
4. Local Government Units:
5. Mayors/City Managers: Responsible for the planning of the local area plans on disaster risk reduction.
6. Municipal Local Emergency Management Officers: Manage response and recovery coordination.
7. Local Councilors / Chiefs, and Sub Chiefs: Work with the community to build disaster resilience.

Academia and Research:
1. Disaster Researchers: Study disaster risk management and building community resilience.
2. Universities: Undertake research, education, and training.
3. Think Tanks: Conduct policy analysis and provide advice.

Private Sector:
1. Insurance Companies: Facilitate the transfer of risk.
2. Technology Companies: Create disaster-resistant structures and technologies.
3. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Initiatives: Promote measures for reducing losses in case of disasters or other crisis situations.

Community Members:
1. Volunteers: Assist in the prompt response to the disaster and its effects.
2. Local Business Owners: Help in the rebuilding efforts of the local and national economies.
3. Individuals with Disabilities: Help in better understanding the vulnerability of people with specific requirements for disaster risk reduction.

Other Stakeholders:
1. Media: Social media marginalises the community but promotes community education towards dissemination of effective messages.
2. Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs): Facilitate promotion and strengthening of communities affected by irreversible developments and provide humanitarian assistance.
3. International Financial Institutions: Render financial support and supervisory ability.

It is contended that effective disaster and risk reduction cannot be implemented in an isolated manner by any of these stakeholders. That is why it is crucial to know who the stakeholders are to ensure a comprehensive strategy to mitigate and respond to disasters.

The photo shows Mary Etta (Enare), the writer of this post from EMJMDPHID 2024–2026 cohort
LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-etta-448787177?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

When we hear Spain 🇪🇦, cities like Barcelona, Madrid surface in our mind mostly. However, there is a small, calm quiet place called Oviedo in the Principality of Asturias holding a historic University that has been hosting Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Public Health in Disasters (EMJMPHID) since 2013.

🎓The University of Oviedo (Universidad de Oviedo in Spanish) is one of the three universities in theconsortium of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree in Public Health in Disasters (EMJMDPHID). It isa public university in Asturias, a place surrounded by Cantabrian mountains and the mighty Atlantic Ocean.It is the only university in the region and has three campuses and research centres, located in Oviedo,Gijón, and Mieres. The University of Oviedo, the academic institution of higher education in Oviedo, boasts over 400 years of history combining tradition and modernity. Its historic building has witnessed memorable events such as the French Revolution and the Spanish Civil War.
However, the University of Oviedo is much more than its history. Each year, thousands of students, professors, researchers, and administrative staff pass through its modern facilities, located in various parts of the Principality of Asturias. 80% of the research conducted in Asturias bears the University of Oviedo’s brand. The University of Oviedo offers 120 degrees in a complete academic offering in all branches of
knowledge, bilingual pathways, double degrees with international universities, Erasmus Mundus, andinter-university master’s degrees in collaboration with over 250 companies. Currently, the University of
Oviedo has nearly 28,000 students, more than a thousand of whom are international.

In 2009, the Universidad de Oviedo was labelled as a Campus of International Excellence by theGovernment of Spain. The CEI recognition was based on the “Ad Futurum” initiative, whose objectives are
fostering excellence in research, development, and innovation, with a special focus on biomedicine & health, and in which some of the teachers and researchers of the Department of Medicine are actively involved. In 2012, the University of Oviedo was included by the University of Cambridge in the list ofworld-excellence universities.

In fine words, the university has all the strengths of an institution well-established in its territory withhundreds of years of history, yet it looks to the future with enthusiasm and ambition.

Come, see, and enjoy!🍀

· University website: https://www.uniovi.es/
· Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuVgsgjVPdo
· EMJMPHID website: https://masterpublichealthdisasters.eu/university-consortium-and-coordinators/

Writes Sharmin Ahmed, a student from the latest EMJMDPHID 2024-2026 cohort.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharmin-ahmed-03421a136/

Over the decades, there has been an unprecedented increase in the scope and intensity of disasters worldwide, ranging from floods, landslides, tsunamis, earthquakes, etc. That is why it is important to prevent and mitigate the risks that disasters pose to people, economies, and ecosystems.

This burden to ensure that our communities are resilient to both natural and man-made disasters falls not only on governments and the international community, but more importantly on us at the local level to recover from and build more sustainable communities.

Prevention and response to disasters is .
Let’s do our part!



[Writes Caroline, a student of the latest EMJMDPHID 2024-2026 cohort.
LinkedIn profile: https://lnkd.in/duRTjYpM ]

“Life-changing” is the best way to describe my Erasmus journey in the Public Health in Disasters masters program at Oviedo University, Spain, and Karolinska Institute, Sweden. I’m a medical doctor and public health professional from Yemen with over five years of experience working in humanitarian settings with international NGOs and the UN. This program gave me the chance to expand my horizons. From Yemen to the world, I lived abroad, travelled solo, explored new cultures, and built lifetime friendships. I engaged in thought-provoking discussions with students and lecturers from across the globe, gaining a degree from a top-ranked university. Highly recommend it to anyone looking to grow personally and professionally!

Writes Sahar AlHakimi, a proud alumni of the EMJMDPHID from Yemen.

Sahar’s LinkedIn profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahar-a-869878120?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

Although EMJMDPHID and EMA have promoted each other in the past, this is the first time they have come to an official agreement to be partners and support each other in the excellent work being done on both ends! 💙

Today, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between these two parties! 🎉

We all look forward to many fruitful collaborations in the upcoming days... 🤝

🎓 Join the Erasmus Mundus Master's in Public Health in Disasters!

Passionate about public health in disaster situations? Don't miss your chance to apply for the EMJM PHID program!

📅 Application Info:
- Application Procedure: Oct 1, 2023
- Submission Deadline: Jan 15, 2024

ℹ️ Program Highlights:
- Joint program by leading universities
- Sponsored by the European Union
- High-quality education in public health in disaster

Apply now: https://masterpublichealthdisasters.eu/

🌍 Today is World Hepatitis Day! 🩺

On 28 July, we unite to amplify our efforts against hepatitis on both national and international levels. Let's seize this opportunity to inspire action and engagement from individuals, partners, and the public, highlighting the need for a robust global response as emphasized in the WHO's Global Hepatitis Report of 2017.

To achieve our global elimination goals by 2030, addressing the crucial gap in testing and treatment coverage is paramount.

Remember, you have one life, and you have one liver. Hepatitis can have a devastating impact on both.

While your liver diligently performs over 500 vital functions every single day to keep you alive, viral hepatitis remains silent, only revealing symptoms in advanced stages. Among the various types of hepatitis viruses (A to E), hepatitis B and C pose the most significant concerns, causing nearly 8000 new infections every day, many of which go undetected.(WHO)

The consequences are staggering: over one million hepatitis-related deaths annually, translating to one new chronic infection every ten seconds. Indeed, liver health is fundamental to human health.

Yet, there is hope! Countless hepatitis-related deaths can be prevented through available vaccines and effective treatments for hepatitis B, and a cure for hepatitis C. You have the power to protect yourself and your loved ones.

Let's take action together! Reach out to your local healthcare provider to learn how you can safeguard yourself from hepatitis. Together, we can build a healthier and hepatitis-free world. 💚