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Doctorate in Health Science (DHS) | MQF Level 8

Program Duration: 4,500 Total Hours
Contact Component: 1,900 Hours
Minimum Pass: 50% (Grade D)

Course Module Resources

D801

Transforming Services / Delivering Quality

Focus: TQM, Lean/Six Sigma, and Service Innovation.

D802

Implementation Science

Focus: Barrier Analysis & Evidence-Based Dissemination.

D803

Research Methods (Qual & Quant)

Focus: Epistemologies, RCTs, and Mixed Methodologies.

D804

Literature Review & Proposal

Focus: The Matrix Method & Publishable Systematic Reviews.

D805

Doctoral Thesis

Requirement: 50,000 – 60,000 Word Original Contribution.

Global Health Discovery & General Research

Resources to support "reading widely" and identifying "new avenues of enquiry" for doctoral research[cite: 8, 181].

WHO IRIS Repository

Access global policy, technical guidelines, and health statistics.

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DOAJ Search

Directory of Open Access Journals across all health science disciplines.

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IHRI Shared 'Zotero'

Our curated library of supplementary contemporary articles.

Open Library →