Presentation
YEAR OF CREATION
The Program was created in 1996 as the Graduate Program in Public Health, offering a master’s degree. As of 2009, it changed its nomenclature to the Graduate Program in Collective Health and began offering master’s and doctoral programs.
MISSION
The Graduate Program in Collective Health of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (PPGSC/UFSC) has as its mission the generalist training at Master’s, Doctoral, and Postdoctoral levels in the field of collective health, seeking to articulate in this training process the three fundamental nuclei: social sciences and humanities in health, epidemiology, and policy, planning, and management in health. Since the implementation of the Doctoral Program in 2009, the program has chosen to renounce the areas of concentration adopted, seeking to strengthen the generalist vision of Collective Health by integrating its knowledge cores. For registration purposes at CAPES, the area of concentration adopted is Collective Health.
OBJECTIVES
- Training professionals in health and related areas for education, research, and management in health, aiming at the oriented realization of advanced studies in the field of Collective Health for producing knowledge and research;
- Train people endowed with full autonomy in the development of research and teaching in higher education, focusing on the objects and fields of Collective Health;
- Contribute to the knowledge of the area of Collective Health through research and studies that give rise to dissertations and theses, with wide dissemination in important journals in the area, scientific events, and other means of easy access;
- Contribute to the training in collective health of professors and researchers from educational institutions located in regions of the country with a lack of professionals with such qualifications, especially in the DINTER modality;
- Contribute to training masters and doctors capable of qualifying health care and management by producing policies, programs, and actions of excellence in collective health.
TRAINING
At the Master’s level, the graduate receives general training covering the knowledge cores that comprise the Collective Health field (Social Sciences and Humanities in Health, Epidemiology, and Policy, Planning, and Management in Health). This is complemented by deepening an object of Collective Health studied in the thesis from a line of program research.
In the Doctoral Program, the graduate also undergoes generalist training in Collective Health, with a deepening in one of the lines of research. The in-depth knowledge will be reflected in the theme and object of research, whose reflections will include articulation with the areas of knowledge of Collective Health.
RECOGNITION
The program has maintained its quality, as expressed in the score obtained in the CAPES evaluation, which results from periodic evaluations of graduate programs in the country. The score, ranging from 1 to 7, reflects a set of characteristics, including the analysis of physical space, the quantity, and, especially, the quality of the intellectual production of professors, master’s, and doctoral students.
In the last quadrennial evaluation, the PPGSC/UFSC rose to SCore 6 (six) in the CAPES Quadrennial Evaluation. This evaluation reflects the commitment of each professor and student in the process that unites education, science, and collective health in an ethical-political, critical, and creative perspective with responsibility and social commitment, thus contributing to the collective construction of excellence of the PPGSC/UFSC.
| Semester | Score |
| 2007-2009 | 5 |
| 2010-2012 | 5 |
| 2013-2017 | 5 |
| 2017-2020 | 5 |
| 2021-2024 | 6 |
To verify the recognition of PPGSC/UFSC in Capes, access the website (https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/) and click on the menu “Cursos Avaliados e Reconhecidos”.
To access the UFSC Re-accreditation Ordinance, access the link: Recredenciamento-Portaria-nº-134-de-27-de-fevereiro-de-2013.