Health research is a key element to improving life expectancy and quality for people around the globe, as well as wellbeing and sustainable human development. The main aim of this PhD programme is to train expert researchers in health and, specifically, in the field of epidemiology, global public health, health services and social care, by providing advanced, specialised and interdisciplinary training.

The comprehensive approach to health problems, new challenges in health systems and providing quality care require a multidisciplinary perspective. Public health professionals, services and policies are essential in controlling pandemics. Recently, epidemiology has played a more standout role and health problems must now be approached from a global perspective. Transmissible threats (such as the COVID-19 epidemic), as well as those linked to the effects of health conditions, climate change, migration, poverty and social inequality, represent major scientific, methodological, professional, organisation and global political challenges.

The lecturing staff comprises researchers from different areas of knowledge: nursing, medicine, physiotherapy, physical activity and sports science, biology, psychology, anthropology, social work, mathematics and computing. Most of our lecturers work in academe as teaching and research staff at the University of the Balearic Islands and IUNICS. Nonetheless, others has a background as researchers from the Primary Healthcare Research Unit in Majorca, healthcare professionals from the Balearic Islands Health Service (Ib-Salut) and researchers from the Balearic Islands Health Research Institute (IdISBA). All of them work together in different research groups linked to the programme’s different areas.