Jointly led by three large organisations (Thailand’s Kasetsart University and France’s Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse and CIRAD), it offers students the opportunity to receive a double degree from two universities, Thai and French.

The InterRisk programme offers training in risk management using interactive teaching methods that combine theoretical courses, problem solving from real-life cases, field visits (for example, farm biodiversity audits), laboratory techniques (for example, disease diagnosis) and the use of innovative computer tools. The programme gives students real practical experience.

The InterRisk Master’s allows students to join an interdisciplinary network of professionals already involved in the One Health sector. At the end of this solid training, students will be able to access a wide range of career opportunities in the fields of public and animal health, as well as in ecology and the environment. It is also possible to continue the Master’s with scientific research through the pursuit of a PhD.

Teaching language

English

Non-English speaking people or those who have not taken an academic course in English must prove their level of English by communicating their score in an official English language test:

• Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)

• International English Language Testing System (IELTS)

• Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC)

Test results must have been within the past two years.

Location

Classes will take place at the Veterinary Faculty of Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand (with outstanding facilities and lots of green space).

Learning objective

The One Health concept recognises that animal, human and ecosystem health are interconnected. The InterRisk Master’s trains health risk managers using real-life cases, providing students with practical experience of field constraints. Six diseases (rabies, Japanese encephalitis, leptospirosis, cysticercosis, antibiotic resistance and influenza) are used as a common thread in the different teaching modules, studying them from different disciplinary perspectives (epidemiological, sociological and economic).

Relevant public

People with training in biology, human health or animal health, or any other related disciplines.

Some modules are open to professionals. See here.

Programme over 2 years

First year

• Infectiology: zoonoses and drug resistance
• Production systems, sector analysis
• Initiation to research protocols
• Scientific English

3-months internship (research institutes, governmental organisations, NGOs etc.)

Second year

(Direct admission possible, decision made by the teaching committee)

Prevention and control of zoonoses:

• Zoonoses
• Health ecology
• Research methodology

Statistics and Geographical Information Systems related to health:

• Advanced statistics
• Geographic Information Systems

Advanced quantitative epidemiology:

• Advanced epidemiology
• Risk analysis

Economic and social approaches to health:

• Social approaches to health risk
• Economics of animal health

Epidemiological surveillance

• Surveillance systems

6-month internship (Research institutes, governmental organisations, NGOs etc.)

See the modules open to professionals here

Get more details on the InterRisk International Master’s Degree website

Admission criteria

For the complete programme (M1 & M2)

Admission is possible at a Bachelor level in the following fields: economics, political or social sciences, medicine, pharmacy, biology, veterinary medicine, engineering school, agronomy, ecology and environmental sciences.

For direct access to the second year (M2)

Admission is automatic for students who have followed and validated the first year of the InterRisk programme. Students with a thesis in medicine, veterinary medicine or a diploma in veterinary medicine, those who have completed a Field Epidemiology Training Programme for Veterinarians or those who have successfully completed a Master’s degree in connection with public health can be admitted directly to the second year if the teaching committee agrees. The same is true for people with more than five years of professional experience in the fields of public and animal health.

Registration fees and scholarships

Registration fees

• Thai students: 130,400 THB per year
• International students: €5,000 per year

(This does not include travel or local living costs)

The price of the Master’s includes:

• Tuition fees at the three universities (KU, UPS and INP-ENVT)
• Teaching costs
• Costs of teaching material
• Costs linked to field visits

Scholarships

For more information contact the coordinators.

Get more details on the InterRisk International Master’s Degree website

Coordinators 

• Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)
• École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT)
• Veterinary Faculty, Kasetsart University

Partners

Southeast Asia

• Principal members of the GREASE network
• Veterinary Public Health Centre for Asia Pacific (VPHCAP), Chiang Mai University (CMU), Thailand
• Tropical Disease Research Laboratory (KKU-TDR), Khon Kaen University, Thailand
• Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University (MU), Thailand
• Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), Laos
• Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU), Vietnam
• OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), Sub-regional representation for Southeast Asia
• Food and Agriculture Organization, Regional office for Asia and the Pacific (FAO-RAP)
• Pasteur Institute, Cambodia (IPC)

France

• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS)
• Institut de recherche pour le développement (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, IRD)