Master's Degree in Socio-Environmental Health

Postgraduate degree approved by the Higher Council of UNR Res. No. 441/2024,
Postgraduate degree with official recognition CONEAU Opinion, Act 634/24

Director: Facundo Fernandez
Co-director: Damian Verzenassi
Technical secretaryVerónica Möller

Teachers Council:

Registration is now open for the 2026 cycle.:
For information on the pre-registration procedure, required documentation and fees, send email.

:: RATIONALE:

La Master's Degree in Socio-Environmental Health It arises within the context of a profound environmental, health, and social crisis, signs of a CIVILIZATIONAL CRISIS that challenges traditional ways of understanding and addressing health processes. The hegemony of the positivist paradigm and dominant development models have contributed to fragmenting the relationship between society and nature, reducing health to biological and decontextualized perspectives.

From a complexity perspective, Socio-environmental Health proposes to overcome these fragmentations and incorporate the social, environmental, and territorial determinants of health. The climate crisis, air, water, and food pollution, multiple chemical exposures, and current production models are now recognized as central factors in the health-disease-care processes.

Given this scenario, training professionals with critical, interdisciplinary skills and a commitment to their communities becomes essential. The Master's Program in Socio-Environmental Health aims to contribute to this effort, understanding health as a social and historical process, a collective right, and a fundamental condition for a dignified life.

:: AIM:

General 

To train graduates in the field of Socio-environmental Health with the ability to develop territorial and community-based strategies for addressing socio-environmental problems from a health perspective, promoting research and knowledge production about socio-territorial transformations and their impacts on the health of communities.

:: DURATION AND MODALITY:

The Master's program comprises a total of 720 hours of coursework and 2280 hours dedicated to independent student work. The program will last... 2 years and a maximum period of 2 years will be granted for the presentation of the Thesis or Final Project.

Remote presence (Active student attendance with camera on is required; classes are not recorded since remote attendance is synchronous and not asynchronous.) A percentage of mandatory attendance is required for each curricular instance.

Character: Semi-structured 

:: GRADUATE PROFILE: 

El Master's Degree in Socio-Environmental Health He is a professional with solid training in the field of Socio-environmental Health, based on the study, research and practice in relation to socio-environmental problems and their link with the health of the communities and territories they inhabit. 

It will be able to: 

• To use scientific, social and instrumental knowledge in the recognition of problems related to the field of Socio-environmental Health. 
• Develop strategies to address socio-environmental problems and their impacts on the health of communities. 
• Describe and explain socio-environmental problems from the complexity of the processes of determination and their translation into the health-disease care-attention process of the community. 
• To analyze and understand the socio-environmental health problems and the development of civilizational-productive models that deepen them. 
• To produce knowledge in the field of Socio-environmental Health in the territories and with the communities that inhabit them.

:: ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:

• Graduates with Bachelor's degrees related to the field of Socio-environmental Health: Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Biochemistry, Dentistry, Nutrition, Speech Therapy, Kinesiology, Veterinary Medicine, Psychology, Anthropology, Law, Economics, Social Work, Educational Sciences and Political Science, issued by the Universidad Nacional de Rosario or equivalent degrees awarded by other legally recognized national, provincial or private Argentine universities. 
• Graduates with other undergraduate degrees not listed here. In these cases, the Academic Committee will decide on the applicant's admission after evaluating their credentials.  
• Applicants from legally recognized foreign universities are welcome. 
• Non-Spanish-speaking applicants require certification of proficiency in the Spanish language.
• Those who hold non-university higher education degrees of at least four (4) years in duration – and meet the prerequisites determined by the Academic Committee to verify that their training is compatible with the requirements of this program. The Academic Committee of the program will determine admission in all cases. 

:: CURRICULUM:

1. General Education Area

1.1. Socio-environmental health as a field of knowledge 

1.2. Tools for the analysis of health processes 

2. Area of ​​Specific Training

       2.1. Health in contexts of climate crisis 

       2.2. Health in contexts of extractivism 

       2.3. Food sovereignty as a care practice 

       2.4. Environmental pollution and its impacts on the health of communities 

       2.5. Urbanity, rurality and health 

       2.6. Complementary Activities 

       2.7. Laboratory for practical work in socio-environmental health 

3. Methodological Area and Preparation of Thesis or Final Project

      3.1. Research Methodology and Preparation of Thesis or Final Project 

      3.2. Thesis or Final Project

:: REPORTS: maestriasaludsocioambiental@gmail.com

Attached files:

CONEAU Opinion 2025-634