Calls for applicants are opened annually in the second half of the year, in the months of September/October. After passing the call process, academic activities begin in the first semester of the year, period February - June.

Complete information about the registration and admission process for postgraduate academic programs can be found on the page:

http://admisiones.univalle.edu.co/new/_new/posgrados/#oferta

Check registration requirements and dates HERE.

Publication of results: The Admissions area will publish the results on the website: http://admisiones.univalle.edu.co/

Registration fee: 30% of the current SMMLV.
*Consult Here the Minimum Monthly Wage in Force in Colombia

The Universidad del Valle offers the possibility of financing, dividing the total receipt into three installments to pay month by month. Please note that this implies a surcharge of 3% of the financial rights for those who take this option. (Res. N°1544-2002 rectory)

Discounts and exemptions: The University provides 10% of the basic tuition fee for voting purposes in accordance with the guidelines in force at the time of issuance of the payment receipt.

For more information refer to http://matriculafinanciera.univalle.edu.co/ 

The Doctorate in Health proposal is a novel offer in the field of advanced education in the country and responds to needs identified at the local, regional, national and international level in four basic aspects:

1. Understand health as a complex problem that requires systemic solutions and interventions.
2. Generate knowledge and innovation through advanced research in the field of health.
3. Increase the number and quality of its doctors in the country.
4. To urgently train leaders and decision makers with the necessary skills to effectively contribute to transforming health conditions in the communities of the country or wherever required, making use of multi, inter and transdisciplinarity.

In this way, the academic Doctorate in Health program responds to a need to transform the way of addressing community health, emphasizing research that promotes the promotion and maintenance of the health of subjects and their communities. To this end, a multi, inter or transdisciplinary approach is opened that brings together researchers from different disciplines to contribute to the study of health, with a holistic vision based on the Social Sciences, Humanities and the field of health. This order of ideas, the Doctorate aims to advance in the construction of objective conditions and build its own experience, to achieve interdisciplinary work and later transdisciplinary in its work. 

Professional Profile

The graduate of the Doctorate in Health will be able to:

• Carry out disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research in health in an autonomous manner through research groups, research centers and/or institutions providing health services.
• Propose innovations in approaches and training of human resources through research.
• Propose alternative solutions to political, cultural and social problems that affect the health of people and communities.
• Participate in the planning, development and evaluation of human talent training programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
• Critically appropriate theoretical knowledge and the management of research methods to support the generation of health knowledge.
• Critically analyze scientific health literature
• Plan, execute and evaluate health policies that seek to maintain or restore the health of individuals, groups and communities.
• Understand and assume their ethical and professional responsibility and frame all their actions within the values, principles and commitments that define the Ethos of the Universidad del Valle, ethics and bioethics in health.

Occupational Profile 

• Graduates of the Doctorate in Health may work in Institutes, Centers and/or Research Groups leading health research with multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary groups.
• Manage health intervention programs and as well as research centers linked to both educational and healthcare institutions.
• To be consultants and advisors for the design, application and evaluation of health policies that promote the improvement of quality of life and health at both the individual and population levels.
• Hold management positions with responsibility for making decisions related to individual, community and/or population health.
• Promote and disseminate scientific production that allows the transfer and application of research findings in the operation of the health system, as well as in the processes for generating knowledge.

The Academic Doctorate Program in Health has a flexible, individualized, research-focused curricular structure based on a credit system. A total of at least 90 credits is required, of which 18 correspond to the Interdisciplinary Foundation component; 12 to the Foundation of the Field of Knowledge component; 50 to the research component and the Electives component.

 Curricular structure

Interested parties should contact a teacher related to the area of ​​their interest before starting the registration process. Currently, the following research groups have been linked to the program, however you can contact other research groups that are linked to the Universidad del Valle. 

Click on the button if you want to know all the Research Groups that currently exist in the Faculty of Health

To qualify for the title of Doctor of Health, it is required:

• Take and pass a minimum number of 90 credits.
• Have passed the subjects and activities of your program with a cumulative average greater than or equal to 75% of the current grading scale.
• Be a Candidate for the title of Doctor, which implies having passed the qualifying exam.
• Have written, supported and approved the Doctoral Thesis.
• Have published or had an original research article accepted for publication in an indexed scientific journal. The article must deal with a chapter, chapters, or part of a chapter of the doctoral dissertation and the student must be the first author of it.
• Be at peace and safe in all respects with the Program and the University.
• Have been a regular student of the program at the Universidad del Valle for the minimum time established by the general postgraduate regulations that are in force..
• Cumplir con los requisitos estipulados en las normas de la Universidad del Valle vigentes para programas de Doctorado.