Overview
The Master of Science in Public Health Sciences program, offered by Chulalongkorn’s College of Public Health Sciences (CPHS), is a multidisciplinary curriculum based on scientifically based research in Herbal Sciences, Biomolecular Technology, Protein Modifications, and Traditional Medicines.
This in-house, semester-based program provides various types and durations of study to respond to students’ needs as follows:
1. Scientific researches on safety, efficacy and quality of herbal medicines
- Herbology: herbal materials authentication using botanical, chemical and molecular techniques;
- Pharmacognostic specification of herbal materials with special reference to chemically active substances; biological activities of herbal materials;
- Qualitative and quantitative analytical techniques in herbal sciences;
- Aromatherapy: chemistry of essential oils and their therapeutic effects; extraction and chemical characterization of essential oils;
- Traditional medicine:
- In vitro investigation of safety, efficacy and quality of herbal remedy (examples of Herbal Sciences are plants, animals or minerals
- Extraction, isolation or purification of natural products from medicinal plants or some microorganisms.
- Chemistry of essential oils and their therapeutic effects.
- Standardization of herbal drugs
- Biological activities and underlying mechanisms of medicinal plants
- Development of natural-based products
2. Biomolecular technology
- High quality research in the field of molecular biology including basic knowledge in cellular and particle structures and functions of the cells; gene functions of cells, genetic materials, gene and gene functions; basic molecular biology techniques which may be used to study living organisms, using malaria as a case study model
- Biomolecular technology in infectious diseases
- In vitro cultivation and drug susceptibility test of malaria parasites
- DNA analysis and gene mutations by using molecular techniques
- Proteins analysis
- Genetic variation of organisms
- Gene diversity
3. Protein modifications
Development of new bioconjugation techniques based on organic chemistry using some modified biomolecules for in vitro or in vivo studies.
