Prerequisites
In order to be accepted, students are requested to comply with the specific regulations of their Master program (MSc. Health Sciences). We recommend Master students to successfully take part in one or more of our teaching modules (Public Health and Socio-Economic Aspects in NCD Prevention, Evaluation Methods in Public Health and Health Care, Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes).
Application process
Students who wish to start their master's thesis in the summer/winter semester must officially apply by email (php(at)sg.tum.de) no later than the end of January/June. After the respective deadline, we will contact you within one month after reviewing the applications to let you know whether we can offer you supervision or not.
Master theses should be written in English. If your work is very good, we will be happy to actively encourage and support you in bringing your results to publication or presenting them at an (inter)national symposium after the evaluation process has been completed. For more information, please read our guidelines for writing a master thesis.
To get an impression of what kind of master theses are written at our institute, you are welcome to check out past and currently supervised topics at the following link.
Application documents: Please send the following application documents to info.php(at)mh.tum.de:
- Curriculum vitae
- Current transcript of grades
- A letter of motivation of maximum one page (including which topics and methods interest you the most)
- If you already have a concrete topic idea, please also attach a short summary (max. 1 page) with literature sources (see Guidelines)
- Your preliminary time and work plan
We hope to be able to offer supervision to all interested students, but cannot guarantee this due to capacity constraints.
Templates and guidelines
Important: these guidelines do not replace the faculty guidelines on registration, execution and delivery of the thesis. They complement faculty guidelines for the Professorship of Public Health and Prevention. In case of doubt, faculty guidelines should prevail.
Examples of successfully completed Master's theses
Titel | Typ |
Legal smoking bans, smoking behavior and health: a global scoping review | Literatur Review |
A review of the effectiveness of app-based health interventions | Literatur Review |
Effectiveness of an app-based digital diabetes lifestyle intervention in patients | Literatur Review |
The effects of population-based blood pressure screening on blood pressure after three years: A regression discontinuity analysis | Empirical Analyse |
The causal effect of overweight and obesity on health care costs and quality of life in children and adolescents in Germany: An instrumental variable approach | Empirical Analyse |
The effect of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation on consumption among young people in Europe: a quasi-experimental study | Empirical Analyse |
Tobacco regulation and socioeconomic differences in smoking behavior - a descriptive trend analysis in Germany from 1998 to 2020 | Empirical Analyse |
The impact of interventions against risk factors for colorectal and pancreatic cancer in Germany: A simulation modeling study | Modeling Study |