Your future

After you’ve completed the master's programme in Health Education and Promotion, you'll be an expert in promoting health and well-being. You could pursue a career at health institutes, consultancies, insurance companies, governments and academia. Experience shows that all students rapidly find good jobs, sometimes even before graduation.

Career paths

Health institutes
At regional, national and international health institutes, Health Education and Promotion graduates can be found working on both preventative and awareness campaigns. But they also work on intervention development and help evaluate health education strategies.

Consultancy
At consultancies, graduates provide national and international organisations with advice on how to develop health interventions or improve health education strategies.

Governments
Some Health Education and Promotion graduates opt for a career working for a local or national government where they work on a broad range of health initiatives, ranging from the prevention of infectious diseases to healthy diets and exercise promotion campaigns.

Academia
The programme will also provide you with a solid scientific background. A career as a PhD student will therefore also be open to you.

Alumni@Work

Graduates have found positions as:

Research Associate in Population Health at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore
Workplace Health Promotion Specialist at Arvato Services Healthcare Germany GmbH Logistikdienstleister
Prevention Advisor Psychosocial Aspects at IDEWE, Belgium
Researcher at Fontys Hogescholen, NL
Research Assistant at Centre for Hip Health and Mobility, Vancouver, Canada
Management Trainee at High Select BV, NL
Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Alumni stories

Michelle, Omnichannel Project Manager North Europe at Sanofi

In order to pursue a master’s degree that combines health and communication, Michelle Vellinga moved from Amsterdam to our UM-community in Maastricht. In her own words, choosing Maastricht University was the best decision she made during her student life.

Caroline Coeckelbergh - never too old for sun protection

Despite widespread awareness campaigns and well-known prevention strategies, the number of skin cancer cases continues to rise. It is now the most common form of cancer in the Netherlands, particularly among people over the age of 65. According to Caroline Coeckelbergh, alumna of the master’s programme in Health Education and Promotion, older adults acknowledge the risks of sun exposure, yet paradoxically underestimate their vulnerability - precisely because of their age.