Your future
Graduates find career opportunities in a wide range of organisations, including health institutes, consultancies, insurance companies, government agencies, and academia. Many students secure meaningful positions as experts in the field, who turn their knowledge and skills into real-world impact.
Career paths
Health institutes
At regional, national and international health institutes, Health 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 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
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.