Interested in healthcare and wellbeing?

Are you curious about how health, behaviour and our living environment are connected? At Leiden University, you’ll explore how people grow up, age and live together in a changing world. From mental health to healthcare innovation, from lifestyle to healthcare policy: you’ll learn to understand societal challenges from both scientific and human perspectives to become a future healthcare professional. Discover which master's programmes at Leiden University match your interests.

Population Health Management

Solve health care’s biggest challenges by blending medicine, data, and public policy.

Health, Ageing and Society

Address the challenges of an ageing society with innovative approaches to health, wellbeing, and societal participation.

Medicine (Dutch taught programme)

Learn how to treat patients, prevent diseases and develop a critical scientific eye.

Health and Medical Psychology

Aqcuire knowledge about how health, illness, and recovery are affected by biopsychosocial factors.

Occupational Health Psychology

Integrate psychological insights with a focus on workers and their work environment.

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Why Leiden University?

Understand health through an interdisciplinary lens, combining insights from medicine, psychology, social sciences and policy.
From the start, you'll engage with real societal issues, such as mental wellbeing, healthcare innovation and public health challenges.
Work alongside top researchers and practitioners and develop skills that are directly applicable in healthcare, policy, and social innovation.
Thanks to close collaborations with municipalities, hospitals and knowledge institutes, you’ll connect with professionals and gain valuable experience while still studying.