On 13 October 2022 at 2 PM, the deans of five faculties of Masaryk University met at the FEA MU to solemnly confirm their cooperation in the preparation of an interdisciplinary interfaculty AHE study programme.
The Faculty of Economics and Administration participates in the development of the programme as a coordinator and cooperates with the Faculty of Pharmacy, the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Social Studies and the Faculty of Law of MU. Together they will develop courses for the new study programme, which is still missing in the Central European region.
A broad foundation with a flexible choice of theses' topics will allow students to focus on several areas such as health policy, health economics, or regulatory frameworks in pharmaceuticals or medical technology.
Its graduates thus have the prerequisites to be qualified healthcare system designers for the future, given the unique mix of medical, managerial and communication professionalism.
The World Health Organization (WHO) in the Czech Republic and leading academic institutions, including the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Masaryk University, signed a cooperation agreement on March 11, 2025. The goal is to address urgent challenges in Czech public healthcare and strengthen collaboration in modernizing the healthcare system and education.
Jakub Červený, a researcher and lecturer in the new Master's Programme in Applied Health Economics, is an analyst at the Slovak Ministry of Health. His research was devoted to regional differences in health care utilisation and the likelihood of survival of patients after a heart attack during outpatient treatment. He is now coming to ECON MUNI where he will teach future health economists, among other things, how to process health-related data.
