Through a multidisciplinary combination of sociology, psychology and public health science, the Master's programme "Population Health: Societal and Individual Perspectives" will provide a broad knowledge on the links between society and health, including social policies and social stratification; psychobiological processes, stress and health behaviours; life course and developmental perspectives on health; international health; and a special attention is paid to understand and use quantitative methods.

Within the Master's programme, most courses are available for other students as well. Priority for these courses will be given to students within the Master programme in Population Health. Also, we provide some advanced-level courses outside the programme.

The post-graduate programme at CHESS was launched in January 2008 through a grant from the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS). It currently comprises 12 doctoral students in sociology, psychology and medicine, affiliated to seven different departments at Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet. The overarching purpose of this programme is to serve as a resource for the participants of the programme by adding to existing researcher training at Stockholm University, Karolinska Institutet and other universities in the area of Human Society and Health.