The world is not prepared to face a pandemic, and beyond knowing if it will happen or not, it is a question of when it will happen. For this reason, the role that epidemiologists play is so important within the health unit and at certain government levels and public policy generation, because they have disciplinary information that allows them to observe health problems from a population and circumstantial perspective, which gives them a broad understanding of the issues that affect the world. The profound sociodemographic and migratory changes make greater academic training necessary; At AREANDINA we take on the challenge of improving the profile of professionals in the health sector and for this, the master's degree in Epidemiology provides conceptual and technological tools that allow the analysis of evidence for decision-making on health problems, at an individual and collective level, based on of the foundations of epidemiological surveillance and research, with the aim of optimizing public policies to have a better response capacity.

The Master's Degree in Epidemiology has contributed to the training of human talent in Santander, favoring the consolidation of epidemiological research in the region and in the country through the Industrial University of Santander as a strategy to comply with one of its institutional policies, including, that of social responsibility contemplated in the Institutional Project. “It is a matter of fully assuming the public condition of the University to respond to the national need for high-quality and relevant training, generating within it the knowledge, attitudes and innovative practices that allow thinking and transforming the country and the region with ethical sense and political responsibility ”.

The training of epidemiologists in the Master's program is justified given the advances in science and the need to train health professionals to generate new knowledge by conducting research according to the needs of the country. Through evidence-based practice, apply the knowledge generated in decision-making to contribute to improving the quality of health programs, offered both in the preventive field, at the community and individual level, as well as in the field of the clinic, providing tools to raise the quality of care and rationalization of resources.