Practise Faculty of Public Health Diplomate Examination (DFPH) with a short sample and answer explanations. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
Exam outline and official sources
Faculty of Public Health (FPH), United Kingdom · DFPH, formerly the Part A examination: July 2005 syllabus; GMC-approved review on 13 October 2016; implementation October 2016; reviewed September 2022. No newer issuer syllabus was identified as of 6 November 2026. The assigned historical-name slug is preserved.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- Faculty of Public Health Diplomate Examination (DFPH) Syllabus
- Public Health Specialty Training Curriculum 2022, version 1.3
- Diplomate MFPH Examination Candidate Pack — March 2026
- CDC Field Epidemiology Manual: Designing and Conducting Analytic Studies in the Field
- CDC Field Epidemiology Manual: Analyzing and Interpreting Data
- Cochrane Handbook, Chapter 23: Including variants on randomized trials
- Public Health Technical Guidance: Overview of confidence intervals
- CDC Field Epidemiology Manual: Collecting and Analyzing Qualitative Data
- Cochrane Handbook, Chapter 15: Interpreting results and drawing conclusions
- National Cancer Institute: Cancer Screening Overview (PDQ), Health Professional Version
- National Cancer Institute: National Lung Screening Trial Questions and Answers
- Health and Safety Executive: Managing risk using PPE
- CDC Field Epidemiology Manual: Conducting a Field Investigation
- Michie, van Stralen and West: The behaviour change wheel
- Public Health Technical Guidance: Overview of standardisation
- ONS: Living longer and old-age dependency — what does the future hold?
- National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics: Incremental cost effectiveness ratio
- Fair Society, Healthy Lives: The Marmot Review
- HM Treasury: The Green Book 2026
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Establishing Measures
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Testing Changes
- Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership: Criteria and indicators of best practice in clinical audit
- CDC Principles of Epidemiology, Lesson 3, Section 2: Morbidity Frequency Measures
- UK National Screening Committee: Criteria for a population screening programme
- WHO: Herd immunity, lockdowns and COVID-19
- ONS: Guide to interpreting past and projected period and cohort life tables
- CDC Principles of Epidemiology, Lesson 5, Appendix A: Characteristics of Well-Conducted Surveillance
- National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics: Quality-adjusted life year
- HM Treasury: Green Book supplementary guidance — discounting
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Model for Improvement
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Forming the Team
Faculty of Public Health Diplomate Examination (DFPH)
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A cohort follows 200 exposed and 200 unexposed people, all initially free of the outcome, for one year with complete follow-up. The outcome occurs in 40 exposed and 10 unexposed people. What is the one-year risk ratio?
Faculty of Public Health Diplomate Examination (DFPH)
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Disease frequency — person-time and risk
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