The Graduate Program in Decision and Health Models (PPGMDS) has an interdisciplinary character, involving the areas of Exact and Health Sciences. It consists of professors from the Departments of Statistics, Informatics, Clinical Nursing, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Speech Therapy, Nutrition, Social Dentistry and Health Promotion. It has a Master's degree, approved by CAPES, in 2008, and a Doctorate degree, authorized in 2009.

Its Master's and Doctorate degrees seek to train professionals focused on understanding and acting in the Brazilian reality, aiming to contribute to the solution of the main health problems that affect the population, guiding decision making, both from the point of view of management and health care, as regards the training of workers in this field and teaching in higher education. The Program carries out its selection process for admission annually and obtained a grade 5 in the 2017 CAPES four-year evaluation.