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Study Details: MSc 1 year full-time
Gain a deeper understanding of the major public health threats faced by humanity. You’ll learn how to design, test and implement interventions to tackle them.
During this specialist master's course, you’ll study urgent and important public health challenges facing societies across the globe. By focusing on the root causes of disease, ill health and injury, you’ll explore how impactful policy can improve lives at community and population level.
You’ll develop your understanding of how geopolitical, social and natural factors may combine to result in situations that cause short and long-term threats to people’s health and wellbeing. These may include global climate change; war and conflict; health inequities; poverty, lifestyle, and access to amenities and services.
Address the big public health challenges
Once you've gained the core knowledge needed, you'll critically assess the intersection of policymaking and epidemiology. You’ll evaluate how major policies can counteract the effects of key public health challenges, and how to improve and adapt policies and interventions to mitigate future risks. You’ll do this in the context of real-world case studies across topics like:
Upon successful completion of this course, you’ll have developed the required knowledge and skills to develop, critique and adapt evidence-based public health policy to suit different contexts, countries and regions of the world. You will also have acquired the practical, analytical and evaluative skills to enable you to take up careers in a wide range of public health settings.
This course is informed by the UK Faculty of Public Health Diplomate Examination (DFPH), so it will help to prepare you for these exams.
You should have a bachelor's honours degree or international equivalent, typically a 2:1 or above.
To apply for this course, you should have an undergraduate degree in an appropriate subject such as health psychology, health and exercise science, health sciences, social policy, social science, medicine or sport and exercise science. We will also consider graduates with an undergraduate degree in other subjects where you have substantial relevant professional experience.
We may make an offer based on a lower grade if you can provide evidence of your suitability for the degree.
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With a strong grounding in public health and health policy, as well as practical research skills, you'll be well equipped to respond to public health challenges in a range of sectors and contexts.
You could go on to work as an epidemiologist, health scientist, public health advisor or practitioner, field consultant, global health educator, policy analyst, environmental health practitioner or NGO aid worker; or advance to doctoral study in a number of areas related to health and policy.
Previous students have gone on to pursue further training in medicine and secured roles within the NHS.
Year 1
Semester 1
Depending on your choice of unit, you’ll be allocated your dissertation or consultancy project and supervisor.
Compulsory units
Semester 2
You'll work on your dissertation or consultancy project ethics application.
Compulsory units
Optional units
Summer
You’ll conduct your dissertation or consultancy project.
Optional units
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