Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year full-time
Explore the intersections of international development and healthcare policy and practice in the Global South, while developing the skills to work in health and development organisations around the world.
This course combines expertise from development studies and public health to help you engage with the challenges of health and international development in today’s complex world. Working across the Department of Geography and the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), you’ll develop an understanding of the interventions necessary to improve the health of communities in the Global South.
You’ll develop a critical understanding of international development theories and debates in the context of public health research and practice. There’s an emphasis on applying your learning to complex challenges in the real world. You’ll develop professional skills, carry out hands-on research during a field class, and you’ll complete a work placement-based dissertation that links academic theory with public health and international development practice.
Our teaching involves industry and sector specialists, which means you can make connections and contacts with a global network of expertise beyond the University. On this course you’ll develop the practical skills you need to work within development and health organisations around the world.
You’ll need a 2:1 or first-class honours degree in an area of the social sciences or medicine.
For fees please see our website.
We have a number of funding options including scholarships. Please visit https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/funding
Our public health masters graduates go on to work in very diverse areas, although many find work in a health or public health setting, including returning to medicine if they are medics or intercalating students. Other graduates have gone on to undertake further doctoral/PhD study or to work in research or academic settings, which we feel reflects the quality of our research-led teaching in preparing and inspiring students.
Students have also found excellent opportunities at the World Health Organisation (WHO), the World Bank Group and various international organisations and government agencies including:
Core modules:
Ideas and Practice in International Development
Introduction to Research Methods
Key Issues in Global Public Health
Professional Skills for Development
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