Global Health MSc
Master
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
1 Year
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Start date
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The health and wellbeing of people differs widely across the globe. Life expectancy varies from 45 years in some countries to double that figure in others, and similar inequalities exist within countries.
Many complex factors and processes simultaneously operating from the local to the global spheres affect the health of individuals, populations and nations. As these factors change, so do the challenges and opportunities for improving health locally and globally. The global health programme at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Global Health Research develops students’ understanding of the complex determinants of health and their potential solutions in order to help them contribute to the improvement of health and the achievement of health equity and social justice worldwide. With this purpose, this programme offers an inter-multi and cross-disciplinary approach to health and ill-health.
The course brings together experts from the health sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, development studies, anthropology, business, economics and political sciences amongst others in order to deliver a stimulating and vibrant programme, covering topics such as poverty, inequality, cultural understandings of health and healing, emerging infectious diseases, global burden of diseases, climate change, health policy and governance, access to medicines, and the relationship between health inequality, globalisation and global governance.
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About this course
Graduates of this programme will have the skills to work as global health practitioners, policy makers, consultants or researchers within international health and development agencies.
Previous graduates have gone into a range of careers, including working for national and international NGOs and Public Health England (PHE). Others are working in national and international-level research organisations and universities, and some have continued for further postgraduate training at PhD level.
A first- or upper second-class undergraduate honours degree or equivalent in any Global Health-related subject (eg anthropology, development studies, sports, nursing, political sciences, psychology, pharmacy, etc) or the successful completion of at least three years’ basic medical science at a UK medical school (having gained at least 360 credits). Relevant experience is desirable but not essential. English Language (IELTS): A minimum score of 7, with no less than 6.5 in each section.
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Subjects
- Access
- Governance
- Global
- Healing
- Health
- Development
- Management
- Professional
- Global Politics
- Anthropology
Course programme
- Global Health Principles
- Global Burden & Management of Disease
- Research Practice in Global Contexts
- Dissertation (Research Project)
- Health and Development
- Global Politics of Disease
- Communicable Disease
- Access to Medicines
- Sexuality and Developmnet: Intimacies, Health & Rights in Global Perspective
- Anthropology of fertility, reproduction and health
- Cultural understandings of health and healing
- Conflict, violence & health
- Anthropological Perspectives on Mind, Madness and Mental Health
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Global Health MSc