Global Pharmacy PGDip
Postgraduate
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
1 Year
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Start date
Different dates available
The course develops students’ understanding of how pharmacy can impact global health. Students are provided with a foundation in the complex determinants of health and the global burden and management of disease.
The curriculum then focuses on the twin strands of pharmaceuticals and pharmacists, and their role in improving global health, with a particular emphasis on addressing health inequities. The course brings together experts from many disciplines to deliver a vibrant and stimulating programme.
The Global Pharmacy course is suitable for anyone interested in taking a multidisciplinary approach to how pharmacy and global health are related.
This course is particularly relevant for pharmacists, those working in the pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceutical policy makers, as well as others interested in how global health and pharmacy intersect.
The course comprises two terms of face-to-face teaching on the Falmer campus, followed by one term focusing on a research-based MSc dissertation.
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About this course
This course equips students to apply their specialist knowledge and skills to make a unique contribution to improving global health through pharmacy.
The course has a particular focus on overcoming health inequities: the avoidable differences in health globally. Graduates will have the skills to work as global pharmacy practitioners, policy makers, consultants or researchers, with international health and development agencies or in global health-related aspects of the pharmaceutical industry.
A first- or upper second-class undergraduate honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent.
English Language (IELTS): A minimum score of 7, with no less than 6.5 in each section
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Subjects
- Global
- Industry
- Management
- Research
- Global Contexts
- Medicines
- Pharmacy
- Global health
- Dissertation
- Professional
Course programme
- Global Health Principles
- Global Burden and Management of Disease
- Research Practice in Global Contexts
- Access to Medicines
- Pharmacy and Global Health
- Social determinants of health and ill health
- Global burden and management of disease
- Access to good quality medicines
- Affordability of medicines
- Supply chain management
- Rational use of medicines
- The role of the pharmaceutical industry in global health
- Pharmacy and global health
- Pharmacy and humanitarian responses
- Research practice in global contexts
Additional information
Global Pharmacy PGDip