Mres global health law and governance blizard institute
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Postgraduate
In London
Description
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Postgraduate
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London
Overview
The MRES in Global Health Law and Governance is a pre-doctoral training programme designed to provide a critical, research led approach to the study of Global Heath Governance, together with training in the key research skills appropriate for Doctoral level study. Alongside a suite of substantive modules offered in conjunction with the School's Global Health MScs, the programme includes core modules in research design, qualitative and quantitative methods taken jointly with social science students from a range of disciplines across QMUL, Kings College London and Imperial College as part of the training offered by the ESRC funded London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership.
Students who successfully complete the programme will be able to move on to a PhD and eventually work in health policy and other fields of public health and public policy with a global perspective and equipped to enhance capacity and work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams on behalf of local populations.
Why study the MRES in Global Health Law and Governance?
Global public health has become a subject of study across several disciplines, including biomedicine, political economy, sociology and anthropology, epidemiology and statistics, health services research, and policy studies. Law has also been amongst these, but has rarely been the focus of dedicated study in the context of global public health. Yet legal frameworks and instruments continue to evolve and to shape and influence both the content and delivery of standards and policy goals..
This programme analyses the key international organisations and legal instruments that influence national public health policies. It critically examines the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) and key international conventions and protocols on. David graduated from Southampton University medical school and worked as a clinician in the UK for two and a half years. He then spent ten...
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Subjects
- Social Science
- Medical training
- Medical
- Public
- School
- Law
- Global
- International
- Design
- Credit
- Governance
- IT Law
- Public Health
Course programme
Structure
Students taking the MRES in Global Health Law and Governance will sit modules totalling 120 credits, and complete a dissertation (60 credits).
Two compulsory 30 credit modules will be delivered by the School of Politics and International Relations:
- Introduction to Social Science Research 1: epistemology, research design, and qualitative methods (30 credits) NEW
- Introduction to Social Science Research 2: quantitative methods and data (30 credits) NEW
Three compulsory 15 credit modules will be offered by the Blizard Institute:
- Health Systems Policy and Practice (semester 1)
- Health Inequalities and Social Determinants of Health (semester 1)
- Global Health, Governance and Law (semester 2)
One compulsory 60 credit dissertation module will be delivered the by the Global Health Unit in the Blizard Institute:
- Dissertation ICM7119
One 15 credit module will be offered by the Global Health Unit in the Blizard Institute/School of Business Management in Semester 2, with students choosing from the following list:
- Migration, culture and health
- Health Systems Theory, Policy and Political Economy
- Gender, Sexuality and Health
- Ecological Global Health
- Human Rights and Public Health
- Anthropology of Global Health
- Primary Care and Global Public Health
- Globalisation and Contemporary Medical Ethics
- Global governance and international organisations
- Economics of developing countries
- Human resource management in the public services
Mres global health law and governance blizard institute