Mres global health systems theory and policy blizard institute
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Description
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Postgraduate
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London
Overview
The MRES in Global Health Systems Theory and Policy is a pre-doctoral training programme designed to provide a critical, research led approach to the study of Global Heath systems, 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 Systems Theory and Policy at Queen Mary?
There are a number of distinct features about the course which include: an emphasis on the social determinants of health; a focus on the interface between politics and policy; a concern for social justice; and a stress upon primary care acting as a platform for effective public health action.
The course offers an opportunity to develop a pronounced multi-disciplinary analysis that includes sociology, anthropology, economics, law, geography as well as public health medicine. You will therefore learn from a truly multidisciplinary programme, which will give you a genuinely broad education and wide perspective..
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Subjects
- Social Science
- Systems
- Public
- School
- Law
- Global
- Perspective
- Economics
- Design
- Primary
- Credit
- Politics
- IT Law
- Public Health
Course programme
Structure
Students taking the MRES in Global Health Systems Theory and Policy 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 Global Health Unit in the Blizard Institute:
- Health Systems Policy and Practice (semester 1)
- Health Inequalities and Social Determinants of Health (semester 1)
- Health Systems Theory, Policy and Political Economy (semester 2)
One compulsory 60 credit dissertation module will be delivered the by the Global Health Unit in the Blizard Institute:
- Dissertation ICM7106
And one of the following 15 credit optional modules will be offered by the Global Health Unit in the Blizard Institute/School of Business Management in semester 2:
- Migration, culture and health
- Gender, Sexuality and Health
- Ecological Global 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
- Global Health, Governance and Law
Mres global health systems theory and policy blizard institute