Master

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This MSc provides rigorous training in demography and population studies. The curriculum comprises demographic methods and theory, epidemiology, statistics and data analysis.

Many of our societies continue to face a diverse set of demographic challenges and opportunities, including rapid population ageing, extremely low as well as very high fertility, and sizable population migration. These and other demographic trends have important repercussions in all possible domains of life; from voting behavior to living arrangements, labour markets and economic growth, tax revenues and pension systems, carbon emissions, and the demand for education, health and social services. Demography, in other words, may well be the single most defining factor of the world that we live in.

The MSc Demography & Health equips students with the theories and skills to understand and quantify macro-level population dynamics and their downstream implications for health and health policies. Students are further trained in the analysis of micro-level processes that govern population change, including fertility and reproductive behaviour, the exposure to health risks, and population mobility. Analysis tools and techniques are applied to high-income settings where high-quality data are usually abundant to resource constrained settings that are covered by partial or deficient information systems.

The teaching programme gives students ample opportunity to select from a wide range of modules in statistics, epidemiology public health, and the social sciences, and thus tailor their curriculum to either focus on the technical aspects of data analytics and demographic estimation, or, take a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of population and health.

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About this course

By the end of this programme students should be able to:

demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of scientific, evidence-based approaches to the study of population issues
assess and apply these approaches to inform development, health and population programmes
formulate research questions and use demographic and health data, and appropriate methods of analysis, to address them
identify causes and consequences of population change and relate these to underlying population dynamics
demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of demographic behaviour in social, economic and policy contexts
assess and apply findings of population studies to health and social policy
demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of major population trends, including historical trends, in developed and developing countries.

Graduates from this programme enter a diverse range of positions in public health, academic research of a very wide nature, NGOs, reproductive health programmes, health services, government statistical offices, policy and planning.

Below you will find just a few of the positions and organisations that our graduates from this course have entered:

Academic Researcher
Lecturer
Government Research or Policy Analyst
Research Scientist
Project Officer
International Technical Advisor
Market Research Consultant
Editor
Data Analyst
Epidemiologist
Evaluation Officer
Health Policy Adviser
Scientific Officer
Programme Officer
Senior Data Manager

The normal minimum entrance qualification for registration at the School on a Master's programme is at least one of the following:

a second-class honours degree of a UK university, or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard, in a subject appropriate to that of the course of study to be followed
a registrable qualification appropriate to the course of study to be followed, in medicine, dentistry or veterinary studies

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Subjects

  • Public Health
  • Data analysis
  • Statistics
  • Public
  • Project
  • Medical
  • Demography
  • Systems
  • Compulsory
  • Modules
  • Specifications
  • Outlines
  • Proposed

Course programme

Structure

The below structure outlines the proposed modules for this programme. Module specifications provide full details about the aims and objectives of each module, what you will study and how the module is assessed.

Term 1

Students take the following compulsory modules:
  • Basic Epidemiology or Extended Epidemiology
  • Demographic Methods
  • Population Studies
  • Principles of Social Research
  • Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health
Terms 2 and 3

Students take a total of five study modules, one module from each timetable slot (Slot 1, Slot 2 etc.). Students are expected to take modules related to demography for at least two of their other four choices.
*Recommended modules

Slot 1
  • Research Design & Analysis*
  • Designing Disease Control Programmes in Developing Countries
  • Health Care Evaluation
  • Sociological Approaches to Health
Slot 2
  • Family Planning Programmes*
  • Population, Poverty and Environment*
  • Conflict and Health
  • Design and Analysis of Epidemiological Studies
  • Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
Slot 3
  • Evaluation of Public Health Interventions*
  • Social Epidemiology*
  • Current Issues in Maternal & Perinatal Health
  • Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Diseases
  • Medical Anthropology and Public Health
  • Modelling & the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases
  • Spatial Epidemiology
Slot 4
  • Population Dynamics & Projections (compulsory)
Slot 5
  • Analysing Survey & Population Data*
  • Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
  • AIDS
  • Proposal Development
Project Report

During the summer months (July - August), students complete a research project for submission by early September. Acceptable types of project are: data analysis; a project proposal; an original literature or policy review.

Additional information

Overseas Fees - £24,200 (Full-time)
                        £12,100 (Part-time)

MSc Demography & Health

£ 10,470 VAT inc.