Population Health MSc/PG Cert

Students will learn how to define and measure health, understand the role of socioeconomic and behavioural determinants of health, appreciate how health systems and public policy impact on health, and learn how to evaluate interventions to improve population health.

Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.

The programme consists of four core modules (60 credits), four optional modules (60 credits) and a dissertation/report (60 credits).

A Postgraduate Diploma (120 credits), full-time nine months, flexible study 2-5 years, is offered. Students take four core modules (60 credits) and four optional modules (60 credits).

A Postgraduate Certificate (60 credits), full-time nine months, flexible study two years, is offered. Students take three core modules (45 credits) and one optional module (15 credits).

• Core Concepts in Population Health
• Epidemiology
• Health Systems in a Global Context
• Basic Statistics for Medical Science

Students can choose up to four of the following:

• Advanced Statistical Modelling
• Behavioural Science and Cancer
• Climate Change and Health
• Clinical Aspects of HIV
• Ethnicity, Migration and Health
• Evaluating Interventions
• Health Inequalities over the Lifecourse
• Homeless and Inclusion Health
• Immunisation and Communicable Diseases
• Key Principles of Health Economics
• Law and Governance of Global Health
• Research in Action: Qualitative Approach
• Quality Improvement in Health Care
• Regression Modelling
• Reproductive Health
• Research Methods in Social Epidemiology
• Sexual Health Designing Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes in Low and Middle Income Countries
• Social Determinants of Global Health
• Urban Health

A full list of modules available can be found at the programme webpage Population Health MSc

Other open UCL MSc modules can also be chosen.

All students undertake an independent research project which culminates in a dissertation of 7,500 words. An oral presentation and a lay summary of 500 words are also required. The dissertation can include primary research, secondary data analysis, a literature/historical review or a project proposal in a field related to population health.

The programme is delivered through a combination of lectures and tutorials. Assessment is through a variety of methods, including essays, unseen examinations, project proposals and oral presentations. Students will also produce a research dissertation of 7,500 words, alongside an oral presentation and a lay summary of 500 words.