Public Health - MSc
Postgraduate
In Birmingham
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Birmingham
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Duration
1 Year
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Start date
September
By developing an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of health issues and public health practice, you will be able to integrate thinking and practice across many disciplines in order to work to improve or protect the populations’ health and to reduce health inequalities. Public health knowledge, skills and approaches encourage teamwork, multi-agency collaboration and community partnerships as being fundamental to the provision of effective and efficient public health interventions and leadership. These skills are increasingly relevant for the public health workforce who may be located within a variety of settings including the local authority, the NHS, the voluntary or the private sector.
The programme aims to enable you to become a leader and change agent, developing the knowledge and skills needed to work within this new multi-disciplinary public health landscape and to inform and influence decision making processes. The programme modules provide you the tools to expand your comprehension of the evidence base in public health in order to critically evaluate interventions and strategies to improve public health outcomes.
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About this course
On this academic programme you will engage with a teaching team with a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and extensive experience of working in public health practice across a wide variety of settings at a local, national and international level. These areas incorporate community development: research and policy; health psychology; epidemiology; sociology of health; health policy; health economics and leadership. This multi-disciplinary team will support you to develop advanced knowledge and academic skills in understanding, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes addressing existing and new public health challenges.
The course will enhance your career prospects, enabling you to progress onto more senior public health roles at either operational, policy or commissioning level. The transferrable nature of the course also means you could move into a management or research post.
An honours degree (2:2 or above) in a subject associated with or of relevance to public health
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Subjects
- Public Health
- Leadership
- Public
- Social care
- Health
- Epidemiology
- Community Development
- Social Context
- Cooperative process
- Interdisciplinary learning
Course programme
Year one students attend university all day Friday, whilst year two students attend on Wednesdays.
You will receive detailed timetables during your induction in term one.
At the end of year one, Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health will be awarded to students registered for this award.
- Public Health Foundations: Models, Approaches and Practice (term one) 20 credits
- Global Context of Public health (term one) 10 credits
- Public health in a social context: People, places and policy (term two) 20 credits
- Leadership for health and social care (term two) 20 credits
Year two
- Public Health from Health Protection to Community Development (term three) 20 credits
- Research Methods and Evaluation for Public Health (term three) 20 credits
- Epidemiology (term four) 10 credits
- MSc Research Dissertation (term four) 60 credits
Public Health - MSc