Global Health

The Masters in Global Health offers you a unique opportunity to develop a critical understanding of the key issues within health and medicine, health policy and health planning, and of the determinants of health and health inequalities from a social science perspective.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

- The MSc and MRes are both designed to allow you to focus your learning around the global health issues that interest you most, and are fully interdisciplinary in their structure and content.

- You will examine health issues that arise for different population groups and across national boundaries, including the social and cultural constructions of health, chronic illness and disability, and global and national health policies.

- You will make a critical analysis of health and its determinants, and develop a deep understanding of the influence and role of equality/inequality, demographics and location on health.

- You will study social science research methods, and apply them in the completion of an original piece of research.

- You will be taught by experts from the following world-leading centres based at the University: School of Health & Wellbeing, MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research, Centre for the History of Medicine, and Policy Scotland.

- You will become part of a leading centre of applied and policy related research bringing together expertise in health inequalities, health and wellbeing, disability, urban health, health economics and the history of medicine.

- Participate in networking activities, for example, inviting international Global Health professionals to attend a Careers in Global Health event, and a week-long fact-finding trip to Geneva (or other European centre for Global Health organisations).

- Closely supported to build the skills, experience and networks that will open doors to you in your future career in Global Health.

- Sociology at Glasgow is ranked 4th in the UK by the Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025 and 4th in the UK by the Complete University Guide 2025.

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

In the MSc, you will take three core and three optional courses. In the MRes, you will take four core courses and two optional courses. In both programmes, courses will be delivered via lectures and seminars. You will also undertake an independent research project focusing on an issue in Global Health that particularly interests you, and will submit this as a dissertation at the end of your degree.

MSc core courses
Global Health in Social Context
Improving Health and Society: Programme Development and Evaluation
PGT Research Design in Practice

MRes core courses
Global Health in Social Context
Research Design
Qualitative Research Methods
Quantitative Data Analysis

Optional courses
Anthropology of Global Health
Communicable Diseases
Cultural, Social and Biological Determinants of Mental Health
Planetary Health
Globalisation And Public Health
Global Health Challenges
Health and Culture
Health Economics for HTA online
Health Technology Assessment in a global context
Improving Access to Mental Health Care in the Global Context
Managing Health Care Organisations
Mental Health and Disability: International Law and Policy
Mental Health Promotion Across the Life-span
Research Design
Quantitative Data Analysis (MSc only)
Understanding Health Policy