Public Health

- Epidemiology - Data Science - Health Promotion - Health Economics

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

You will attend interactive lectures, seminars and individual tutorials and take part in project and team work.

The Master of Public Health degree may be obtained without specialism, but several specialisms are available through course and dissertation topic selection. With or without specialism, students will complete 180 credits for the successful award of the MPH degree.

Those interested in a specialism should apply for the general MPH programme and a specialism can be chosen during the induction week. See links below for detailed information on which courses students take to follow the different specialisms.

Core Courses INTRODUCTION TO EPIDEMIOLOGY INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL METHODS PRINCIPLES OF PUBLIC HEALTH MPH RESEARCH PROJECT

Optional Courses (three courses chosen) ADVANCED EPIDEMIOLOGY COMMUNICABLE DISEASES ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTH FURTHER EPIDEMIOLOGY AND STATISTICS GLOBALISATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH HEALTH ECONOMICS FOR HTA ONLINE HEALTH PROMOTION: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE ORAL HEALTH (this course is offered every second year, last offered 2019-20) QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS RESEARCH METHODS MANAGING HEALTH CARE ORGANISATIONS DATA SCIENCE - IDENTIFYING, COMBINING AND ANALYSING HEALTH DATA SETS SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

If you are studying for the MPH, you will also undertake a research project of 15,000–20,000 words and your project studies here will incorporate a series of research methods lectures.

MPH with a specialism

The following MPH with a specialism degrees are available: Public Health: Health Promotion Public Health: Data Science Public Health: Health Economics Public Health: Epidemiology

For the MPH degree with a specialism, all students will take four core courses, and focus optional course selection and dissertation topics on relevant specialisms. There is also the option to take a PgDip Public Health with Specialism or a PgCert in Public Health.