Digital Health - BSc (Hons)

This exciting degree in Digital Health prepares students to be a part of the expanding Digital Health sector. It involves learning about technology - including hardware, databases, information management and systems architecture - specifically from the perspective of healthcare. For example, in addition to learning about how technology can be used to improve health, you will learn about what causes disease, and how health and disease are defined and measured.

This will promote creativity in considering the variables that might be measured for the purpose of helping understand and improve health and wellbeing, to influence health behaviours, treatments, and outcomes. A unique feature of the Digital Health degree is the inclusion of modules on user centred design, delivered by which will ensure that you are able to design intuitive and appealing interfaces that people can easily engage with and will want to use.

The course will also involve industrial engagement and placements, with an emphasis on tackling real-life issues, to foster the development of active problem solvers, capable of developing technical solutions to clinical and health related challenges. This will provide graduates with the skills, knowledge and experience to help deliver what digital health promises.

Career

This integrated Master's degree in Digital Health prepares graduates for a range of careers in health and care across various settings where health improvement enhanced by technology, and project management in such areas, is sought. This includes the NHS and Public Health organisations, private sector organisations who develop digital technologies for use in promoting health, and 3rd sector organisations that include charities, community groups and social enterprises. The programme will also lead on to opportunities for further study, both in terms of research (PhD) and management and leadership (e.g. MBA).