The MSc in Applied Public Health is an innovative course which will strengthen your capacity to meet the varied and diverse demands of public health work and reduce health inequalities.
You’ll develop the skills required to meet existing and emerging challenges in public health. This includes leadership, communication, project management, resource management and evaluation and collaborative working.
Why study with us
- This postgraduate course covers a range of public health disciplines including health protection, healthy settings, epidemiology, media and communication, along with global, national and local issues relating to public health.
- There’s a strong emphasis on appropriate tools and techniques, evidence based approaches and the application of theory to public health practice.
- We use action learning to underpin the need to work in partnership and engage in reflective practice.
What you'll do
- You’ll examine local, national and international examples of public health initiatives, and assess their relationship with social circumstances and policy priorities.
- The learning outcomes of the core modules are mapped against the Royal Society for Public Health standards and the NHS Knowledge and Skills Competency Framework.
- Public health work experience opportunities are available as part of this course.
Module overview
Compulsory modules
• HI4034: Advanced needs assessment for Primary Care
• MW4042: Global Public Health Challenges
• MW4043: Public Health and Wellbeing: Strategies and Interventions
• NU4025: Introduction to Postgraduate Research
• PG4113: Risk Management in Health Protection
• PG4114: Healthy and Sustainable Settings: Theory, Policy and Practice
• PG4115: Applied Public Health Project
Optional modules
• H14002: Quantitative Methodology for Health Research
• H14003: Qualitative Methodology for Health Research
• MW4036: Organisational Leadership and Management
• MW4045: Social Prescribing
Course delivery
Following the pandemic, we have found that some courses benefit from a blended learning and teaching approach. Therefore, the majority of your teaching will be face-to-face on campus aside from a small amount of online teaching where we have learnt it works best.
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.
Future careers
With an MSc in Applied Public Health you can work as a Public Health Practitioner, and also advance your career by progressing towards registration as a Specialist Practitioner in Public Health.
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