MSc Public Health
The MSc Public Health creates professionals who can lead and implement change in public health across the world stage.
It was designed in consultation with Public Health Wales and supports the development of public health practitioners by enabling them to negotiate, plan, implement, and evaluate policy and practice initiatives.
The Public Health Masters recognizes that health challenges can be more global than a single country’s population but that local policy and regulation responses will vary from country to country.
Modules include relevant theoretical and ethical concepts to encourage students to reflect critically on questions and decisions that arise in the field of public health.
At the end of the course, students will develop as responsive professionals who can negotiate, plan, implement, and evaluate public health policy and practice.
What will You Study?
The Public Health course is structured through the academic year, and students can start the course in either September or February. Each 20 credit module has seven weeks of teaching which runs 10.00-3.00, with an assessment to complete after the teaching has concluded. You will need to study nine modules (180 credits) to achieve the MSc Public Health.
Between September to February students will complete Leading Change, Protecting Health in Diverse Environments, Governance and Economics, and Integrating Public Health Practice. Between February and August students will complete Sustainable Public Health, Evidence-Based Public Health, Public Health Project, Health Promotion, and one optional module (International Family Health or Epidemiology and Biostatistics).
As a full-time student you will be on campus for two days a week apart from when you are studying your optional module, which is three days a week. Part-time students will be on campus one day a week. Students also have the opportunity to utilize practical health promotion skills with on-campus health promotion activities around a number of health awareness days e.g. Worlds HIV Day. Students staff health promotion stands, develop materials and programs for dissemination to USW students on other campuses.
You will study the following modules:
- Sustainable Public Health
- Health Promotion
- Evidence-Based Public Health
- Protecting Health in Diverse Environments
- Integrating Public Health Practice (a skills-based module)
- Leading Change
- Governance and Economics for Public Health
- Public Health Project
You will also choose one optional module from the following: Epidemiology and Biostatistics for Public Health or International Family Health.
Careers
This Public Health course opens up a variety of employment opportunities in the UK and internationally, and across the public and voluntary sectors, e.g, in schools, colleges and universities, advocacy organizations, international non-government organizations, consulting firms, local and national government organizations, health delivery organizations and community development organizations.
There is also the opportunity to work in global organizations such as the World Health Organisation.
Please note, the MSc Public Health does not lead to registration on any professional register but can contribute towards preparation for Part A of the Faculty of Public Health examinations.
Graduates can also progress to a Ph.D. or research degree.
Entry Requirements
As Public health is a multidisciplinary course, we accept a wide range of undergraduate degrees onto our MSc Public Health with a minimum entry criteria of a 2.2. In addition, applicants require a minimum of one year relevant work experience. In your personal statement we therefore expect you to show a strong interest in Public Health, and to describe any relevant work experience you have in the health field. This might include current or past employment, voluntary work experience, undergraduate research projects or internships.
International applicants whose first language is not English require a minimum IELTS score of 6.5 overall, 6.5 in Writing and 5.5 in each other component.
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