What will I learn?
This programme will develop your interest, knowledge and understanding of the three domains of public health: health improvement, health protection and healthcare services. Your learning will be informed by the highest quality research and be focused on, and reflective of, the public health challenges in the UK and internationally. You will experience and contribute to a wide range of face to face and lectures, workshops and guest talks as well as asynchronous lectures and activities. The programme will provide you with a firm theoretical grounding in the principles and practice across the topic areas of public health, health improvement, epidemiology and statistics, research methods and evaluation, health protection, health economics, ethics, and healthcare services. You will develop essential knowledge, understanding and critical awareness of the current approaches to public health practice and research. This course will help you will develop your perceptive, critical, and reflective skills. We encourage you to be curious about the discipline, develop your ability to frame questions, work effectively with others and listen and to contribute to informed discussions. By completing tasks and assessments you will develop a range of skills directly relevant to working in the real world of public health, including undertaking statistical analysis, writing protocols, short reports, blog posts and short answer questions. For your dissertation you will undertake a research project, chosen by you, and write this as a journal article, which you may then choose to publish as a peer-reviewed publication. You will graduate with an expansive set of skills that will have directly prepared you for careers in public health or a further higher degree in this field.
Which department am I in?
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Entry requirements
For international students
You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent in Anthropology, Biology, Biomedical Science, Dentistry, Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Geography, Global Health, Health Economics, Health or Social Policy, Health Services Management, Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, other Allied Health professionals, Pharmacology, Physiology, Physiotherapy, Psychology, Sociology, Statistics, and Veterinary Science. This programme is also open to those successfully appointed to the Public Health training scheme in the UK; evidence to support your appointment should be included in your application.You will also need a quantitative unit/module at a minimum of 55% or an international equivalent such as Epidemiology or Statistics. Or A-Level Mathematics Grade C or above. Or AS-level Mathematics grade B or above. Or GCSE Mathematics Grade B or above.If you are currently completing a degree, we understand that your final grade may be higher than the interim grades or module/unit grades you have achieved during your studies to date.We will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer. This offer would be at the standard level, so you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree. Specific module requirements would still apply.We will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirement.
