Masters
The MSc Global Public Health is a 2-year course that you can study completely online.

During that time you will undertake eight taught modules and a dissertation. For each module you will be awarded 15 credits and you will receive a further 60 credits for your dissertation. To graduate you must have accrued the full 180 credits, which involves completing every aspect of the modules and passing all relevant assignments.

Each module contains 6 weeks of academic content, followed by a reading week. Each module block has 2 assessments. Besides the reading weeks you'll have breaks every 2 modules of varying durations. The 6 week modules offer a wide variety of different subjects, enabling you to cover a broad range of interesting areas in sizeable portions.

It has been great to have a two-year education plan with a set schedule when so much else is changing. Because I know the module schedule in advance, I have been able to coordinate any project deadlines that I have for work.
Tina Lines, International Development Consultant, Global Public Health MSc
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Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip)
16 months
8 taught modules, 15 credits each
To graduate you must have accrued 120 credits
Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert)
8 months
4 taught modules, 15 credits each.
To graduate you must have accrued 60 credits
"Apply the learning to the world that you’re in, because then it comes to life. Apply it to what you’re doing, or what you’d like to do. And then it gives it more meaning, you become a bit more passionate. It’s not some flat, one-dimensional piece of work. This is your course, and you have to make this your own, enjoyable journey."
Melanie Poyser, GPH student

Module details
This postgraduate programme is designed to give you a comprehensive understanding of how addressing the social determinants for health improvements and inequalities plays an essential role in the work of public health specialists.

The modules below will not only provide you with valuable knowledge of the social, political, economic, and ecological determinants of health, but the skills needed to conduct health policy analysis as well.

Through this, you’ll benefit from a multidisciplinary perspective when navigating global public health questions and proposing new ideas in public health settings.

Health Inequalities and the State of Global Health – an introduction to the broad topic of global health
Understanding Epidemiology and Statistics – develop skills in critical appraisal, interpreting the results of commonly used statistical techniques and routine morbidity and mortality measures
Health Systems Policy and Performance – an introduction to various conceptual and theoretical understandings of ‘health systems’ within a social, economic, historical and global context
Critical Health Economics – an introduction to core theories and concepts of economics and their applications in health policy
Global Health Policy and Governance – an introduction to the disciplines of international relations, politics, jurisprudence, globalisation, and global governance as they relate to global health
Planetary Health – an introduction to various analytical perspectives on environmental change on a local, regional, and global basis and how these relate to human health and planetary health
Disease Management: Policy and Practice – build links between an appreciation of the clinical features of diseases and their implications for the design of programmes and plans
Research, Evidence and Policy – an introduction to the philosophy of science and debates about the nature of data and evidence from a public policy and practical/applied public health perspective
Dissertation - an advanced, in depth examination of a particular area of global public health. Your chosen topic should relate to a relevant issue within the academic field.