Public Health MPH

Course details

This course will provide inpiduals from a range of different professional backgrounds with academic and experiential development in the theory and practice of public health. It allows you to focus on a selection of sub-specialties of public health:

• Health promotion
• Health protection
• Epidemiology

Course Details

• In Part I, you will take core modules to the value of 30 credits.
• In Part II, you can choose one of the pathways and undertake modules to the value of 30 credits (Pathways 1, 2 and 3).

In Part III, you will undertake research and write a dissertation to the value of 30 credits (Pathways 1, 2 and 3).

You will take a total of 90 credits as below:

Part I

Core Modules - All Pathways (30 credits)

• EH6025 Principles and Practice of Public Health (10 credits) 
• EH6026 Applied Research for Public Health (10 credits) 
• EH6027 Public Health Informatics (5 credits) 
• EH6028 Leadership in Public Health (5 credits)

Part II (Pathway preferences will be chosen in consultation with the course director.)

Pathway 1: Health Promotion (30 credits): 

Student take 30 credits as follows:

• EH6029 Health Promotion: concepts, principles and practice (10 credits) 
• EH6045 Practice Portfolio - Health Promotion (5 credits)
• EH6039 Public Health and Behavioural Change (5 credits)
• EH6091 Graduate Information Literacy Skills (5 credits)

plus 5 credits from the following:

• EH6046 Global and Environmental Health (5 credits) 
• SS6017 Critical Social Science Perspectives on Public Health (5 credits)

Pathway 2: Health Protection (30 credits)

Students take 30 credits as follows:

• EH6019* The Principles and Practices of Multi-Disciplinary Health Protection (10 credits) 
• MB6000* Microbiology for Health Protection (5 credits) 
• EH6035* Practice Portfolio (5 credits) 
• EH6046* Global and Environmental Health (5 credits)
• EH6091 Graduate Information Literacy Skills (5 credits)

Pathway 2: Health Protection (online option)

Students take 30 credits as follows: 

• EH6048* The Principles and Practices of Multi-disciplinary Health Protection (online) (10 credits)
• EH6055* Global and Environmental Health (online) (5 credits)
• EH6058* Microbiology for Health Protection (online) (5 credits) 

10 credits from the following:

• EH6049* Global Health and Development (online) (5 credits)
• EH6056* Practice Portfolio (online) (5 credits)
• EH6057* The Big Four: HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) (online) (5 credits)
• EH6063* Tobacco Control: National and International Approaches (online) (5 credits)

Pathway 3: Epidemiology (30 credits)

Students take 30 credits as follows:

• EH6031 Advanced Epidemiology (10 credits) 
• ST6011 Advanced Biostatistics (5 credits) 
• ST6012 Survival Analysis (5 credits)
• EH6044 Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (5 credits)
• EH6091 Graduate Information Literacy Skills (5 credits)

Students must achieve an aggregate of 40% overall in Part II in order to proceed to Part III.

Part III

Pathways 1 and 2:

• EH6040 Minor dissertation in Public Health and Epidemiology (30 credits)

Pathway 3:

• EH6043 Minor dissertation in Epidemiology (30 credits)

Detailed Entry Requirements

 Prospective students must satisfy the following:

• students accepted on the course would normally be expected to hold an Honours primary degree in a relevant subject (minimum Second Class Honours) or an Honours primary degree in any discipline (minimum Second Class Honours) and either possess a postgraduate qualification in a relevant field or show evidence of at least two years work experience in a relevant field;
• include with application form a sample of their own written work;
• satisfy an interview board.

Applicants should indicate on their application form their reasons for wishing to enter this programme and will be required to discuss these at interview.