Course summary
Improve the lives of others by preventing and managing health problems. Make a real difference to people’s health and help them to live longer, healthier, and more fulfilling lives.
Public health covers three key domains:
- Health improvement, which includes monitoring specific diseases, risk factors, and inequalities
- Improving services, which includes audit, evaluation, service planning, and efficiency
- Health protection, which includes responses to infectious diseases and environmental hazards.
The MSc Public Health course mixes taught elements with independent projects. You'll analyse the global and national policy, and its practical implications, and have the opportunity to study an area of healthcare in depth. You'll learn up to date knowledge and practice from your lecturers who continue to work in the field of public health. They'll support you as you negotiate a final project that matches your personal interests.
Upon completion of the course, you'll have the skills and knowledge to work at an advanced level in line with current health legislation and policy. Public health professionals work in a range of community health areas such as:
- Primary healthcare teams
- Public health units
- Drug and alcohol settings
- Health and social care settings.
There are also opportunities in:
- Epidemiology
- Biostatistics
- Environmental health
- Health administration
- Health education
- Health policy.