Course summary
The MSc Public Health will help you improve the lives of others by preventing and managing health problems. It's a career where can make a real difference to people’s health. You can help them to live longer, healthier, and more fulfilling lives.
Public health covers three key domains:
- Health improvement – monitoring specific diseases, risk factors, and inequalities
- Improving services – audit, evaluation, service planning, and efficiency
- Health protection – responses to infectious diseases and environmental hazards.
During the course, you'll analyse global and national policy and its practical implications. You'll also have the opportunity to study an area of healthcare in depth. Our staff work in public health, so everything you learn will be up to date with current practice. They'll support you with your final project, focusing on your personal interests.
Completing this course will give you the skills and knowledge you need to work at an advanced level. This is in line with current health legisliation 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.