Public Health MPH

Public health is the science and art of keeping communities healthy. It involves preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting healthy lifestyles. This happens through health policy, education, and environmental interventions.

If you want to make a difference in the world, the field of public health is a good place to start. Communities on a local, national, and international scale all face health issues. There is a world-wide need for people who have the knowledge and skills to tackle these problems.

Our Public Health MPH gives you the skills you need in:

• public health techniques and strategies
• epidemiology (the study of how diseases spread and affect populations)
• statistics and data
• health promotion and education
• research methods.

You'll learn about the principles, philosophy, and strategies underpinning health promotion. This will be in the context of public health practice and research around the world.

This course is ideal if you're looking for promotion or a leadership role in your field. It also helps if you want to go on to do more research in public health. Either way it could help you influence health issues.

What you will learn

On this MPH course you'll learn how to design and carry out public health research. Being equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to tackle public health problems is hugely important. You'll learn how to apply your knowledge to healthcare delivery and improvement.

You'll learn about a range of topics, including:

• epidemiology, including mortality, morbidity, and disease distribution
• clinical statistics
• the history, development, and importance of public health in our societies
• health promotion techniques and strategies for dealing with complex public health issues
• research methods (design, systematic review, meta-analysis, report writing).

You have a choice of three optional modules. This means you can tailor your learning to suit your needs. They cover:

• applied epidemiology
• applied statistics for observational studies and clinical trials
• ethnography (studying cultures and communities) for public health research and improvement.

After completing the taught modules, you'll work on your dissertation. This helps you show your skills in analysis, integration, and critical thinking. Working on a public health topic, you can either use data to explore and draw conclusions or complete a narrative review.

The benefits of studying public health with us

Our Master of Public Health course has been running since the early 1980s. We have refined and polished the curriculum over a long time. Our course is popular, and we make sure you have the best learning experience through small class sizes.

We have a strong, diverse, and welcoming community of students and staff from around the world. This gives you great opportunities for networking. We also make sure we adapt the public health masters course to reflect what our students need.

We're embedded within a well-respected medical school inside a large NHS teaching hospital. We welcome NHS speakers throughout the course. This helps us target your learning to reflect current practice and thinking in the field. You are learning the latest developments in preparation for life after graduation.