MPH (Master of Public Health)

Programme description

The Glasgow MPH reflects the multi-disciplinary nature of public health and provides students with a range of courses to develop knowledge and skills around the theory and practice of public health.

Teaching is provided by academics and practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines including; Health Protection Scotland, Environmental Health, and Public Health Medicine and Business/Management.

In order to obtain the award of a Master of Public Health, a student must accumulate 180 credits at Master level. 140 of these credits are gained by successful completion of taught courses, with an additional 40 credits gained through successful completion of a research project

Students will be required to pass the following compulsory courses:

Principles of Public Health (20 credits)
Introduction to Statistical Methods (20 credits)
Introduction to  Epidemiology (20 credits)
Research Methods (20 credits)
Project (40 credits)

The project will be of between 15,000 and 20,000 words in length. The submission date is usually around the second week in August.

In addition another three courses must be drawn from the optional course list which is as follows:

• Communicable Diseases (20 credits)
• Economic Evaluation (20 credits)
• Environmental Health (20 credits)
• Further Epidemiology and Statistics (20 credits)
• Globalisation and Public Health (20 credits)
• Health Economics (20 credits)
• Health Promotion: Principles and Practice (20 credits)
• Managing Health Care Organisations (20 credits)
• Oral Health (20 credits) (this course is only offered every two years)
• Psychosocial Approaches to Public Health (20 credits)
• Qualitative Research Methods (20 credits)

Students are also able to take courses that are provided as part of the Masters in Primary Care (General Practice and Primary Care, University of Glasgow).

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