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 ​This innovative summer school offers a unique interdisciplinary learning experience that explores wicked global public health challenges through the lens of health, wellbeing, and sport. Set in the School of Health and Wellbeing, will inspire transformative approaches to public health. Participants will engage in interactive lectures, hands-on workshops, guided by international experts in topics such as suicide prevention, public health, nutrition, mental health, and physical wellbeing. The program will emphasise real-world application, empowering participants to understand innovative, evidence-based interventions that promote health equity and sustainable wellbeing.

​​There will be 4 weeks of teaching.

​Each day there will be a 1.5hr interactive lecture (7.5 hrs/week). 

​Then there will be 3-hour workshop/seminar style interactive session (15 hrs/week)

Total contact time/ week = 22.5 hrs​ 

​​Summer School all applicants must have a GPA of 3.0 and IELTS level 6.0 with a score of no lower than a 5.5 in any subtest​ 

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​There are three forms of assessment:

Part 1: Group presentation, podcast or vlog (worth 25%) - submitted at the end of the course. Length determined by number of group members (no longer than 10min). Must cover a public health issue in the low and middle income and high income settings. Each group will be required to provide a contribution statement (using a template provided) outlining the ways in which group members contributed. This will be similar to the expectation set by academic journals - e.g. CRediT 

Part 2: Critical review of a complex public health problem and its potential solutions (50%) (1200w)

Part 3: A reflective piece - reflecting on their personal learning that has occurred across the course (800w) (25%).

Reassessment is normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. Where, exceptionally, reassessment on Honours courses is required to satisfy professional/accreditation requirements, only the overall course grade achieved at the first attempt will contribute to the Honours classification. For non-Honours courses, students are offered one reassessment opportunity in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some assessment components, in which case the grade achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below.

Groupwork is not reassessable.

​​This course aims to equip students with interdisciplinary knowledge and practical skills to address complex global public health challenges through innovative, evidence-based approaches, using the themes of health, wellbeing, and sport, leveraging the context of the Glasgow to inspire transformative solutions that promote health equity and sustainable wellbeing.​ 

​​By the end of this course, participants will be able to: 

1. ​Analyse complex global public health challenges through an interdisciplinary lens, integrating perspectives from health and wellbeing. 

1. ​Critically appraise the literature surrounding a complex global public health challenge. 

1. ​Evaluate evidence-based public health interventions, to improve health and wellbeing. 

1. ​Develop a clear, well-constructed oral presentation describing a complex public health problem and its potential solution.​ 

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment. In cases where the assessment comprises more than 75% of the course weighting (for example, 100% weighting dissertation), students must submit this assessment in order to meet the minimum requirement for the award of credit.