Program Overview

International Public Health University Certificate in Postgraduate Professional Development

Overview

This course enables students to examine the key public health principles and factors that contribute to an international public health discipline, as well as develop a good understanding of the public health spectrum.

Course Details

What You Study

• Globalisation and the impact on international public health policy
• Communication in public health
• Principles of global health
• Cultures and society
• Health protection
• Disaster management, preparedness and planning
• Global burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases
• Environmental health
• Health economics and health informatics

How You Learn

This module is taught over a 14-week semester, with weekly sessions for taught materials (lectures) and in-class exercises for attendance and flexible students. Distance learners experience the same level of teaching through the use of online mediums and technologies to promote engagement, learning, and student experience.

• Attendance Learning Strategy: Learning and teaching strategies for attendance include mainly seminars, IT practicals, guided independent study, tutorial support, and supervision.
• Distance Learning Strategy: The VLE is used as a repository for learning materials and to provide a forum for discussion and debate. Pre-reading, guided independent study, and distance-learning materials are made available through the VLE.
• Flexible Learning Strategy: Flexible learning includes a mix of both attendance and distance learning, and the flexible learning strategy therefore includes aspects of the above two learning strategy sections.

How You Are Assessed

• Component 1 (40%): The first part requires students to write a 1500-word case study based on a mock simulated event (40% of final mark).
• Component 2 (60%): Students submit a global health essay of 2500 words, choosing from a selection of topics to critically explore from a global perspective.

Entry Requirements

• A UK Honours degree (2:2 and above) or equivalent in a relevant subject.

Employability

• Students who complete this course may progress onto the MPH or the DrPH.

Part-time Entry

• Fee for Applicants: £855
• Length: 14 weeks
• Start Date: September
• Level: Master's
• Credits: 20

Service User and Carer Involvement

• Service users and carers support all aspects of students' lifecycle from recruitment to graduation.