| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-01 | 2023-08-01 |
| 2024-09-01 | - |
| 2025-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
The MPH (Global Health) is a strand of the Master in Public Health programme and is aimed at professionals already working, or aiming to work, in healthcare settings in low-and middle-income countries.
We are offering over 400 awards of £2,000 to support the brightest and best applicants wishing to undertake Masters study at the University during 2023-24.
The deadline for applications is 23:59 (UK time) on 30 April 2023.
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The MPH (Global Health) is an exit qualification from our Master Public Health (MPH) programme. Applications for the MPH (Global Health) strand are made through the standard Master in Public Health programme.
This modular, multidisciplinary programme in public health offers a Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma or a Masters qualification. It is an exciting and engaging programme developed in response to demand from public health professionals around the world, and delivered by global academic and field experts in public health and health systems. The course builds upon our well-established and successful Master of Public Health through the addition of modules that contextualise and apply public health topics and skills in relation to low- and middle- income countries.
The course follows the same structure as the standard MPH but includes extra compulsory modules. As well as the three core MPH modules, you will study two additional core modules:
You will also carry out a dissertation based upon research conducted on low - and middle - income country health or health systems topics. These can be based in Birmingham, such as systematic reviews and data analysis of large datasets, or based upon original data collection in the field, such as in immigrant communities living in the UK or in a low - or middle - income country (either your own country or where a supervisor has links). Supervisors are experts in a range of internationally relevant public health topics with projects in numerous low - and middle - income countries. Field trip work may be covered by supervisor grants but in most cases must be paid for by you and/or your sponsor(s), as the tuition fees do not include travel and field work expenses.
The MPH (Global Health) programme can be studied either full-time, part-time or over a maximum of five years by flexible learning. International students may only study the MPH (Global Health) full-time. Teaching takes place in one-week blocks. The course covers many of the areas necessary for sitting the Part A examination of the Faculty of Public Health.
We also offer the following public health programmes: