Program Overview

Public Health Project Management

Key Facts

• Module Code: PUHM008
• Level: Postgraduate (PG)
• Duration: One semester, Part Time
• Starting: October, February
• UK Fees 24/25: £920 (per 20 credits)
• Location: Waterside

Overview

This Level 7, 20-credit course can be taken as a single module for continuing professional development or as part of our MSc Public Health course. You will develop comprehensive knowledge on how to identify and assess the health needs of a target population. You will also develop the skills needed to design, implement and evaluate a public health project intervention to build community capacity and empower the population to improve their health and wellbeing.

Highlights

• Use credits to build towards the MSc Public Health
• Opportunity to design a public health project on an identified health need in a community
• Pro-active approach to teaching and learning

Entry Requirements

• Applicants will normally hold a recognised First- or Second-class Honours degree in a subject area that demonstrates applicability to public health practice including:
  • Dentistry, pharmacy, biology, medicine, public health, nursing, environmental health, biomedical health/science, podiatry, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, microbiology, biochemistry.
  • Homeopathic Medicine (including degrees in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery).
  • Zoology and most medical/health background undergraduate degrees. This includes degrees such as BSc Profusion Technology and BSc Radiology.
• Other Entry Requirements
  • Applications listing degrees not shown above may be referred to the course tutor to assess suitability. We will need to see evidence of:
    • Degree transcripts with exact modules studied.
    • Evidence of experience in public health (if applicable).
    • References for suitability.

Course Content

• This module will be delivered by a range of teaching methods such as core lectures, group work, online activities, use of case studies and directed learning approaches. Shared learning with other professionals will be a focus of this course and you will be encouraged to develop a critical evaluative approach to the knowledge which underpins present-day public health practice.
• Teaching for this module is a blend of face to face and online sessions. Module assessment strategy will be to design a small-scale intervention for an identified health need for a target population along with a 40-minute oral presentation of the designed health needs intervention, while ensuring all module learning outcomes are met.
• The content of this module includes:
  • Development of public health from the 20th Century
  • International and national public health perspectives
  • Political influences on health
  • The role of multilateral and bilateral funding organisations
  • Agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations
  • Healthy public policy
  • Health inequalities
  • Health needs assessment
  • Project management skills
  • Community development and legal and ethical principles.

Fees and Funding

• 2024/25 Tuition Fees
  • Fees quoted relate to study in the Academic Year 24/25 only and may be subject to inflationary increases in future years.
  • Module costs: £920 per 20 credit module
• Please contact Karen Edwards for further information about fees for this module.
• For more information about possible funding options, please visit our Fees and Funding pages.

Staff

• Senior Lecturer in Public Health
  Faculty of Health, Education and Society
  • Puremeluan Major
• Lecturer in Public Health
  Faculty of Health, Education and Society
  • Victory Olorunnipa

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