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MPH - Master of Public Health
University of West London - (UWL)
Full Time
Sep 2027
1 Year
This Master of Public Health MPH course aims to give you the knowledge to help you understand the impact that financial, social and environmental circumstances have on the health of people. We welcome students from a variety of vocational and professional backgrounds, and you will study in a supportive, enjoyable learning environment. This MPH degree will help you develop your skills in critical analysis and synthesis, information and evidence retrieval, ability to read and absorb information from a wide range of sources, leadership and creativity to tackle public health challenges at global and local levels. It focuses on key public health disciplines from healthy public policy, epidemiology, research methods and methodologies and global public health. There is a particular focus on the health of individuals, families and communities. This focus is given an effective foundation by a team of lecturers who have experience of working in the UK and international public health. Study options As well as the full-time and part-time options, this course can be studied with: Pre-Masters: If you have an undergraduate degree but do not meet the entry criteria or English language requirements for this course, you may qualify for our Extended Masters or Enhanced Extended Masters courses.
This module enables you to appreciate how epidemiology contributes to the identification of public health issues at a population level locally, nationally and globally. It complements the Research Methods for Public Health module by giving you the opportunity to gain an understanding of how to locate and use health data sources, and the relative strengths and weaknesses of the different epidemiological study designs. You will develop skills for critically appraising published research and interpreting basic epidemiologic and demographic, descriptive and inferential data and statistical approaches to analysing health outcomes.
This module introduces key challenges facing global public health systems and practitioners. It prepares you to critique and understand public health concepts in the context of complex socio-political developments globally. It emphasises the importance of developing a critical analysis to understand how globalisation process and its drivers influence public health systems? ability to mitigate the emergence and spread of risk factors and diseases that impact population health. You will be able to critically analyse global health systems, and how alliances and partnerships come together to develop and manage strong public health systems.
The aim of this module is to develop your skills in designing, implementing and evaluating health policy interventions. The module will help you to become a critical thinker who is able to analyse the effectiveness of the health policy process including translation of evidence-informed policy into practice.
Knowledge and skills in leadership and management are a core requirements for improving population health. This module focuses on helping you to understand the theory and practice of effective leadership and management of public health services, programmes and projects. It examines and unpicks concepts and issues in leadership and management practices and strategies used within public health systems to improve service delivery, and implement change that achieves sustainable service quality in the context of addressing population health needs. The module uses real-life scenarios and recorded narrations by practitioners to analyse classic leadership themes and interpret the characteristics of effective leaders; helping students as future leaders and managers to identify and adopt different leadership approaches for handling the challenges facing public health professionals in influencing societies and populations for health improvement. The module will challenge you to think of innovative ideas to adopt when leading within complex and dynamic public health settings.
The module aims to provide you with the opportunity to independently develop a business case for a public health improvement initiative through secondary research. You will have the opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills acquired from the different course modules to develop a business case for improving the effectiveness, efficiency, or quality of specific public health, healthcare or social care project, programme, or service. The dissertation prepares you for translating research-informed recommendations into feasible public health actions that contribute to improving the health of an affected group or population at the local or national levels.
This module introduces the historical and conceptual foundations of public health systems and policy. You will review different health systems and public health models to understand their functions, grounding theories, and concepts about: service delivery health workforce health information systems access to essential medicines financing leadership collective actions of society to enhance population health. The module uses local, national, and global perspectives to consider the political dimensions of public health and the strategic use of resources such as housing, economic globalisation and income distribution, and community empowerment on influencing lifestyle choices and improving population health.
This module aims to develop your knowledge, skills, and ability to undertake research. You will develop key competencies for initiating (and independently carrying out) high quality evidence-based research that generates solutions to problems that impact population health. You will be introduced to research philosophies, paradigms and ethics and a range of methodological elements and techniques for carrying out primary research including the implemention of quantitative and qualitative research. This module complements all other MPH modules.
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