Public Health MSc

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Overview

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MSc

Public Health MSc, home applicant, full time

  • Home Applicant
  • Full time, 1 year
  • Pound 10440 per year

MSc

Public Health MSc, home applicant, full time

  • Home Applicant
  • Full time, 1 year
  • Pound 10920 per year

Public Health MSc, home applicant, part time

  • Home Applicant
  • Part time, 2 years
  • Pound 1820 per 30 credit module

Public Health MSc, international applicant, full time

  • International Applicant
  • Full time, 1 year
  • Pound 17220 per year

What makes this course different

Enhance your leadership qualities

Take part in a module dedicated to leadership to prepare you for the working world. You’ll learn how to adopt the qualities of a leader and how to manage yourself in a leadership position.

Develop public speaking skills and build confidence

You’ll have many opportunities to do presentations in front of a live audience. This will prepare you to speak to a wide variety of stakeholders in your future public health career.

Benefit from our industry connections

Our academics can connect you with a wide range of industry leading organisations. You’ll have the opportunity to network with NHS trusts, clinical commissioning groups, NGOs and more.

Course modules

NOTE: Modules are subject to change. For those studying part time courses the modules may vary.

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What we're researching

Our internationally-renowned institutes, regularly carry out research across the UK and overseas. Our Reach Pregnancy programme works with Barts Health NHS Trust to improve access to antenatal care for pregnant women living in areas with high levels of poverty and high ethnic diversity.

Your future career

This unusual and carefully tailored course will help you progress your career - by developing your research skills and enhancing your managerial abilities. It will also encourage you to think broadly.
For example, while you are treating someone with an obvious ailment such as a broken arm, you might consider whether there are underlying mental health issues that brought about the injury.
This aligns with the growing emphasis in the healthcare sector on the integration of healthcare services to meet complex health needs.

Graduate employers

The MSc Public Health course offers you enhanced employability prospects within the public health sector. This may involve working as a public health specialist or as a practitioner within the directorates of public health in NHS Foundation Trusts or Clinical Commissioning Groups.

Job roles

Our graduates have returned to careers within NHS or other healthcare sectors with the skills required to take up new levels of responsibility. After completing this course you will be well placed to advance to senior roles, such as director of public health.

"We've got an NHS at the moment that's going through enormous changes," says Dr Matthew Almond, Field Leader in Health Studies.

"What people need is a workforce that understands the need to be resilient, that understands service design and transformation and understands there are processes involved in transforming a service like the NHS - and that until the process is mature, there are going to be problems."

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal.

Josephine Baardi Case Study
I volunteered with Well London as a student and the work I did was invaluable in helping me know what to do on my first internship in Nigeria. It gave me the knowledge and experience I needed."
Josephine Bardi

Public Health MSc

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated careers support, and further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. Our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting-edge technologies and facilities.

Career Zone

Our dedicated and award-winning team provide you with careers and employability resources, including:

  • Online jobs board for internships, placements, graduate opportunities, flexible part-time work.
  • Mentoring programmes for insight with industry experts 
  • 1-2-1 career coaching services 
  • Careers workshops and employer events 
  • Learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight

Mental Wealth programme

Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme which issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you’ve mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

Our Mental Wealth programme

We are careers first

Our teaching methods and geographical location put us right up top

  • Enterprise and entrepreneurship support 
  • We are ranked 6th for graduate start-ups 
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations 
  • Support in starting a new business, freelancing and self-employment 
  • London on our doorstep

How you'll learn

The modules offer strong underlying knowledge and skills development. This emphasis supports you to relate theory to practice in a classroom setting, in all module components, and in the dissertation.

We consider employability to be a crucial element in the knowledge gained and skills assessed in each module. The course will enable you to deal with complex issues within your workplace and display sound judgment, personal responsibility, and initiative.

You might be working with nurses, podiatrists, or speech therapists. They might be from the UK or elsewhere. The interdisciplinary nature of the course gives you the opportunity to work and learn with peers from different cultural and professional backgrounds.

Recently, UEL MSc students carried out a 'Small c' campaign, running a cancer awareness programme at a nearby shopping mall in Stratford. Such 'learning by doing' initiatives engage with local people and provide valuable work experience for students to include in their CVs.

You may also have the opportunity to work on one of our research programmes.

Guided independent study

When not attending timetabled lectures or workshops, you will be expected to continue learning independently through self-study. This will typically involve skills development through online study, reading journal articles and books, working on individual and group projects and preparing coursework assignments and presentations. Your independent learning is supported by a range of excellent facilities including online resources, and specialist facilities, such as game labs, the library, the full Microsoft Office software, including MS Teams, and Moodle: our Virtual Learning Environment.

Academic support

Our academic support team provides help in a range of areas - including learning and disability support.

Dedicated personal tutor

When you arrive, we'll introduce you to your personal tutor. This is the member of staff who will provide academic guidance, be a support throughout your time at UEL and who will show you how to make the best use of all the help and resources that we offer.

How you'll be assessed

We use a variety of assessment procedures, including unseen exams, essays and presentations as well as peer and self-assessment. Each taught module will be assessed and the various forms of assessment are outlined in the module guide. The assignments are also designed so that you can pursue your interests and specialist areas of practice.

Campus and facilities

Water Lane, Stratford