利物浦熱帶醫(yī)學(xué)院

Programme Outline

This programme equips graduates to provide leadership and technical support in public health in middle-income and low-income countries.

It covers a wide range of topics in public and global health, including key disciplinary skills in epidemiology and social science, and applied topics such as disease control and programme management. The programme has a specialist focus on current policies and practice in humanitarian assistance, and explores approaches to responding to the challenges of today’s humanitarian problems. It aims to provide students with the skills, knowledge, and understanding of humanitarian issues needed to practise at a senior level in organisations involved in the prevention of, and response to, humanitarian crises.

This course aims to:

• Provide a critical understanding of a range of health policies and strategies in a variety of social, epidemiological, cultural, economic and political settings in middle- and low- income countries
• Enable students to analyse critically, evaluate and conduct responsive, public health-related research and apply evidence to everyday practice.
• Produce graduates who are experienced, committed, informed, proactive and effective professionals, capable of taking substantial and leading professional roles in order to promote improved health and well-being in middle and low income countries
• Facilitate high quality learning that is informed by critical analysis of current research
• Develop independent and reflective approaches to study that will enable graduates to continue to learn in the future

Careers

There are many career opportunities within the field of Public Health throughout the world. Public Health, and in particular our response to humanitarian crises, has been highlighted by the recent war in Syria, the refugee camps and mass migration from the area, natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis worldwide, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, H5N1 Avian Influenza, Zika Virus, and MERS. People with public health skills and a knowledge of the humanitarian sector are highly sought after. Past alumni of this course typically gain employment in health ministries, health departments, national or international NGOs, UN Agencies, aid organisations, or universities. The international research project allows you to prove your ability in the sector by working with an NGO for your research in a mutually beneficial manner.

Students can also exit with PGDip or PGCert Awards.