The MSc Public Health creates professionals who can lead and implement change in public health across the world stage.
It was designed in consultation with Public Health Wales and supports the development of public health practitioners through enabling them to negotiate, plan, implement and evaluate policy and practice initiatives.
The Public Health Masters recognises that health challenges can be more global than a single country’s population but that local policy and regulation responses will vary from country to country.
Modules include relevant theoretical and ethical concepts to encourage students to reflect critically on questions and decisions that arise in the field of public health.
At the end of the course, students will develop as responsive professionals who can negotiate, plan, implement and evaluate public health policy and practice.
What you will study
The Public Health course is structured through the academic year, and students can start the course in either September or February. Each 20 credit module has seven weeks of teaching which runs 10.00-3.00, with assessment to complete after the teaching has concluded. You will need to study nine modules (180 credits) to achieve the MSc Public Health.
Between September to February students will complete Leading Change, Protecting Health in Diverse Environments, Governance and Economics and Integrating Public Health Practice. Between February and August students will complete Sustainable Public Health, Evidence Based Public Health, Public Health Project, Health Promotion and one optional module (International Family Health or Epidemiology and Biostatistics).
As a full time student you will be on campus for two days a week apart from when you are studying your optional module, which is three days a week. Part time students will be on campus one day a week. Students also have the opportunity to utilise practical health promotion skills with on campus health promotion activities around a number of health awareness days e.g. Worlds HIV Day. Students staff health promotion stands, develop materials and programmes for dissemination to USW students on other campuses.
You will study the following modules:
- Sustainable Public Health
- Health Promotion
- Evidence Based Public Health
- Protecting Health in Diverse Environments
- Integrating Public Health Practice (a skills based module)
- Leading Change
- Governance and Economics for Public Health
- Public Health Project
You will also choose one optional module from the following: Epidemiology and Biostatistics for Public Health or International Family Health.
Teaching
The teaching and learning methods we use are designed to support motivation, interactivity and development of future graduates in public health practice.
The MSc Public Health course will be delivered using a blended learning approach predominately using interactive lectures that integrate a wide variety of learning formats. A typical lecture includes a mix of tutor led lecture content alongside structured activities and tasks to allow students to gain and share theoretical knowledge, and apply this new knowledge to practical public health examples.
All our modules are supported by Blackboard (the online learning environment), where weekly lecture notes and wider reading is available to students.
You will be expected to manage your own enquiry-based learning. Learning takes place alongside students from a wide range of disciplines and from a wide range of countries. This provides a rich learning environment concordant with contemporary multi-disciplinary approaches to public health.
Most teaching will be between 10am and 3pm. Modules run for seven weeks. There will be some activities (including elements of assessment) which fall outside these times, but notice will be given of these.
Assessment
Each 20-credit module is assessed at the end of the module using two pieces of assessment. All modules are assessed using a range of methods, and usually have one coursework element and one exam element.
The coursework element uses written formats that you might use in public health practice and includes including a project, a portfolio, a community profile, an oral presentation, a poster presentation, a literature review, a report, a briefing paper and a protocol.
The exam elements include a mix of exams and include short answer, practical tasks, MCQs and essay style exams.
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