Public Health MPH/PgDip/PgCert

The MPH Public Health aims to promote health, prevent disease, reduce inequalities in health, and prolong life. The population perspective of public health ensures that its practitioners are well placed to improve health wherever they are.

Our Master of Public Health degree reflects the multidisciplinary nature of public health through its flexible and innovative curriculum. Our programme enjoys strong links with the NHS, its public health practitioners and other regional and national bodies, ensuring student access to some of the country's leading authorities in public health.

Students will also achieve PgCert and PgDip exit awards during this course.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

• Taught by academics and practitioners from a wide variety of organisations and disciplines including Health Protection Scotland, environmental health, environmental protection, public health medicine, health economics and business/management.
• Multidiscplinary in focus, attracting students with undergraduate degrees in nursing, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and other health related specialisms.
• Option to graduate the MPH with or without specialisms by following certain courses. The specialisms are: Epidemiology, Data Science, Health Promotion, Health Economics
• Central role in guiding health care practice, influencing health policy, protecting the public, and improving population health.
• Among the earliest academic fields to move towards a multidisciplinary range of programmes involving staff from a number of areas. Current disciplines represented include health promotion, health protection, sociology, psychology, epidemiology, statistics, and health economics.
• Recognised in most countries as an essential qualification for a career in public health.

CAREER PROSPECTS

Graduates have entered a wide range of professions and job roles across the world, for example:

• public health specialist
• clinical senior researcher
• policy officer
• senior research nurse
• lead pharmacist
• specialist registrar
• research scientist.
• lecturer
• health development manager
• public health advisor
• health programme specialists
• medical practitioner positions in public health
• clinical university teacher
• research positions
• Others have gone on to study for PhDs in public heath and epidemiology.

A relevant first degree, at least at 2.1 honours level, or equivalent.