MPH Public Health

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University of Glasgow

Comments about MPH Public Health - At the institution - Glasgow - Scotland

• Entry requirements
  Entry requirements At least a second class Honours degree. Consideration will be given to candidates with a professional qualification in an appropriate subject or who have gained experience in the field of public health.
• Academic title
  MPH Public Health
• Course description
  MPH: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time   
  
  This programme is designed to provide you with a thorough grounding in the principles and practice of public health whilst maintaining a broad-based approach. It equips graduates to pursue a career in public health within a wide variety of professional disciplines. The programme follows a flexible and innovative curriculum and enables you to study under the supervision of some of the leading experts in public health.  Graduates are enabled to develop careers around a broad range of disciplines including health improvement, social work, community development as well as medicine and dentistry.
  
  Content
  
  There are four taught core courses
  
      * Principles of public health  
      * Introduction to statistics
      * Introduction to research methods
      * General epidemiology.
  
  You will also undertake five elective courses from a broad range of topics including: population health; environmental health; qualitative research methods; health economics, social sciences applied to public health; international health; advanced statistics; advanced epidemiology.
  
  You are also required to carry out a research project on a public health topic

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