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Public Health Project Management

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Key Facts

  • Module Code

    PUHM008

  • Level

    PostgraduatePG

  • Duration

    One semester, Part Time

  • Starting

    October, February

Updated 10/12/2024

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Overview

This Level 7, 20-credit course can be taken as a single module for continuing professional development or as part of our MSc Public Health course. You will develop comprehensive knowledge on how to identify and assess the health needs of a target population.  You will also develop the skills needed to design, implement and evaluate a public health project intervention to build community capacity and empower the population to improve their health and wellbeing.

Highlights

  • Use credits to build towards the MSc Public Health
  • Opportunity to design a public health project on an identified health need in a community
  • Pro-active approach to teaching and learning

Entry Requirements

Applicants will normally hold a recognised First- or Second-class Honours degree in a subject area that demonstrates applicability to public health practice including:

  • Dentistry, pharmacy, biology, medicine, public health, nursing, environmental health, biomedical health/science, podiatry, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, microbiology, biochemistry.
  • Homeopathic Medicine (including degrees in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery).
  • Zoology and most medical/health background undergraduate degrees. This includes degrees such as BSc Profusion Technology and BSc Radiology.

  • Applications listing degrees not shown above may be referred to the course tutor to assess suitability. We will need to see evidence of:

    • Degree transcripts with exact modules studied.
    • Evidence of experience in public health (if applicable).
    • References for suitability.

Course Content

  • This module will be delivered by a range of teaching methods such as core lectures, group work, online activities, use of case studies and directed learning approaches. Shared learning with other professionals will be a focus of this course and you will be encouraged to develop a critical evaluative approach to the knowledge which underpins present-day public health practice.

    Teaching for this module is a blend of face to face and online sessions. Module assessment strategy will be to design a small-scale intervention for an identified health need for a target population along with a 40-minute oral presentation of the designed health needs intervention, while ensuring all module learning outcomes are met.

    The content of this module includes:

    • Development of public health from the 20th Century
    • International and national public health perspectives
    • Political influences on health
    • The role of multilateral and bilateral funding organisations
    • Agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations
    • Healthy public policy
    • Health inequalities
    • Health needs assessment
    • Project management skills
    • Community development and legal and ethical principles.

Fees and Funding

2024/25 Tuition Fees

Fees quoted relate to study in the Academic Year 24/25 only and may be subject to inflationary increases in future years.

  • Module costs: £920 per 20 credit module

Please contact Karen Edwards for further information about fees for this module.

For more information about possible funding options, please visit our Fees and Funding pages.

  • Fees quoted relate to study in the Academic Year 23/24 only and may be subject to inflationary increases in future years.

    • Module costs: £890 per 20 credit module

Staff

Victory Olorunnipa, Lecturer in Public Health

Lecturer in Public Health
Faculty of Health, Education and Society

Victory Olorunnipa
Puremeluan Major, Senior Lecturer in Public Health

Senior Lecturer in Public Health
Faculty of Health, Education and Society

Puremeluan Major

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