Public Health MPH
Newcastle University
Key Information
Campus location
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
12 - 36 months
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
GBP 26,400 / per year *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2023
* international students; GBP 10,500 - home students full-time; GBP 5,250 - home students part-time 24 months per year; GBP 3,500 - home students part-time 36 months per year;
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Introduction
Our Master of Public Health offers you a broad range of public health competencies. You'll develop high-level research skills to progress in public health settings.
This master's in Public Health (MPH) helps you pursue a career in public health in the UK and internationally with:
- the UK National Health Service (or its equal abroad)
- local government
- the voluntary sector
- academic healthcare
A public health doctor must consider issues at many levels, including:
- societal (eg health inequalities)
- demographic (ageing and long-term conditions)
- cultural (eg changing public attitudes to health and wellness)
- social (eg drug and alcohol abuse)
You'll address these issues with a range of advanced research skills. You'll study how to apply research findings to improve health and health services.
You'll study in the Population and Health Sciences Institute in the Faculty of Medical Sciences.
Rankings
- 1st in the UK and 8th in the world for sustainable development – Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2022
- 42% of our research is classified as 4* world-leading research – Research Excellence Framework 2021
- 65% increase in research power since 2014 – Research Excellence Framework 2021
- Global Top 125 University - QS World University Rankings 2023
- Global Top 140 University - Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023
- Top 125 for Clinical and Health – Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2022
- Top 70 for Life Sciences and Medicine - QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022
Curriculum
What you'll learn
Challenges in public health that you'll explore include:
- tackling and challenging health inequalities and other social determinants of health
- the role of behavioural interventions in public health
- public and patient engagement and involvement, and shared decision making
- health systems and healthcare policy
Modules
You will study modules in this course. A module is a unit of a course with its own approved aims and outcomes and assessment methods.
Compulsory Modules
- Fundamentals of Research 20
- Health Statistics 20
- Public Health Intervention 10
- Health Care Quality 10
- Introduction to systematic reviewing and critical appraisal 10
- Dissertation (FT) 60
Optional Modules
- Advanced Social Determinants of Health 10
- Introduction to Global Health Policy and Medicines Use 10
- Global Health Policy and Medicine Use 20
- Health Economics 10
- Introduction to Health Policy and Health Systems 10
- Public Health Protection 10
- Public Policy, Health and Health Inequalities 10
- Evaluative Methods in Health Services Research 10
- Introduction to Global Health 10
- Global Health 20
- Applications of Epidemiology to Public Health 10
- Chronic Disease Epidemiology 10
Career Opportunities
Our graduates have gone on to work in the:
- government
- international organisations
- the voluntary sector
- healthcare and service delivery
- consultancies
- the private sector where there is involvement in providing healthcare and public services