Program Overview

This MSc programme addresses the escalating threats from emerging diseases originating from human-animal interactions, driven by environmental and climate change, global travel and trade, food insecurity, deforestation and biodiversity loss, and other human-caused factors. You’ll be part of a new cadre of scientists with interdisciplinary knowledge and skills to help tackle these complex global challenges.

Our Planetary and One Health MSc programme will provide lifelong learning, technical and transferable skills, scientific training, and opportunities for employment in rapidly growing fields that address global health, environmental change, disease control, and public health implementation across the medical and veterinary sectors.

You will be taught by internationally renowned infection and health scientists and clinicians in practice, to provide in-depth scientific knowledge and you will receive training for research that can be applied to academic, governmental, non-governmental, commercial, and public health settings.

In addition, you will learn digital, informatic, and mapping skills and the utilisation of open-access climate and environmental data that are of increasing importance for infectious disease research and many employers.

Please note that this programme is suitable for intercalating medical and veterinary students.

What you'll learn

• Statistical techniques in the design of experiments in biological research
• Evaluating issues associated with emerging infectious disease and global outbreaks
• Understanding of models and data results, and their application to health research
• Investigating complex health problems through a One Health lens, with a multi-disciplinary approach to disease drivers and policy connection
• Practical skills in using mapping / analytical software (i.e. QGIS and R) to analyse the spatial patterns and risk factors associated with human and animal health
• Knowledge and skills for investigating planetary health issues, such as climate change, land use change, biodiversity loss, population movement, and disease spread