Program Overview

A well-established and internationally renowned programme, the MPH develops public health professionals to become leaders in the protection and promotion of population and planetary health and wellbeing.

Applicants are encouraged to apply from a range of backgrounds, from medical and health professionals to analysts, computer and data scientists, engineers, architects, planners, environmental health officers, journalists, lawyers, economists, innovators, entrepreneurs and business professionals. This represents the interdisciplinary nature of public health research and practice, in line with the World Health Organisation Health In All Policies approach.

This is a full-time, face to face programme, delivered in 1 academic year and is supported by eLearning material housed on a modern web interface, suitable for traditional computers and tablets and using flipped teaching approaches to learning. You will experience a large range of learning approaches in this programme including debates, discussion forums and plenary sessions delivered by key experts in the field. The use of multiple approaches for you to learn will build a community of practice and enhance your collaboration with your peer and the faculty while respective that individuals will have different learning styles and needs.

The programme consists of 4 core modules in which you explore the fundamentals of epidemiology, critically apply statistical methods in public health, apply epidemiological principles in a public health context and examine the role of health policy and planning with an introduction to health economics.  You will also complete 2 speciality modules of your choice, enabling you to develop your public health interests.

There are 4 speciality modules to choose from.  They offer you the opportunity to develop expertise to promote and lead change through engaging with health policy, leadership and management research and theory, examine the importance of communicable disease surveillance, the impact of the environment on public health and methods for assessing and promoting health strategies, to maintain and improve population health, from both the UK and global perspectives.  These modules will support you in making informed, strategic decisions in population health and will allow you to apply your learning on the programme by the critical evaluation of relevant case study scenarios in these fields of public health.

To gain the Master’s qualification, you will be required to undertake a final dissertation project on a suitable public health topic. This will be supported through negotiation with the programme faculty and your supervisor.

It is a required course for public health trainees in Wales preparing for the examination for membership of the Faculty of Public Health.

The course aims to provide you with the knowledge to:

• Quantitatively and qualitatively assess the population’s health and health needs, including the determinants and status of health and well-being and development of effective action
• Critically evaluate the evidence relating to the effectiveness of health and healthcare interventions, programmes and services
• Reflect on theory and evidence, synthesising findings to promote the health of populations by influencing lifestyle and socio-economic, physical and cultural environment through methods of health promotion, including health education
• Synthesise contemporaneous evidence bases and key guidelines to protect the public’s health from communicable and environmental hazards
• Collect, generate, synthesise, appraise, analyse, interpret and communicate intelligence that measures the health status, risks, needs and health outcomes of defined populations
• Strategically develop, manage, and lead innovative and inter-sectoral solutions to tackle contemporary problems, such as global climate change, environmental pollution, antimicrobial resistance, obesity and non-communicable diseases.