Master of Public Health
At a glance...
Course code: A3BH
Duration: 1 year (full time)
Start date: October
Organised by: School of Public Health
Associated department: Healthcare Management Group, Imperial College Business School
Course organiser: Dr Christine Franey (c.franey@imperial.ac.uk)
Course director: Professor Azeem Majeed (a.majeed@imperial.ac.uk)
How to apply
This programme provides a comprehensive introduction to public health for students intending to practice in public health or related fields. It offers a cutting edge knowledge and skills base for both non-medical and medically qualified students.
It is particularly suited to students who wish to pursue a career in public health research or public health management based on quantitative analytical skills.
Objectives
- Design, analyse, interpret and evaluate epidemiological and biomedical research.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the essential principles of modern biostatistical methods.
- Apply current research methods in key areas of chronic disease epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, and environmental exposure.
- Demonstrate skills in health information analysis, report writing and communication.
- Demonstrate understanding of health systems, policy and financing and key global health issues.
- Demonstrate understanding of, and skills in, needs assessment, health equity audit, health impact assessment, health care evaluation, changing health behaviour, health intervention planning and health economics.
New for 2013/14! A Global Health stream of the MPH will begin in October 2013. Students who follow this stream will have more dedicated time to understand the health, economic, political, social and bio-medical challenges and innovations associated with poor health that can effect people based anywhere in the world.
Imperial College is one of the world’s leading research universities. Students will have the opportunity to learn public health skills from eminent academics, a large PhD cohort and an active academic seminar programme.
Teachers are drawn from research groups leading international level research on infectious diseases, chronic diseases like cancer, cardiovascular and diabetes and genetic, environmental and spatial epidemiology and statistics. The course tutors also include colleagues active in health services research with access to large databases, management colleagues at Imperial College Business School and public health specialists.
