Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [Business and Marketing] From University of Lincoln

New for September 2019 intake: This course now has two streams allowing you to follow the one that is most suitable for your career aims. The first stream focuses on health interventions and services (stream A) and the second on health policy and systems (stream B). You will also be able to select from 10 optional module choices to further customise your course.

In theÊ programme at University of Leeds, youÕll learn to:

• analyse issues in health policy and health services using epidemiological and statistical tools to critically review evidence
• develop the essential skills to improve existing (and build new) health services programmes and management systems
• evaluate different strategies for disease control in order to select the most effective and feasible programmes
• discuss ethical issues, and adopt and justify an appropriate ethical stance.

YouÕll benefit from an international learning environment, with fellow-professionals from a range of countries and areas of expertise.

The Master of Public Health (International) is designed for you if you are a health professional with diverse experience in national health systems. For example you may be a district and provincial medical officer, disease control, reproductive and child health and other programme officer, health service manager, community nurse, health educationalist or general medical practitioner. We have recently updated this well-established MPH programme to reflect the needs of our students in 2018 and beyond.

You can also study this subject as Master of Public Health International (12 months with dissertation based on secondary data) and at Postgraduate Diploma (9 months) or Postgraduate Certificate level (3 months).

The 12-month variant concludes with a 10,000 word dissertation that you write in your final semester which gives you space for in-depth examination of an area of public health that is relevant to your work and career plans.

The 18-month variant replaces the dissertation with a research project based on primary data collection, see below for details.

Career opportunities

Graduates of this course have gone on to work in:

• ministries of health
• international organisations
• civil society organisations
• universities
• consulting firms
• private health providers

The Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development has taught international health and development programmes at Leeds for over 30 years and so has a large alumni network of:

• public health specialists
• health systems experts
• health managers
• planners holding senior positions around the world