Global Health & Social Science BA

King's College London

United Kingdom, London

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King's College London

United Kingdom , London

Key Facts

Program Level

Bachelor

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

On Campus

Course Code

L511, L513 (with a year abroad)

Campuses

Main Site

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake DeadlinesSeptember-2023 25-Jan-2023

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Duration 4 year(s)

Tuition Fee

GBP 23,160 / year

Apply Date 25-Jan-2023

Next Intake September-2023

Global Health & Social Science BA

About

The BA (Hons) Global Health and Social Science is a unique degree aimed at students committed to social justice and who want to make a difference in the world. Poverty and disease, racism and health inequalities, climate change and pandemics. Ensuring the health and well-being of people across the globe has never been more pressing or challenging. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that social scientific perspectives on health, illness, and medicine are critical to meet these challenges, because â€˜health is more than a medical matter. People learn most effectively when studying what they care about. For this reason, the degree offers flexibility to tailor the degree to your own interests and career plans. Whether you want to create policy that will promote health equity; be an innovator who thinks creatively about the relationship between mental health and the environment; understand how digital health and AI will change our world; or be a humanitarian health worker, our range of module choices lets you shape your programme to gain knowledge about topics that you care about and develop skills that will prepare you contribute to positive social impact in your future career.

Learn how to apply social science theories and methods – drawn from anthropology and sociology, epidemiology and political science, philosophy and economics – to urgent contemporary problems of health, disease and medicine.

Join one of the fastest growing fields of research (social science of global health and medicine) that will open exciting job opportunities in diverse careers at the intersection of research, policy, and practice.

This degree allows the flexibility to examine the social issues you care most about. This might be how racism and mental distress are related, why addiction-related deaths in the UK continue to rise year-on-year, or how gender-based violence limits access to healthcare globally.

Explore how healthcare systems around the world operate and policymaking in global, international, and national contexts works in practice not theory.

Study in a friendly and supportive Department, located by the Thames in the heart of London. Our internationally renowned social scientists have strong track records of delivering high quality research-led education and strong connections with national, international and global health organisations.

Study abroad for a year (subject to change year on year and COVID regulations) at one of our partner institutions: University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill); University of Melbourne; Western University (Ontario, Canada); National University of Singapore; Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Certificate of General Secondary Education will not be considered for direct entry - study our International Foundation Programme instead. Please note: students completing King's International Foundation programme will not be able to progress onto our Dentistry programmes.

English Program Requirements

To study at King's, it is essential that you can communicate effectively in English and are able to do so in an academic environment. You are usually required to provide certification of your competence in English before starting your studies.

Career

Employability

The COVID-19 pandemic shows the social science of global health and medicine has never been more important in meeting the significant social, political and ecological challenges facing the world.

Destinations

This degree provides a rigorous intellectual and empirical grounding for careers in public administration, NGOs and INGOs, charities, think tanks, academia, and social advocacy organisations. Our graduates enter a wide range of professions within health services, public health, government, and NGOs in the UK and beyond. For example:

Policy (e.g., Nuffield Council on Bioethics, King's Fund, UK Biobank Ethics & Governance Council, public health policy analyst World Health Organization)
National and international NGOs (e.g., Cancer Research UK, British Lung Foundation, MÃ©decins Sans FrontiÃ¨res, Gates Foundation, Malaria No More)
Government (Department of Health, Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority, Health Research Authority, Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology)
Private sector (e.g., management consultancy, political affairs, pharmaceutical companies)
Academia (postdoctoral study).