The online course lasts one calendar year and is a part-time distance learning course, with six modules per year, each of six weeks duration.
Contemporary issues in public health
This module will provide an overview of the introduction to public health and explore relevant definitions.
Environmental/geopolitical determinants of health
Students will critically use relevant data and evidence to understand the impact of environmental/geopolitical issues and interventions to protect the population’s health.
Data and intelligence
Students will critically use relevant data collected by a variety of methods and techniques to survey and assess a population’s health.
Dealing with complexity
This module will develop knowledge of a range of effective strategic leadership, organisational and management skills in a variety of complex public health situations and contexts, dealing effectively with uncertainty and the unexpected to achieve public health goals.
Protecting the public's health
During this module students will critically apply the evidence base to address issues within public health care systems and develop an understanding of needs assessment and health impact assessment to support evidence-based interventions.
Public health within health and care systems
Students will critically apply the evidence base to address issues within public health care systems and develop an understanding of needs assessment and health impact assessment to support evidence-based interventions.