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University of Glasgow: Global Health
| Institution | University of Glasgow View institution profile |
|---|---|
| Department | School of Social & Political Sciences View department profile |
| Web | glasgow.ac.uk/socialpolitical |
| Study type | Taught |
Summary
A unique opportunity for you to develop a critical understanding of the key issues within health and medicine, health policy and health planning, and of the determinants of health and health inequalities from a social science perspective.
The MSc and MRes are both designed to allow you to focus your learning around the global health issues that interest you most, and are fully interdisciplinary in their structure and content.
The MSc and MRes are both designed to allow you to focus your learning around the global health issues that interest you most, and are fully interdisciplinary in their structure and content.
- You will examine health issues that arise for different population groups and across national boundaries, including the social and cultural constructions of health, chronic illness and disability, and global and national health policies.
- You will make a critical analysis of health and its determinants, and develop a deep understanding of the influence and role of equality/inequality, demographics and location on health.
- You will study social science research methods, and apply them in the completion of an original piece of research.
- You will be taught by experts from the following world-leading centres based at the University: Institute of Health & Wellbeing, MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research, Centre for the History of Medicine, and Policy Scotland.
- You will become part of a leading centre of applied and policy related research bringing together expertise in health inequalities, health and wellbeing, disability, urban health, health economics and the history of medicine.
- Participate in networking activities, for example, inviting international Global Health professionals to attend a Careers in Global Health event, and a week-long fact-finding trip to Geneva (or other European centre for Global Health organisations).
- Taught by experts from the following world-leading centres based at the University: Institute of Health & Wellbeing, MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research, Centre for the History of Medicine, and Policy Scotland.
- Closely supported to build the skills, experience and networks that will open doors to you in your future career in Global Health.
In the MSc, you will take three core and three optional courses. In the MRes, you will take four core courses and two optional courses. In both programmes, courses will be delivered via lectures and seminars. You will also undertake an independent research project focusing on an issue in Global Health that particularly interests you, and will submit this as a dissertation at the end of your degree.
MSc core courses
- GLOBAL HEALTH IN SOCIAL CONTEXT
- IMPROVING HEALTH AND SOCIETY: PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION
- RESEARCH DESIGN or QUALITATIVE METHODS
MRes core courses
- GLOBAL HEALTH IN SOCIAL CONTEXT
- RESEARCH DESIGN
- QUALITATIVE METHODS
- QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS
Optional courses may include
- COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
- CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND BIOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF MENTAL HEALTH
- ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTH
- EPIDEMIOLOGY, EVIDENCE AND STATISTICS FOR PRIMARY CARE
- EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
- GLOBALISATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH
- HEALTH AND CULTURE
- HEALTH ECONOMICS FOR HTA ONLINE
- HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT (ONLINE)
- IMPROVING ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT
- MANAGING HEALTH CARE ORGANISATIONS
- MENTAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLICY
- MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION ACROSS THE LIFE-SPAN
- RESEARCH DESIGN
- QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS (for MSc only)
- UNDERSTANDING HEALTH POLICY
Throughout your time at Glasgow you will have the opportunity to be closely supported in preparing for your future career in Global Health.
Early in the programme, you will be given advice on career pathways and how to achieve them, and how to use social media to enhance your career prospects.
There will also be an opportunity to organise an event that brings together leading global health professionals and benefit from their experience of forging a successful career in this field.
Our graduates have gone on to various careers, for example:
- health care professionals
- health care policy advisors
- health improvement specialist
- NHS management trainee
- registered nurse
- psychotherapist
- work in public health care systems, and the voluntary and third sectors
Others have gone on to study for PhDs in related fields (the MRes is accredited as providing PhD-level research methods training).
MRes
MSc
The University of Glasgow’s School of Social & Political Sciences links core social science disciplines to deliver high-quality teaching and cutting-edge research. We offer a wide variety of programmes for those interested in the development and impact of economies and societies globally.
Founded in 1451, the University of Glasgow is the fourth oldest university in the English-speaking world. The University has a history of changing the world and the School of Social & Political Sciences is committed to nurturing the people who make it happen.
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