University of Bristol - Health and Life Sciences

MSc Public Health

This programme will develop your interest, knowledge and understanding of the three domains of public health: health improvement, health protection and healthcare services.

Your learning will be informed by the highest quality research and be focused on, and reflective of, the public health challenges in the UK and internationally. You will experience and contribute to a wide range of face to face and lectures, workshops, practicals, guest talks, and asynchronous lectures and activities.

The programme will provide you with a firm theoretical grounding in the principles and practice across the topic areas of public health, health improvement, epidemiology and statistics, research methods and evaluation, health protection, health economics, ethics, and healthcare services.

Through the units, you will develop essential knowledge, understanding and critical awareness of current public health practice and research approaches. You will develop your perceptive, critical, and reflective skills through the course. We encourage you to be curious about the discipline, develop your ability to frame questions, work effectively with others listen and contribute to informed discussions.

By completing tasks and assessments you will develop a range of skills directly relevant to working in the real world of public health, including undertaking statistical analysis, writing protocols, short reports, blog posts and short answer questions.

For your dissertation, you will undertake a research project, chosen by you, and write this as a journal article, which you may then choose to publish as a peer-reviewed publication. You will graduate with an expansive set of skills that will have directly prepared you for careers in public health or a further higher degree in this field.

The programme covers many parts of the Faculty of Public Health's Diplomate Exam.

Beyond this programme you will have the opportunity to meet and study with (through shared units) students from other MSc programmes within the school, including Epidemiology, Health Economics and Health Policy Analysis and Medical Statistics and Health Data Science, enhancing your skills of transdisciplinary thinking.