Brunel's Health Economics & Health Policy MSc online aims to facilitate you to gain advanced skills, principles and knowledge for a career in healthcare and health policy organisations (e.g. health services, government, universities, the non-profit sector, research units, pharmaceutical industry). Develop a critical approach to health economics and the application of economic tools to evaluate healthcare intervention and policy, whilst acquiring advanced academic and research skills.

This MSc Health Economics and Health Policy Analysis will enable you to apply economic and policy theory and practice for this purpose, and to a range of complex challenges facing the global community (for example inequalities, mental health, infectious disease, climate change, health and social care provision).

MSc in Economics and Business with a Specialisation in Health Economics is a major sector of a modern economy, accounting for 10-18% of GDP in high-income countries. Advances in medical technology generate substantial improvements in population health but also create major economic and social challenges. Healthcare costs are rising rapidly. Population aging both increases the need for health care and reduces the fraction of people working to pay for it. Health inequalities remain stubbornly high and further reduce productivity.

You'll learn how to examine health issues from an economic perspective and develop the skills to conduct impactful analyses that help healthcare decision-makers maximise the efficiency of limited resources. Additionally, you'll gain a deep understanding of the economic and policy frameworks that shape primary healthcare management.

Brunel University London’s Public Health and Health Promotion MSc online has been designed to help ambitious professionals gain advanced skills and competencies in public health and health promotion. The programme will also help you acquire a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and solving contemporary public health and health promotion challenges by providing you with advanced knowledge of related areas including health promotion, global public health policy, politics, sociology, psychology, and research skills.

Brunel’s MSc Global Public Health and Social Justice (online) has been designed to help ambitious professionals gain advanced skills and competencies in global public health and social justice. The course will help you acquire a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and solving contemporary public health and social justice challenges from a global perspective. You will obtain advanced knowledge of related areas including global public health policy, politics, sociology, epidemiology, health economics and research skills.

Worldwide popular with specialists in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry and ideally suited for scientists with the desire for professional reorientation:

The Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (PEP) provides a flexible curriculum for advanced training in pharmaceutical economics and policy, and pharmacy administration. Focus areas of the Master of Science program include pharmaceutical economics and policy, global drug policy, pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research, health epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, and pharmacy management.

Our Master's track in Health Policy and Economics provides a modern take on the traditional public health degree. We train future policy analysts and researchers to identify the most effective ways of delivering high-quality healthcare at a lower cost. Students learn to apply advanced research methods from biostatistics, econometrics, and decision science to evaluate policies and programs while gaining valuable real-world experience.

The Master’s in Health Economics (LM-56) aims to train the professionals required to satisfy the increasing demand for qualified experts in the health sector. The multidisciplinary program provides students with skills in health economics and policy, hygiene and epidemiology, pharmacoeconomics and economic evaluation, business management and performance evaluation, health statistics, and health law.

As a student of the programme, you benefit from the expertise of two top universities and enjoy the advantages offered by the interdisciplinary approach. You study at each university for one year and will graduate with two master's degrees: a Master of Science in Health Economics from the University of Cologne and a Master of Science in Healthcare Policy, Innovation and Management from Maastricht University.