Master of Public Health (Humanitarian Health)

The Master of Public Health has been developed around public health competencies derived from international reference points and covers a range of contemporary issues in public health. You'll explore approaches to reducing health inequalities and learn how to use evidence-based principles to enhance policy and practice. Throughout your studies, you'll develop key transferable skills in epidemiology, research methods and social science.

Core modules will give you a grounding in key subjects and skills.

Semester 1

Core

• Research Methods in Public Health
• Scientific and Professional Skills
• Public Health Policies, Programmes and Strategies

Semester 2

Core

• Scientific and Professional Skills
• Promoting Health and Improving Systems
• The Practice of Humanitarian Relief

Optional

• Climate Change
• Applied Statistics for Health Research
• Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Adolescent Health
• Developing a Disease Control Programme

Semester 3

You'll have the opportunity to apply your new skills in a 60-credit research project focused on Humanitarian and Public Health Programmes. You can choose to do your project in the UK or abroad.

Study pattern

The first two taught semesters cover five core 20-credit modules and one 20-credit module optional module.

For each 20 credit module, you're expected to spend about 200 hours learning, which includes contact time, self-directed learning and assessments.

The third semester is dedicated to your 60-credit personal project or dissertation, which can be desk or fieldwork-based, and can be completed in the UK or overseas.

Delivery

You'll be taught by our international experts in public health, and benefit from the dynamic research-led environment we're so proud of at LSTM.

Careers

In some of the poorest countries in the world, public health emergencies such as Covid-19, Ebola, influenza and MERS have been exacerbated by humanitarian crises such as the wars in Syria and Ukraine, mass migration and conditions in refugee camps, as well as an increase in natural disasters such as flooding and earthquakes.

With climate change and political instability causing havoc across the globe, experts in humanitarian health are in high demand, as we work together to create public health solutions in challenging circumstances.

This course will prepare you to work on the ground for high profile humanitarian organisations, including UN agencies, NGOs and aid organisations, as well as desk-based or research activities for health departments and universities.

You'll be trained to make a difference where it matters most, in conflict-related situations, supporting victims of displacement or persecution, and helping those affected by natural and man-made disasters.