iheed Master of Public Health

Entry requirements

Hold a 2:2 honours degree from a recognised institution

Months of entry

January, May, September

Course content

Many countries are experiencing rapidly changing socio-economic landscapes, increasing urbanisation, and shifting disease patterns, underscoring the urgent need to develop a healthcare workforce possessing a comprehensive understanding of public health principles and the capacity to effectively implement them in professional practice. This programme aims to educate public health professionals who are capable of navigating the dynamic landscape of global health issues and to implement effective, evidence-based strategies and to promote health and well-being in diverse populations.

The University of Warwick / iheed Master of Public Health is a comprehensive programme, carefully designed to cover a wide range of topics relevant to public health practice, including epidemiology, population-health, health promotion, health protection, health services management, and research methods. The unique partnership between the University of Warwick and iheed brings together Warwick’s academic excellence and iheed’s unrivalled expertise in online healthcare education. This ensures that graduates are well-prepared to tackle various public health issues in a range of settings, from local communities to international organisations.

The programme cover contemporary areas such as climate change, gender and race discrimination, healthy cities, and global mental health. Our curriculum, closely aligned with the Faculty of Public Health’s Diplomate examination, provides a highly engaging, richly informative, and convenient educational opportunity for busy professionals and is accessible through a dedicated state-of-the-art online learning environment.

Through successful completion of the programme, learners will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge and critical understanding of methods of practice of public health, including disease prevention, health protection, communicable disease control and screening.
2. Demonstrate how epidemiological and statistical principles can be applied to health promotion.
3. Demonstrate a critical understanding of sociological determinants of health and illness.
4. Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of health improvement approaches.
5. Critically examine whether a public health intervention is working.
6. Formulate possible solutions to global health issues relating to health protection, health promotion, health improvement and health services.
7. Demonstrate an understanding of key economic concepts and justify the use of these concepts to support health policy and health promotion.
8. Demonstrate self-direction and originality in the critical evaluation and synthesis of the research evidence in an area of public health, and consider possible developments and improvements for implementation.
9. Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of different research methodologies and how these might be applied to research in public health and health promotion, and report the findings in the format of a journal article and an academic poster.