Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh · Full-time
Global Health
The MSc Global Health will offer you a thorough grounding in this multidisciplinary field, with the opportunity to specialise your studies if you wish later on. Global health is increasingly being framed as a major driver of development, international co-opera…
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Institute for Global Health and Development · Subjects allied to medicine
The MSc Global Health will offer you a thorough grounding in this multidisciplinary field, with the opportunity to specialise your studies if you wish later on. Global health is increasingly being framed as a major driver of development, international co-operation and diplomacy, both during and beyond outbreaks of infectious diseases such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This makes it not only a very interesting field of study, but also an incredibly important one regardless of the setting you will work in. How can societies implement more effective intervention strategies to improve access, affordability and quality of health services, especially for vulnerable populations? Who is responsible for initiating and then delivering the strategy in a low-income setting? The answers to most of the important questions in this field are complex and your studies will prepare you to answer them through a multidisciplinary approach. This is about gaining a truly global perspective on the state of people’s health, and enhancing your knowledge through a systematic examination of health problems and their determinants. This course will be relevant to you if you are working, or planning to work, in enhancing population health in low- or middle-income settings, be this within governmental (eg ministries of health), non-governmental or intergovernmental organisations (eg WHO or UN agencies). It will equip you to work effectively at a senior level to promote the health and social wellbeing of populations through the development of effective and responsive health systems. It will orient you to issues on which Institute staff are recognised to have made world-leading research contributions, such as supporting health systems strengthening in fragile and conflict-affected states, and mental health and psychosocial support for vulnerable populations. Participants are typically drawn from a broad range of backgrounds, including physicians, nurses, allied health professions, development and humanitarian workers as well as health ministry and NGO employees.
Getting in
As the university states it
A UK honours degree or equivalent from a relevant subject area (arts, humanities, health or social sciences). Students without an honours degree may be considered if they have other relevant qualifications and/or appropriate work experience. International: You will be required to provide evidence of English language competence at no less than IELTS 6.5 with no individual component score less than 6.0.
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