Study Details: 1 Year Full-time
Develop your foundations of public health knowledge and skills with our postgraduate certificate in public health.
On this PGCert course, you'll gain an understanding of the key concepts and issues in public health, including:
You'll also gain basic skills in research, critical thinking and public health problem solving.
Our public health certificate programme is a shorter postgraduate course including the same key modules and master's-level content as our MPH Public Health degree programme. It is ideal for people who are already working in public health or don't have time to study a full master's degree.
This course will give you:
You'll typically need a 2:1 degree to apply for PGCert Public Health. We may consider a 2:2 degree if you can also evidence relevant professional experience or a strong commitment to public health.
We accept applicants with a variety of degrees. You must be able to show how your degree and interests relate to public health, and demonstrate your numerical competence.
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The employability and enterprise skills you'll gain from this course are reflected in the Southampton skills model. When you join us you'll be able to use our skills model to track, plan, and benefit your career development and progress.
You must study the following module :
Foundations in Public Health
You must also choose from the following modules :
Advanced Epidemiology
Behavioural Operations
Core Skills in GIS
Critical Issues in Global Health: Concepts and Case Studies
Engaging and involving the public with your science
Evaluation for Public Health
Foundational Statistical Methods
GIS for Analysis of Health
Improving Population Health: Theory to Action
Managing Complexity, Uncertainty and Subjectivity
Methods and Analysis of Global Health Trends and Differentials
Nutrition and Health
Population, Poverty & Policy
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