Study Details: 1 Year Full-time
Advance your public health knowledge and develop essential skills with our postgraduate diploma in public health.
On this PGDip course, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the key concepts in public health, such as:
You'll also gain research skills, as well as skills in using data and critical appraisal, which are essential to any role in public health.
This postgraduate course contains key modules from the same master's-level content as our MPH Public Health degree programme, but does not require you to study the full master's.
Our public health diploma course will give you:
Typically, you'll need a 2:1 degree to apply for our postgraduate diploma in public health. We may consider a 2:2 degree if you can evidence relevant professional experience or a strong commitment to public health.
Our successful applicants have a wide range of degrees – when applying for PGDip Public Health, you need to show how your degree and interests connect to public health. You must also 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 modules :
Foundational Statistical Methods
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
Evaluation for Public Health
GIS for Analysis of Health
Managing Complexity, Uncertainty and Subjectivity
Methods and Analysis of Global Health Trends and Differentials
Nutrition and Health
Population, Poverty & Policy
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