Public Health

The course is structured to allow knowledge transfer between home and overseas students, enabling you to benefit from best practice from all over the world. You’ll study the underlying causes, mechanisms and potential public health intervention strategies aimed at reducing health inequalities. Elements of the course have a global perspective, so you’ll get to study global, environmental and public health issues to gain an international perspective. If you’re an international student you’ll be able to study topics that are directly relevant to your native country, as well as looking at UK specific issues. Our teaching team are friendly, approachable, and include public health specialists, environmental health practitioners, biomedical scientists, and psychologists. They will provide you with a broad perspective on public health issues that is firmly based in practice through case studies. Public health specialists may mentor and support you throughout the course and research opportunities with the public health team may be available. This is an industry course with a focus on case studies, scenarios from real public health scenarios. This will give you skills to excel in practice in your future careers. Note that it does not provide readiness for the Faculty of Public Health examination (Part A). The Master of Public Health programme has been mapped to the Public Health England Skills and Knowledge Framework, the Practitioner Competencies of the United Kingdom Public Health Register (UKPHR) and the overarching nine key competency areas of the Functions of the Local Public Health System. On successful completion of the course, graduates are able to apply for registration with UKPHR. You will meet a multi-professional team of lecturers that are experts in their field from Public Health, Health, Environmental Health and the medical field. The programme team have good employer links especially Derby City Council Public Health Department. An academic personal tutor will be allocated to each MPH student, from within the programme team, at the beginning of the programme.