Become familiar with core concepts in epidemiology, and acquire the skills necessary to describe, analyse, interpret, and appraise epidemiological studies.

Build your appreciation of a range of core public health principles and skills, and develop your expertise in problem solving and consulting.

Understand the importance of statistical thinking in epidemiology, randomised trials and public health, and carry out a range of statistical analyses.

Explore core concepts related to the research cycle, and acquire key skills involved in designing, planning, and conducting research.

Study the basic principles of microeconomics and their application to healthcare. This module is delivered by the Imperial College Business School

Developed by the NIHR ARC-NWL team  (National Institute for Health and Care Research, Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London), this module draws on academic literature and research in quality improvement and applies it to real life practical examples. 

You may also carry out an external visit to meet quality improvement teams working in healthcare.

Examine the theoretical basis and practical applications of health promotion, including methods for evaluating health promotion interventions.

Scrutinise the process of designing an appropriate participatory approach to a given public health challenge, and examine the history, theory and practice of these approaches.

Examine the portfolio of digital health technologies, and the opportunities to apply these technologies to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare.

Appreciate the complexity of tackling health determinants, inequity, and health outcomes within a globalising world.

Understand the roles and processes of innovation in global health, including simple, low-cost technologies and more complex models used in resource-constrained settings.

Analyse contrasting concepts that explain health systems and draw upon multiple disciplinary lenses, including organisational behaviour and health policy. 

Develop skills to appraise public health strategies, control programmes, and surveillance systems for both emerging and neglected tropical diseases.

Realise the importance of exposure assessment in epidemiology, risk assessment, and public health protection, and critically evaluate different approaches to these assessments.

Advance your knowledge of how to design, implement and analyse data in the framework of an environmental epidemiological study.

Build awareness of health impact assessments and their importance in influencing health policy.

Explore the intricate connections between the health of our planet and public health.  

Through a ‘One Health’ approach, you'll explore global environmental challenges and examine their impacts on human health, animals and environmental justice issues.  

Explain the use of environmental data to tackle significant global public health challenges and explore the impacts of the use of waste plastic as a fuel.

You'll address issues related to wastewater management, understand the impact of wildfires, and assess the environmental implications of electric vehicles.

Understand key concepts in advanced statistics and data science and advance your skills using realistic data sets.

Review the basic methods used in mathematical models and learn how to construct a mathematical model for a given infectious disease.

Become familiar with the underlying principles of public health nutrition, and nutritional epidemiology in the context of public health.

Advance your knowledge of how to design, implement and analyse data in the framework of an environmental epidemiological study.

Review the basic methods used in mathematical models and learn how to construct a mathematical model for a given infectious disease.

Develop skills to appraise public health strategies, control programmes, and surveillance systems for both emerging and neglected tropical diseases.

Analyse contrasting concepts that explain health systems and draw upon multiple disciplinary lenses,including organisational behaviour and health policy.

Deepen your understanding of how health systems are organised and financed, and the advantages and disadvantages of different health financing models and delivery systems.

This module is delivered by the Imperial College Business School.

Utilise key health policy analysis models to explore the complexity of policy making and policy change, in the realm of the increasingly important issue of the commercial determinants of health.