Master of Public Health - MPH

About the course

1 year full time/2 years part time/part time by distance learning

Public health is about improving and protecting the health of groups of people. You'll be interested in why people become ill, how this can be prevented and how they can be treated.

This course will help you analyse public health problems and develop solutions. It is popular with UK, EU and overseas students, and the modules put the study of public health into an international context.

Entry requirements

2:1 honours degree, or a recognised medical degree or significant experience in public health.

English language requirements for overseas students

IELTS 7.0 (with no less than 6.5 in each part), or TOEFL 100 (iBT), or equivalent

Entry requirements for international students 

Core modules

• Key Issues in Global Public Health
• Introduction to Research Methods
• Introduction to Statistics and Critical Appraisal
• Assessing Health Needs and Addressing Inequalities
• Systematic Reviews and Critical Appraisal Techniques

Optional modules

• International Health: systems and policy; Epidemiology
• Maximising Usefulness of Secondary Data Sources
• Public Health Informatics
• Gender Relations, Health and Health Care
• Contemporary Health Psychology
• Leading and Managing Public Health Care Systems
• GIS in Public Health Practice
• Communicable Disease Control
• Disaster and Emergency Management
• Health Care Financing and Economic Evaluation
• Sociology of Health and Illness
• Health Promotion
• Dissertation

Full-time, part-time or distance learning

You can study full-time over a year or part-time over two years. If you take the part-time option, you'll attend one full day of teaching per week during term time.

Lectures take place on a Friday in the first year and Wednesday in the second year. Some optional sessions, such as visiting lectures and skills classes may be delivered at other times.

Distance learning is by online delivery, pulling in all the elements of the MPH suite of programmes. Modules will also be offered on an individual basis for continuing professional development (CPD).

Teaching

• Lectures
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Independent study

Assessment

• Coursework
• Examinations
• Dissertation

Fees and funding

Financial information for postgraduate taught courses

Any questions?

If you'd like to know more about any aspect of our courses, contact us:

Teaching Support Unit
E: scharrtu@sheffield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)114 222 5454

Your career

Our courses help you develop the skills and knowledge you need to understand and improve health services. We offer postgraduate study programmes for health and social care professionals, managers and those wanting a career in health services research.

Our graduates go on to positions in health services management and health and social care, and to further clinical training or academic research.

About us

We employ around 200 staff and attract £6 million per year in external support. Our staff are active in their research. This means that what we teach you is based on current findings. We have experts in health economics, public health sciences, the sociology of health, health psychology, decision analysis, management sciences, epidemiology, medical statistics and information science.

Our programmes are popular with students from all over the world. We currently have over 28 different nationalities of students enrolled on our courses.

Facilities

We have purpose-built executive teaching facilities for our students. You'll have 24/7 access to library and computing facilities. We provide specialist information and library services in our information resources section.

Apply now

You can apply for postgraduate study using our Postgraduate Online Application Form. It is a quick and easy process.

Postgraduate Online Application Form