The full MPH consists of three core modules:

• Epidemiology, Statistics and Health Information (40 credits)
• Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (10 credits)
• Health Care Evaluation and Needs Assessment (10 credits)

Option modules: Students then choose 60 credits of option modules from a wide range of public health-related subjects:

• Communicable Disease (20 credits)
• Environment and Health (20 credits)
• Advanced Statistical Methods (10 credits)
• Advanced Statistical Methods Evidence Synthesis (10 credits: this module can only be taken if Advanced Statistical Methods has been taken first)
• Advanced Applied Epidemiology (10 credits: this module can only be taken if Advanced Statistical Methods has been taken first)
• Public Health Management (20 credits)
• Oral Health and Dental Services (20 credits)
• Sociology and Social Policy (10 credits)
• Health Economics (10 credits)
• Public Health in Developing Countries (10 credits)

A research dissertation is also carried out (60 credits).

* People living overseas – closing date Friday 25 January 2008 (applications may still be considered after this date if places are available)
* People living in the UK – closing date Friday 27 June 2008 (applications may still be considered after this date if places are available). How to apply

Please note that entry to many programmes is highly competitive; consequently we also consider your skills, attributes, motivation and potential for success when deciding whether to make an offer. After we have received your application you may, if you live in the UK, be invited for an interview or to visit us to discuss your proposals.

Ms Tricia Henley
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3163
Email: t.henley@bham.ac.uk
Internet: Click here or http://medweb4.bham.ac.uk/cpd/pgt.aspx?id=32

Evidence-Based Healthcare is the application of the best evidence available to make the most appropriate clinical decisions for patients.
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) can be defined as the evaluation of a technology (drugs, medical devices and clinical procedures) through synthesis and systematic review of the scientific evidence. It is concerned with costs and effects of technologies in their widest sense, and use of the information for policy and decision-making.
Over the past 20 years, many countries have implemented a formal policy for supporting and promoting HTA. Several national HTA agencies have been created and are playing an increasingly important role in international and national decision-making. There is an urgent need for experts trained in the production, appraisal and use of HTA reports.

The MSc in EBH and HTA has been established specifically to meet this need and was developed from the highly successful systematic review training course run by the West Midlands Health Technology Assessment Collaboration at the University of Birmingham. It provides both a firm grounding in the knowledge and range of skills and disciplines which are essential to HTA. Topics covered including study design, epidemiology and statistics, economic evaluation, systematic reviews and public health policy and it provides hands on experience of HTA production.

Benefits of doing this course:
• HTA is a new and rapidly developing area.
• There is a global shortage of people with the skills and training to effectively undertake health technology assessments. Therefore employment prospects after graduation are excellent.
• This is the only course in the UK to provide such specialist training and one of only a handful of such courses globally.
• EBH is rapidly gaining ground within medicine as a major force for change.

We welcome applications at any time although the course for full-time and part-time students starts in September each year. Students wishing to take the course flexibly can commence the course at any time. How to apply

For the Masters Programme - good honours degree (lower second or better) or an equivalent professional qualification.
For the PG Diploma and PG Certificate – first degree or other relevant qualification such as Nursing Diploma, HND.
In all cases appropriate career experience will be taken into account.

Tricia Henley, Programme Administrator,
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3163
Email: t.henley@bham.ac.uk
Internet: http://medweb4.bham.ac.uk/cpd/pgt.aspx?id=38

This course provides the opportunity to explore the impacts that environmental stressors have on the physical health and social wellbeing of individuals and communities.

The course provisionally comprises 8 modules:

Food Safety and Public Health; Health Risk Management; Housing Practice including urban and rural regeneration; Environmental Protection; Law; Public Health Integration; Research and Study Skills, and a Research Dissertation. It will include opportunities to work with lecturers and students in other public health-related fields. There will be a special emphasis in providing the student with an understanding of the role of the Environmental Health Practitioner within in the broader public health field, and the necessary networks and partnerships required in the in the delivery of individual and community health related interventions.

Compulsory Modules:

• Epidemiology and Statistics - Primary Care 20 credits
• Qualitative research methods 20 credits

Optional Modules - choose 4 in total - Clinical Modules - select a minimum of 2 from this list

• Anticoagulation management 20 credits
• Cardiovascular disease management 20 credits
• Heart failure management 20 credits
• Hypertension management 20 credits
• Thrombo-embolic disease prevention 20 credits

Non-clinical modules - select any remaining modules from this list

• Introduction to Health Economics 20 credits
• Management of Ethical Dilemmas in Primary Care 20 credits

A relevant first degree or equivalent professional qualification.

Health sector reform has become a key tool as governments and development agencies seek to achieve major development goals such as poverty reduction and sustainable development. This programme enables students to understand the links between health and development, economic and social development strategies, and health sector reform.
It is taught by the International Development Department (IDD), in conjunction with the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC).

You will study four core modules on:

• International Health Care
• Health Services Management
• Public Management
• Social Analysis of Poverty and Development

You also take two optional modules chosen from a range of alternatives. MSc students are also required to complete a 10,000-word dissertation.

A relevant first degree or equivalent professional qualification.

Make poverty history' has become a familiar slogan in recent years in the global north, whilst for those in the global south it is a challenge with very personal significance.
This programme enables you to explore the issues surrounding poverty and poverty reduction, and to gain or enhance your practical skills in development management.

Topics addressed include:

• Definitions and indicators of poverty and development
• Causes of poverty
• Poverty reduction strategies
• Cross-cutting issues, such as gender and conflict
• Practical policy, programme and research skills

Students on this programme are provided with an allowance to conduct overseas dissertation fieldwork.