The MSc aims to enable participants to critically reflect on Sexual and reproductive health issues as well as gain skills necessary for the management of programmes. The course examines key areas relating to policy, research and management as well as some of the important socio-cultural variables influencing reproductive health.

Semester 1 - Core Modules:
Introduction to Social Development & International Health
Health Related Research
Health Systems Development and Management

Semester2 - Core Modules:
Gender, Health and Development
Research Design and Planning
Population and Reproductive health

Elective Modules: (select 1 from the following)
HIV and Development
Independent Study
Policy and Practice in Complex Emergencies
Interventions with War-affected Populations
Participatory Appraisal and Evaluation

Semester 3 - Core Modules: Dissertation (3.5 months)

Health professionals or managers in health sector organisations with at least 5 years work experience, and who expect to have responsibilities for the health workforce.

First degree or professional qualification plus relevant work experience

This programme focuses on key issues influencing current development policy and practice, including inter-sectoral links, governance and poverty reduction, participation and empowerment, gender analysis, sustainable livelihoods, and the role and development of civil society. The purpose is to examine the approaches taken to poverty reduction through social development and the enhancement of health and the provision of health care. The programme is relevant to a wide variety of professions working within healthcare, education and community development. It includes a blend of skill-based approaches with critical and evaluative analysis utilising a range of group and individual teaching formats.

Semester 1 - Core Modules:
Introduction to Social Development & International Health
Social Development Policy and Practice
Health Related Research

Semester2 - Core Modules:
Research Design and Planning
Gender, Health and Development

Elective Modules: (select 2 from the following)
Project Design and Management
HIV and Development
Independent Study
Population and Reproductive health
Policy and Practice in Complex Emergencies
Psychosocial Interventions with War-affected Populations
Participatory Appraisal and Evaluation

Semester 3 - Core Modules: Dissertation (3.5 months)

no deadline

Health professionals or managers in health sector organisations with at least 5 years work experience, and who expect to have responsibilities for the health workforce.

Ms Kyoko Jardine
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International health is a multidisciplinary field of study that takes a multi-nation perspective on the state of people’s health, enhances knowledge and implementation of effective intervention strategies through a systematic examination of health problems, their determinants, and their solutions around the world (Aboud 1998 p281).
This Institute for International Health and Development acknowledges the global right of individuals and communities to essential health care that is practical, scientifically sound and socially acceptable. The Institute also recognises that health and development are inextricably linked. Thus, health is influenced by a wide range of social, political, economic and biological variables. The development of health is a social process and interventions within the health sector alone will not necessarily result in the improvement of the health of a population. The promotion of health requires international, national, regional and local policy approaches across a range of sectors as well as environmental changes and community and individual approaches. The teaching team also recognise that development projects themselves can inadvertently impact negatively on health.

Semester 1: Induction (3 days)
Core Modules:
Introduction to Social Development & International Health - 30 credits/10 ECTS (6 weeks)
Health Related Research -15 credits/5 ECTS(6 weeks)
Health Systems Development and Management - 15 credits/5 ECTS(6 weeks)
Reading week (1 week) - usually around October
Semester 2: Induction – January starts (3 days)
Core Modules
Research Design and Planning - 15 credits/5 ECTS (5 weeks)
Elective Modules: (Choose 3 from the following)
Project Design and Management – 15 credits/5 ECTS (5 weeks)
Gender, Health and Development - 15 credits/5 ECTS (5 weeks)
HIV and Development 15 credits/5 ECTS (1 week Lectures with 4 weeks web based)
Independent Study 15 credits/5 ECTS (over 3 months)
Population and Reproductive health - 15 credits/5 ECTS (5 weeks)
Policy and Practice in Complex Emergencies - 15 credits/ 5 ECTS(5 weeks) Psychosocial Interventions with War-affected Populations - 15 credits/5 ECTS(5 weeks)
Participatory Appraisal and Evaluation - 15 credits/5 ECTS (5 weeks)
Semester 3: Dissertation 60 credits/'20 ECTS (3.5 months)
Successful completion of the dissertation will, therefore, accumulate a further 60 credit points giving the total of 180 M points required for the award of the Masters Degree.

no deadline

Health professionals or managers in health sector organisations with at least 5 years work experience, and who expect to have responsibilities for the health workforce.

Ms Kyoko Jardine
Tel: +44 (0)131 474 00 00
Fax: +44 (0)131 474 00 01
E-mail: int-health@qmu.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/iihd/Postgraduate_study/MSc_International_Health.htm

This progamme will focus on the key components of effective health systems as they impact on the operations of different health systems.
Core Modules:

• Health Systems Development
• Health Economics
• International Health and Social Policy
• Health Related Research
• Research Design and Planning

no deadline

Health professionals or managers in health sector organisations with at least 5 years work experience, and who expect to have responsibilities for the health workforce.

Home/EU £6,350 full time ; part time £640 per 15 credit module plus dissertation fee. International students full time £12,600; part time £1155 per 15 credit module plus dissertation fee.

Bursaries available see website: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/research_knowledge/bursarycomp09.htm
Further information: www.csfp-online.org

Ms Kyoko Jardine
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Fax: +44 (0)131 474 00 01
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The Programme is designed for experienced graduates or health professionals keen to gain an understanding of how to mobilise scarce human resources to strengthen health systems internationally. The programme aims to equip participants with the necessary skills to achieve optimally sustainable deployment of personnel and ensure that users of health services are served by the most highly skilled and efficient workforce possible. A wide range of modern tools and approaches is used. Content includes health system development; health financing; research methods; human resource policy & strategy; workforce planning methods; workforce management techniques; HR development; leadership and change management.

no deadline

Health professionals or managers in health sector organisations with at least 5 years work experience, and who expect to have responsibilities for the health workforce.

Home/EU £6,350 full time ; part time £640 per 15 credit module plus dissertation fee. International students full time £12,600; part time £1155 per 15 credit module plus dissertation fee.

Bursaries available see website: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/research_knowledge/bursarycomp09.htm
Further information: www.csfp-online.org

Ms Kyoko Jardine
Tel: +44 (0)131 474 00 00
Fax: +44 (0)131 474 00 01
E-mail: int-health@qmuc.ac.uk
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This award is a focused programme of study with the following learning outcomes:
1. Critically analyse and respond effectively and appropriately to complex policy and practice issues in diverse settings affected by conflict or emerging from conflict.
2. Critically examine the concepts of vulnerability and resilience of individuals, households and their interaction with health and social structures in the context of forced migration in conflict and post-conflict settings
3. Conceptualise, critique and defend alternative approaches to psychosocial protection of individuals and communities
4. Integrate diverse perspectives on the impact of conflict to formulate effective and appropriate programmatic response to identified needs

The Postgraduate Certificate in Conflict, Social Development & Health will be awarded on successful completion of the following modules (see short coures):

• Policy & Practice in Complex Emergencies
• Psychosocial Interventions with War-Affected Populations
• Project Design and Management (developing a project proposal relevant to a conflict/post-conflict setting)

And one module from:

• Gender, Health & Development
• HIV & Development
• Independent Study (focusing on a topic relevant to a conflict/post conflict setting)

Ms Kyoko Jardine
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Fax: +44 (0)131 474 00 01
E-mail: int-health@qmu.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/iihd/full_time_courses.htm#ASD

This course critically examines population theories and in the light of subsequent development policy development and practice, analyses the reproductive heath approach advocated at the influential International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994.

Potential participants should note that this is not a clinical course. Course participants explore the socio-economic, political and organizational dimensions of reproductive health. Content includes:

* Population theory and basic demographics
* Sexuality, conferences and contestation
* Fertility, female autonomy and education
* Life cycle approaches to sexual and reproductive health
* Adolescent sexual and reproductive health
* Maternal health
* Implementing sexual and reproductive health in diverse contexts
* Men as partners
* Current debates in population and reproductive health
* Macro and micro economics of reproductive health programmes.

The course includes a visit to a local health facility offering specialist services to adolescents. Other specialist visits may be arranged as required. The assessment is an individual 3,000 word paper on a topic selected from a choice of subjects that reflects current issues in the sector

Ms Kyoko Jardine
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Fax: +44 (0)131 474 00 01
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Ms Kyoko Jardine
Tel: +44 (0)131 474 00 00
Fax: +44 (0)131 474 00 01
E-mail: int-health@qmu.ac.uk
Internet: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/iihd/short_courses.htm#PAH

The role of gender in health and development is now widely acknowledged in the field of international health. Donors, governments and non-governmental organisations have all adopted gender policies and use gender planning techniques in planning health interventions in the developing world.

This short course aims to provide participants with the knowledge to critique gender approaches to health and development and the skills to be able to plan programmes which are gender sensitive in their design.

Although the focus is largely on women, the construction of male gender and its implications for health and development are also examined. Participatory approaches for collecting and analysing data on gender are described, ensuring participants are able to combine qualitative with quantitative data as a baseline for planning interventions.

January 2012

Ms Kyoko Jardine
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Much of the literature on HIV has described the devastating impact that the resulting stigma, ill health and death has on individuals, households, and communities, particularly in resource poor settings. High rates of HIV are undermining livelihoods and increasing vulnerability. Although antiretroviral treatment is now rolling out in many resource poor settings, it is not reaching enough people and there are still problems regarding access and cost.

In this module we will examine the interaction between HIV and Development, focussing on the importance of mainstreaming HIV in development initiatives in resource poor settings, and integrating structural development initiatives into HIV prevention, care and mitigation.

The short course/module aims to equip participants with the tools to examine some of the social issues linked to HIV, in particular the opportunity to examine different approaches to working with HIV and development, how mainstreaming of HIV is being implemented, social constructs of identity and sexuality which affect the response to HIV, gender analysis, food security, the impact of HIV on sustainable livelihoods, effectiveness of community mobilisation and issues related to treatment in resource poor settings.

Ms Kyoko Jardine
Tel: +44 (0)131 474 00 00
Fax: +44 (0)131 474 00 01
E-mail: int-health@qmu.ac.uk
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In the context of sector wide approaches and budgetary support as increasingly common ways of providing development assistance, the notion of projects is disputed. The philosophy of projects is therefore an important component of this course. Whatever the mechanism for development assistance, the logical framework which summarises the goal, purpose, outputs, activities, costs and implementation arrangements of a proposed intervention continues to be a common feature of documentation required by many donors. The ‘logframe’ is also a useful tool for review and management of existing programmes. This short course is therefore aimed at people working for non-governmental or governmental organisations who are involved in the design and management of health and social development projects. The course develops capacities that are of relevance in preparing proposals for funders; in managing projects and more broadly in fostering a structured and team approach to service planning and evaluation.

Ms Kyoko Jardine
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Fax: +44 (0)131 474 00 01
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Using resource materials from a wide range of sources, including web-based materials, this course focuses on current debates in the field of psychosocial work such as the socio-cultural context of conflict, local approaches to healing and distress, gender and different approaches to working with children. The psychosocial dimensions of HIV/AIDS in situations of conflict and displacement will also be examined. The course provides participants with information about relevant theories and conceptual frameworks as well as with actual examples of psychosocial programmes with the aim to help participants develop a critical perspective on different approaches to working in the field. Participants will be given the opportunity to apply the skills they develop during the module to develop their own intervention for a displaced population in a chosen setting.

Ms Kyoko Jardine
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This course aims to provide participants with an overview of the current challenges and policy debates in responding to populations affected by instablity and conflict. Accepted theory and practice will be examined, alternative approaches and frameworks explored and foundations for good practice identified. The course awill address a range of inter-related issues, for example, the importance of global political economy and how development policies have contributed to instability. In particular, the roles of key actors and institutions involved in the international humanitarian system will be analysed. Concepts of vulnerability and the resiliance of individuals and communities and their interaction with health systems in the context of forced migration in conflict and post-conflict settings will also be examined. Finally, different approaches to assessing the needs of displaced populations and establishing appropriate interventionswill be investigated and good practices identified.

January 2012

Ms Kyoko Jardine
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The module seeks to establish critical competences for the advocacy, conceptualisation, appraisal, planning, implementation and evaluation of psychosocial programmes for war-affected populations, displaced persons and refugees.
On successful completion of the module the student will be able to:

• Identify and conceptualise the nature of the threat to personal and social well-being posed by conflict and forced migration
• Analyse and conceptualize psychosocial needs - and interventions - with respect to relevant psychiatric, psychological, social and cultural frameworks and synthesize relevant insights
• Critique the roles of culture and identity in shaping the experience of conflict and forced migration
• Critically appraise a variety of examples of psychosocial intervention with war-affected and forced migrant populations
• Effectively and coherently plan a psychosocial intervention sensitive to local circumstances
• Demonstrate critical awareness of relevant criteria and strategies for the effective evaluation of psychosocial programmes

The content of the module will include:
- the impact of war and forced-migration
- socio-political dimensions of conflict & the effects on psychosocial well-being
- trauma discourse and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- alternative approaches to the conceptualization of psychosocial needs;
- cultural dimensions of social suffering;
- psychosocial intervention with children & rights perspectives in work with children;
- gender and vulnerability;
- HIV/Aids & psychosocial well-being in situations of conflict
- practice guidelines in psychosocial intervention;
- programme monitoring and evaluation.

Ms Kyoko Jardine
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Fax: +44 (0)131 474 00 01
E-mail: int-health@qmu.ac.uk
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Course I: Economic evaluation of health care (non credit bearing)
Aims of the course:
* recognise when to use diff erent types of economic evaluation
* appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of diff erent types of economic evaluation
* understand the techniques used to measure and value costs and benefits
* identify the policy implications of economic evaluations
* understand published economic evaluations
* clarify the strengths and limitations of economic evaluation as a tool for decision making

Course II: Economics of Health Systems (non credit bearing)
Aims of the course:
* understand the main types of health care system found around the world
* appreciate the advantages and disadvantages of diff erent systems for efficiency and equity
* understand the arguments for and against tax fi nanced health care, user charges and health insurance
* engage in debates about health service reform

Course III: Supervised Research Project (non credit bearing)
Aims of the course:
* ackle a specific problem relevant to current workplace or future career
* review the research base relevant to that problem
* identify the best available sources of data to address the problem, either those from the specific context in question, or from comparator contexts
* analyse data and select the appropriate formats in which to present results
* reach an evidence based conclusion as to the best way forward - policy options or practical steps to resolve the problem.

Health planners without previous health economics training

Early registration (when booked by 31st March):
One course: £1100
Two courses: £1900
Three courses: £2600
Public/not-for-profi t/academic sectors: One ocurse: £1300; Two coures: £2300; Three courses: £3200
Private sector: One course: £1950; Two courses: £3450; Tree courses: £480

Bursaries available see website: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/research_knowledge/bursarycomp09.htm

Ms Kyoko Jardine
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The Summer School provides an opportunity both to explore new concepts and reflect
on existing practices which delegates can expect to fi nd stimulating and challenging
and providing a fresh impetus for assessing development initiatives.

The themes of the Summer School will include:
• Making HRH development initiatives viable
• Linking workforce development to the HRH Action Framework
• Implementing HR strategic plans
• Modernising staffi ng standards
• Staff retention, recruitment and the global workforce
• Developing workforce skills and capacity
• Enhancing individual and organisational performance
• Making and sustaining change

Among the outcomes within the objective of this Summer School is the creation of an international network to sustain the impetus in identifying mechanisms for improving viability of new project initiatives.

1 August 2010

THE Summer School is intended for Leaders, Practitioners and Advisers in Human Resources for Health who wish to gain and share a better understanding of how to translate development initiatives into sustained growth in individual and organisational capacity. It provides delegates and expert participants with an opportunity to explore a more rigorous approach to achieving a sustainable and more effective mobilisation of the workforce.

£1450 - £1750

Bursaries available see website: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/research_knowledge/bursarycomp09.htm

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This module prepares participants to advance their skills in preparing workforce plans either at a national, regional or organizational level. Participants will become familiar and competent with the various planning tools and models available to workforce planners, and be able to prepare high quality workforce plans that are relevant and accurate for modernizing or reforming health systems. The module is practically focused and time will be spent using both manual and computer-based planning tools such as WISN, BirthRate+, the WHO model and others.

These short courses are open to experienced health professionals and health planners who want to acquire the necessary insights and skills to use the new tools and techniques needed for modernising the health workforce in developing and transitional economies around the world. They are designed as professional development courses and assume no prior knowledge of human resource management.

Participants enrolling for short courses are expected to be reasonably fluent in English and have sufficient relevant work experience to be able to engage with the topics under discussion. Normally we would expect at least five years work experience in the health or social care system. No other formal pre-requisites are needed to join the short course.

£1,155 (overseas participants) or £640 (EU participants)

Bursaries available see website: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/research_knowledge/bursarycomp09.htm

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This module is a highly practical one, looking at core personnel management functions such as recruitment, selection, job design and work environments, staff appraisal, staff development and training. Participants will together explore relevant theory and good practice, and will learn how to effectively recruit, retain and develop employee capacity in small and large healthcare organisations. Participants will also explore how to effectively manage employee relations in a rapidly changing labour market.

These short courses are open to experienced health professionals and health planners who want to acquire the necessary insights and skills to use the new tools and techniques needed for modernising the health workforce in developing and transitional economies around the world. They are designed as professional development courses and assume no prior knowledge of human resource management.

Participants enrolling for short courses are expected to be reasonably fluent in English and have sufficient relevant work experience to be able to engage with the topics under discussion. Normally we would expect at least five years work experience in the health or social care system. No other formal pre-requisites are needed to join the short course.

£1,155 (overseas participants) or £640 (EU participants)

Bursaries available see website: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/research_knowledge/bursarycomp09.htm

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Leaders and managers in healthcare organisations continue to experience real problems in designing and implementing change successfully. Staff are often confronted with proposals to restructure their organisations, or introduce a new method of managing their work. In a changing environment, there can be no template or blueprint that guarantees success, so in this module participants will together explore the concept and nature of change and then examine how to strengthen the leadership functions of management in different organizational environments to achieve desired change.

These short courses are open to experienced health professionals and health planners who want to acquire the necessary insights and skills to use the new tools and techniques needed for modernising the health workforce in developing and transitional economies around the world. They are designed as professional development courses and assume no prior knowledge of human resource management.

Participants enrolling for short courses are expected to be reasonably fluent in English and have sufficient relevant work experience to be able to engage with the topics under discussion. Normally we would expect at least five years work experience in the health or social care system. No other formal pre-requisites are needed to join the short course.

£1,155 (overseas participants) or £640 (EU participants)

Bursaries available see website: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/research_knowledge/bursarycomp09.htm

E-mail: iihd@qmu.ac.uk
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Strategic HRM is key to the success and sustainability of health systems. In this module, participants will engage with global, national and local issues relating to how to get the right staff in the right place at the right time and with the right skills. Strategic thinking and strategic solutions are needed and by accessing global databases, most current policies and strategies, and new analytical and decision support methods, participants will be able to identify key strategic issues and offer evidence-based solutions to critical workforce issues in modern healthcare, including migration, changing demographics and professional development requirements using the global HRH Action Framework.

These short courses are open to experienced health professionals and health planners who want to acquire the necessary insights and skills to use the new tools and techniques needed for modernising the health workforce in developing and transitional economies around the world. They are designed as professional development courses and assume no prior knowledge of human resource management.

17 - 28 October 2011

Participants enrolling for short courses are expected to be reasonably fluent in English and have sufficient relevant work experience to be able to engage with the topics under discussion. Normally we would expect at least five years work experience in the health or social care system. No other formal pre-requisites are needed to join the short course.

Bursaries available see website: http://www.qmu.ac.uk/research_knowledge/bursarycomp09.htm

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