The programme will engage you in new ways of thinking to improve community level services for children and to critically analyse existing theory, policy and practice in international child health. It will provide you with essential training in research and management approaches in this field and promote personal reflection and growth among those of you who are already working in this arena. Our graduates include students from over 70 countries worldwide who come from a variety of professional backgrounds including paediatrics, nursing, midwifery, community health, health management, policy and the NGO sector. This gives students the
opportunity to learn from each others’ skills, experiences and perspectives.

Aims: Our programme aims to help you:
• identify and analyse the principles underlying policy and planning in the field of international maternal and child health
• develop professional and academic skills in research and management
• plan and evaluate sexual and reproductive health policy and practice
• apply a gender perspective in relation to sexual and reproductive health
• understand how to apply evidence-based approaches to policy and practice.

Core Moduls:
* Concepts and controversies in global health
* Research methods and evidence for global health
* Essentials of international child health
* Maternal and reproductive health

International Students: MSc £12,770, Postgraduate Diploma £10,650, Postgraduate Certificate £4,625
Home/EU students:, MSc £4,865 , Postgraduate Diploma £3,280, Postgraduate Certificate £1,705

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The European MSc in International Health is a prestigious one year full-time degree taught in English and is jointly provided by eight participating TropEd institutions in Europe. The programme aims to raise awareness of current global health concerns. Students become qualified to identify and critically analyse key factors shaping health and wellbeing of populations in low- and middle-income countries and to formulate effective and appropriate
responses to complex health-related issues. A range of study tracks with different specialisations are available.

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Learning at London’s global university: Our MSc in Global Health & Development gets bigger and better. Now drawing on UCL’s research and teaching excellence from across the university’s departments, our MSc in Global Health & Development aims to transform your ideas about global health and to expose you to a wide range of relevant perspectives and debates about the world today. UCL, London’s research and teaching powerhouse, is ranked in the top ten universities worldwide (THES–QS 2007) and in the top three multifaculty universities in the UK. Our MSc in Global Health & Development draws on UCL’s cross-disciplinary strengths, under the umbrellas of our UCL Institute for Global Health and our UCL Grand Challenges.

A new approach: In rich and poor countries alike, the gross inequalities in people’s health are not simply a product of their individual choices. They are determined by people’s place in society and the environment in which they find themselves. Today’s global health challenges require a coordinated response from all parts of society and all academic disciplines. They demand a new approach in research and teaching, which explores health within its broader development context.

Our MSc in Global Health & Development addresses issues that are both important for today’s developing countries and common to the whole world. Climate change, economic crisis and poor governance, for example, have profound health effects. Policymakers, health professionals and others concerned with global health need the intellectual tools to understand them.

Our MSc in Global Health & Development will challenge you to understand the complex forces that shape health worldwide, from the household to the global level, with the opportunity to craft a programme of study well-suited to your needs. It will enable you to become a better global health practitioner wherever you work in the world.

Ms Lorraine Dardis
E-mail: l.dardis@ich.ucl.ac.uk
Course Director - Dr Therese Hesketh
Tel: +44 (0)20 7905 2253
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Children in difficult circumstances include street children, children exploited through labour, children exposed to violence and sexual abuse, disabled children, orphans and children with HIV. This module introduces the problems facing these children both in the UK and around the world. It examines the underlying causes and explores some of the potential solutions.

Objectives: By the end of the module students should be able to:
- Critique different theories of the social construct of childhood
- Differentiate the range of situations which are recognised as difficult circumstances for children in different parts of the world
- Examine the immediate and root causes of the situations of children in difficult - Evaluate the risks that children in difficult circumstances encounter and the implications for their physical and psychosocial health and development
- Examine the role of the state, the international community and NGOs in helping children in difficult circumstances.
- Define the principles for effective interventions at different levels.
- Argue the importance of the role children themselves have to play in finding solutions to their problems.
- Be in a position to argue cogently for change in policy and practice that will improve the lives of children in difficult circumstances.

This module aims to ensure that students can think critically about all aspects of designing and applying a quantitative survey. At the end of the module students should be able to: i) Appraise and critically analyze sampling strategies in complex and varied research contexts. This will include innovative methods such as respondent driven sampling, ii) Evaluate and select between different methods of administering a survey in relation to the objectives of the research and logistical practicalities. iii) Critically discuss effective principles and approaches to measuring morbidity and mortality such as biomarkers and health screeing. iv) Develop a comprehensive and appropriate data collection strategy in relation to a given scenario. v) Design a robust and coherent quantitative questionnaire in such a way as to maximize the quality of the data. vi) Enter, clean, manipulate and analyze data in SPSS and draw valid conclusions from the results. vii) Prepare data for effective presentation and dissemination to different audiences.

Health professionals and managers working in the area of development, disability and international child health

This module provides students with an overview and examination of the public health importance of nutrition, the main determinants of malnutrition, methods of nutritional assessment, and policy and approaches to nutritional intervention in both developmental and emergency contexts. Measurement of haemoglobin is demonstrated.

Health professionals and managers working in the area of development, disability and international child health

This module tackles some of the hot policy issues in global health and development today, applying tools from the social sciences to analyse them. You will examine a number of topics, including aid for international health, the commercialisation of healthcare, health-worker migration, access to medicines and the relationship between economic change and health outcomes. The module will also analyse shifting priorities in global-health policy and the actors and events that drive these changes

Enables participants to enhance the quality and credibility of qualitative studies. Provides the opportunity to gain skills and experience in valuing and using qualitative methods for investigating community health problems and undertaking actions to address the problems. Examines qualitative research concepts and tools including interviews, observations and focus groups.

Objectives:
At the end of the module students will be able to:

• design qualitative studies by developing qualitative research questions and qualitative research protocols.
• collect qualitative data using interviews and focus groups discussions
• evaluate innovative qualitative data collection methods including the use of visualisations and participatory learning and action (PLA) processes;
• Assess research design and approach according to action research criteria.

Health professionals and managers working in the area of development, disability and international child health

This module addresses current important issues in perinatal and newborn care. Issues covered include links between newborn and child survival, perinatal asphyxia, low birth weight and parent to child transmission of HIV.

At the end of the module the students will

• understand strategies to reduce perinatal mortality in developing countries
• have developed critical skills in assessing research literature about perinatal health and care
• improved their oral presentation skills
• have developed skills in the audit and evaluation of mother and newborn health programmes

Content: The module covers the following topics:

• Definitions in perinatal health
• Measuring maternal and perinatal mortality
• Perinatal audit
• State of the world’s newborn
• Perinatal asphyxia and neurodevelopment sequelae
• Warmth, kangaroo care and bonding
• Neonatal sepsis and perinatal hygiene
• Low birth weight & IUGR
• Appropriate perinatal technology (with visit to UCH Neonatal Unit)
• Models of community perinatal care
• Perinatal anthropology
• Breastfeeding
• Mother to child transmission of HIV
• Managing a low cost SCBU and common neonatal problems
• For Trop Ed students there will also be six additional sessions on critical paper analysis

Sex and gender are key determinants of health and wellbeing. While the implications of biological sex have long been recognised, the role of gender is only now being fully investigated. This unit critically reviews the content of these debates through examining the impact of gender on the health of both women and men in a range of different settings. The policy implications of this review are then explored in the broader context of economic and social development. Issues covered include: up-to-the minute debates about sex, gender and the politics of feminism; determinants of gender-related health outcomes worldwide; sexual health and family planning; gender and violence; HIV/AIDS and sexuality; and the care economy.

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