Global Public Health and Policy - on-campus track
Global Public Health and Policy - on-campus track
| Schedule | Module overview | How the module is taught and assessed |
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IPH7001 Health Inequalities and Social Determinants of Health | Semester 1 | This module will examine the theories and evidence underpinning social inequalities in health (defined as the unfair and avoidable differences in health status). It will consider structural/material and psychosocial theories, and hypothesis about social drift, self-selection, and genetics. | Weekly seminar over 10 weeks, plus pre-seminar preparation (typically a recorded lecture and self-guided reading)
Assessment: 2000-word written assessment |
IPH7000 Epidemiology and Statistics | Semester 1 | The module will include case studies to explore contemporary policy debates and the influence of quantitative research studies on public health and primary care policy and government intervention programmes. | Weekly seminar over 10 weeks, plus pre-seminar preparation (typically a recorded lecture and self-guided reading)
Assessment: In class test; 2000-word critical appraisal |
IPH7017 Health Systems Policy and Practice | Semester 1 | This module addresses the fundamental public health question of how best to finance and organise health systems in order to achieve universal health coverage and the effective delivery of comprehensive PHC, with particular focus on the ways in which health care systems differ from the perspective of access to services among different social groups within the population. | Weekly seminar over 10 weeks, plus pre-seminar preparation (typically a recorded lecture and self-guided reading)
Assessment: Group presentation; 2000-word essay |
WOFM983 Applied Research Methods 1: Theory | Semester 1 | This module will develop your understanding of the different forms of research that are used to produce evidence in global public health. It will introduce you to different paradigms of research and get you to reflect on how we generate data, how this data is used to generate evidence, to what purposes and how that evidence can be used, and for whose benefit. We will both engage with more theoretical questions around research methods and take a hands-on approach that will develop your understanding of different methods and how to apply them. | Weekly seminar over 10 weeks, plus pre-seminar preparation (typically a recorded lecture and self-guided reading)
Assessment: 1000 word annotated bibliography; 1500-word research proposal
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IPH7026 Medicines and Pharmaceutical Markets | Semester 2 | The module considers drug discovery and the forms and stages of clinical trials, exploring the influence of networks of public-private partnership on drug approvals, and regulation of medicines | Weekly seminar over 10 weeks, plus pre-seminar preparation (typically a recorded lecture and self-guided reading)
Assessment: 3000-word research essay |
IPH7029 A Life-course Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health
| Semester 2 | This module provide students with a knowledge of key topics in SRH through a life-course approach. It will explore SRH throughout an individual¿s lifespan, from childlhood, through adolescence, pregnancy and childbirth until menopause and beyond. | Weekly seminar over 10 weeks, plus pre-seminar preparation (typically a recorded lecture and self-guided reading)
Assessment: 2000-word essay |
IPH7025 Health Economic Analyses | Semester 2 | The module will introduce learners to key microeconomic concepts and principles, their relevance to the health economy and the need for alternative approaches to priority setting and resource allocation. The module will then discuss key health economic analytical frameworks to inform resource allocation in health, exploring methods of economic evaluation, health policy evaluation, economic analysis of public health interventions, and analysis of inequalities in health and health care. | Weekly seminar over 10 weeks, plus pre-seminar preparation (typically a recorded lecture and self-guided reading)
Assessment: 1500-word project report; 2-hour written examination
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IPH7014 Health Systems Theory, Policy and Political Economy | Semester 2 | In this module we examine trends towards the reform of health systems in the context of globalisation. Particular attention is given to the impact of neoliberal policy and commercialisation; the move towards universal health coverage; policy on integration; and decentralisation.
| Weekly seminar over 10 weeks, plus pre-seminar preparation (typically a recorded lecture and self-guided reading)
Assessment: Group presentation; 2000-word essay |
