Description
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at The University of Manchester, UK, is proud to offer an affordable professional online programme in Global Health, in partnership with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
Accredited by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), our online courses have been developed for people working in the humanitarian sector or for those wishing to enter this field. They enable students to obtain the highest quality postgraduate education whilst maintaining full time employment anywhere in the world.
Delivered by the HCRI as a part time, online course (distance learning).
Course structure
The MSc is a 3-year part-time, online distance learning course (180 credits).
The programme structure is as follows:
- Year 1 (PG Cert, 60 credits)
The PG Cert curriculum will comprise 4 x 15 credit modules as detailed below.
- Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience This module will offer an introduction to public and global health, risk assessments and management, emergency humanitarian assistance, epidemiology, population ageing, the determinants of child survival, and pandemics.
- Health Systems and Markets This module will look at the social determinants of health, the work of civil society organisations, the interfaces between states and economies, organisational change, health financing, urban health, rural access, food security, agriculture, and eradication programming.
- Community Approaches to Health This module will examine issues of psycho-social care, behaviour change, aging, micro-insurance, advocacy, holistic health, HIV, nutrition, breast feeding, hygiene promotion and immunisation.
- Ethics, Human Rights and Health This module will consider the role of gender, health inequalities, dignity, legal frameworks, rights based approaches to health, reproductive rights, Millennium development goals 4, 5, and 6, child rights, and accessing illegal drug users and commercial sex workers.
Course units may vary from year to year.
- Year 2 (PG Dip, 60 credits)
The PG Dip curriculum comprises an orientation to learning followed by 4 x 15 credit modules as detailed below:
- Disaster & Crisis Management
- Management and Leadership in Health and
- Humanitarianism
- Diseases & Trauma in Developing Countries: understanding an ongoing global burden of disease
- Research Methods in Global Health
Course units may vary from year to year.
- Year 3 (MSc dissertation, 60 credits) = Dissertation.
All students will be allocated a dissertation supervisor who will support them throughout the year. Formal dissertation supervision sessions will be arranged which may be conducted via videoconference, telephone, or by email depending upon the personal preference and the facilities available to each student.
All assessment will take place online. Students will submit their dissertations at the end of the 12 month MSc Dissertation programme. These will be assessed and students will be informed of the outcome thereafter.
Course aims
- To provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate their capacity for self-managed learning through planning and conducting a programme of research on a topic related to their programme of studies;
- To further develop students’ knowledge of a relevant body of literature, their understanding of relevant theoretical perspectives and their powers of critical reasoning;
- To allow students to seek new research findings which, in some cases, add to the existing body of knowledge on a particular subject area;
- To engage in a limited programme of primary data collection or to reinterpret material already available in the public domain;
- To fully develop students’ knowledge of, and competence in, an appropriate range of research methods, including the development of a study hypothesis, an appreciation of the research methodology and analytical techniques to be utilised, the undertaking of a specific research study, the synthesis and evaluation of findings, and a clear statement of conclusions and recommendations;
- To develop students’ writing, presentation and bibliographic skills, which involves skills in the planning and management of a long document;
- To develop students’ experience of developing and managing a specific programme of work.
Application procedure
To apply for the MSc in Global Health applicants must apply for the Postgraduate Certificate in Global Health (PG Cert). Full details on how to apply can be found here.
Scholarship
We offer a number of scholarships and bursaries, full details of which (including deadlines) can be found here.