利物浦熱帶醫(yī)學(xué)院

Programme Outline

This programme equips graduates to provide leadership and technical support in public health in middle-income and low-income countries.

It covers a wide range of topics in public and global health, including key disciplinary skills in epidemiology and social science, and applied topics such as disease control and programme management.

The programme has a specialist focus on:

strengthening of health systems in support of SRH (including maternal and neonatal health);
facilitating the implementation and scale-up of good practice; and
raising awareness amongst politicians, professionals and the public of the need for more effective use of knowledge and tools to impact on SRH indicators.

After the taught component, participants complete a dissertation – including a period of applied research, either overseas or in Liverpool. The programme is offered within a dynamic research-led environment and its content is informed by the cutting-edge research activities of the academic staff.

This course aims to:

• Provide a critical understanding of a range of health policies and strategies in a variety of social, epidemiological, cultural, economic and political settings in middle- and low- income countries
• Enable students to analyse critically, evaluate and conduct responsive, public health-related research and apply evidence to everyday practice.
• Produce graduates who are experienced, committed, informed, proactive and effective professionals, capable of taking substantial and leading professional roles in order to promote improved health and well-being in middle and low income countries
• Facilitate high quality learning that is informed by critical analysis of current research
• Develop independent and reflective approaches to study that will enable graduates to continue to learn in the future

Career

There are many employment opportunities within the Sexual & Reproductive Health field with small and large NGOs, UN organisations, as well as reproductive health community programmes and family planning, working towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There are also many research opportunities within this field. Useful for programme managers, nurses, midwives, and doctors who are working in the field of sexual and reproductive health. This course is also suitable for public health practitioners and for people who need to work with needs assessments and monitoring & evaluation frameworks.