MSc Global Health and Management

The Global Health and Management programme is a Master's level course offered by the University of Aberdeen. It is designed to encourage students to critically evaluate the process of scaling up global health programmes, develop their research skills, and promote disease control programmes, particularly in less advantaged and resource-poor countries. The course emphasises on important health challenges globally, and provides the students with a broad set of skills necessary to work in a global health context. Course Content: The programme takes an interdisciplinary and systemic approach, combining modules from multiple disciplines including public health, health services research, health economics, health policy and management, epidemiology, and biostatistics. The course offers insights in international health policy and governance, disaster relief, responding to outbreaks of disease, and improving access to healthcare.Key Modules: Key modules include Global Health and Management; Global Health Challenges - An Introduction; Public Health; Research Methods for Health; Systematic Reviewing; Public Health and Health Promotion; Health Economics; Policy and Practice in Health; Qualitative Health Research; Health Informatics; Applied Statistics; and a Dissertation.Future Careers: Graduates of this course would be excellent candidates for careers in various sectors including international health organisations, Ministry of Health in their home country, non-governmental organisations and consulting firms. They can also pursue further academic work such as a PhD.For more information on this course, please visit the official course page here.