Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year full-time
This course is ideal for those who aspire to be leaders in their healthcare organisations. You’ll study health needs and inequalities, and you’ll explore the principles of management and organisation theory in terms of public health and health policy and systems.
This course provides a combination of public health knowledge and management science.
On the course, you’ll study health needs and inequalities and be introduced to gathering and appraising evidence through research and needs assessment, as well as economic evaluation and healthcare financing. You’ll explore the principles of management and organisation theory and specific challenges relating to public health, as well as health policy and health systems.
We combine public health, management, health services research and health economics, which is not available on an MBA or a pure MPH or MSc programme.
2:1 honours degree, or a medical degree or significant experience in public health.
For fees please see our website.
We have a number of funding options including scholarships. Please visit https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/funding
The relevance of management and governance in international public health has been recognised as one of the greatest challenges facing governments in developing and newly-democratised nations.
In developed countries, the challenges of running large health and social care services requires an understanding of both public sector policy and strategic management, a combination that cannot be obtained from a business degree such as an MBA.
The MPH in Management and Leadership has been designed to provide its graduates with all the skills and knowledge they require to take up employment in the following sectors:
The course is also suited to those wishing to undertake a research degree or to take up a post in an academic setting.
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