(Award available for year: Postgraduate Certificate)
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
1. Identify and evaluate global challenges for health service delivery including socially responsible behaviour to tackle health inequities and promote healthy public policy.
2. Analyse trends and challenges in global health using a multi-disciplinary approach including; political, economic, epidemiological, environmental, social, anthropological, provider and user perspectives to inform global health policy.
3. Critically evaluate the role that current food production systems, environmental degradation and climate change play in the emergence and aggravation of infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics.
Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Apply critical-thinking, systems thinking and problem-solving skills necessary to engage in the process of global health diplomacy and policy making.
2. Collect and analyse data relevant to enhance global health and assess appropriate reporting mechanisms to support decision making.
3. Communicate complex ideas and arguments accurately, effectively, and persuasively to a variety of stakeholders using appropriate communication methods.
4. Demonstrate public health-related capabilities for employment in industry or area of professional practice, and ensuring continuous professional development and adaptation to evolving learning needs.
5. Use digital skills in a variety of contexts to discover and retrieve information, to produce documents, and to communicate and present findings to others.
Competence Standards
1. Apply key analytical frameworks and concepts to explain global health challenges, identifying responses to address these challenges, while recognising the importance of a people-centred approach.
2. Use diplomacy and judgement to make evidence-based decisions in complex health situations.
3. Effectively communicate key ideas, concepts and policies related to global health, for example verbally and in written form, to a variety of audiences.
4. Appraise information from a range of sources in global health contexts, using various tools.
5. Reflect on personal and professional practices to continuously improve skills.
6. Construct effective arguments on global health policy.
In the MSc/PGDip/PGCert Global Health programme, students will be required to carry out a variety of formative and summative assessments designed to develop key skills in communication, academic practices and critical thinking. Each module includes formative assessment and feedback to guide learning and help students prepare for summative assessments. Formative assessments align with the module's learning objectives and skill outcomes. Formative assessment may include; MCQs, quiz, essay plans or research ethics.
Summative assessments are designed to assess students' learning of complex global health topics. Each module will have one summative assessment and will cover the learning objectives as well as the skills outcomes of the module. These assessments may include; short answer questions, essays, journal articles, posters, research proposals, reports and individual presentations (pre-recorded). It is proposed that the core types of assessment and skills required are used in carousel one to support student to develop the skills they will need across the programme.
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