Improve your knowledge, skills, and practice of primary healthcare, preparing you for more senior roles.
Explore the links between policy, evidence and practice and address key questions in healthcare.
Learn how successful management requires development of critical approaches to theory, practice, and outcome measurement.
Develop knowledge in key competencies necessary to join the UK Voluntary Register for Public Health specialists.
If you work or want to work at an operational, managerial or strategic level in public health, this course is ideal. If you currently work in a public health role you can gain academic credit for work based learning in the Public Health Practice elective.

Rather than a traditional lecture and seminar format, a variety of learning and teaching methods are used with an emphasis on peer learning and class participation. The course is taught by relatively small team and draws on guest speakers from a range of public health roles which may include GPs, Community Health Workers, policy makers and public health practitioners.

You learn through

• seminars
• workshops
• presentations
• oral presentations
• reports
• essays
• book reviews

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

Networking opportunities Beyond the course, you have access to a wide range of developmental and professional events in the department and the wider university as well as volunteering and employment agencies. In addition, you're also supported to find work experience and are well supported by a comprehensive suite of career management services including interview training and networking opportunities.

This course prepares you for a career as a

• teenage pregnancy coordinator
• health promotion specialist
• five-a-day co-ordinator
• health visitor
• public health nurse
• midwife
• nurse consultant
• PhD study

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for

• Agewell
• Sure Start

Normally a degree or other qualification at an equivalent level plus experience in the field of public health or research. We are keen to encourage applicants from a variety of backgrounds.

You may also be able to claim credit points which can reduce the amount of time it takes to complete your qualification at Sheffield Hallam. Find out more

If English is not your first language you typically need an IELTS 6.5 score with a minimum of 6.0 in writing and 5.5 in all other skill areas or equivalent. If your English language skill is currently below IELTS 6.5 we recommend you consider a Sheffield Hallam University Pre-sessional English course which will enable you to achieve an equivalent English score.

mportant notice:

The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page.

Modules studied may differ depending on when you start your course.

Year 1 Compulsory modules
Module	Credits	Assessment
Foundations Of Epidemiology A	15	Coursework
Foundations Of Epidemiology B	15	Coursework
Health, Culture And Public Health Development Work	15	Coursework Practical
Health Promotion Principles, Policy And Practice	15	Practical
Inequality, Health And Poverty	15	Coursework
Infectious Disease And Long Term Conditions	15	Coursework
Public Health Evidence: Synthesis And Analysis	15	Coursework

 

 

Elective modules
Module	Credits	Assessment
Public Health Nutrition	15	Coursework
Public Health Practice	15	Coursework
Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights	15	Practical
Understanding Behaviour	15	Coursework

 

Final Year Compulsory modules
Module	Credits	Assessment
Dissertation (Public Health)	60	Coursework