International Public Health (Sexual and Reproductive Health) Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Overview

Key facts

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 the strengthening of health systems in support of sexual and reproductive health (including maternal & 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. Following the taught component, participants complete a dissertation including a period of applied research either overseas or in Liverpool.

This International Public Health (Sexual and Reproductive Health) programme from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 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.
• 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

Careers

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.