International Public Health (Planning & Management) 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 theories and methods of improving and managing health systems and human resources. It aims to provide students with the knowledge, skills and understanding needed to enable them to take a leadership role in enhancing the effectiveness of health care organisations using quality and human resource management initiatives. Following the taught component, participants complete a dissertation including a period of applied research either overseas or in Liverpool.

This International Public Health (Planning & Management) 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.
• Produce graduates who are experienced, committed, informed, proactive and effective professionals, capable of taking substantial and leading professional roles in order to promote improved health and well-being in middle and low income countries
• 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 career opportunities within the field of Public Health throughout the world. Public Health, and in particular Planning and Management, can be seen by the huge deployment of staff and other resources from NGOs, UN Agencies, WHO and Military during the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, H5N1 Avian Influenza, Zika Virus, and MERS, as well as through the response planning to natural disasters such as earthquakes and Tsunamis. 

People with public health, planning and management skills are highly sought after. Past alumni of this course typically gain employment with health ministries, health departments, national or international disease control agencies, UN Agencies, aid organisations, health services research, or universities.