MPH in International Development (MPHID)

Students are required to take six core modules for the MA (135 credits):

• GEO6801 Ideas and Practice in International Development (15 credits)
  Provides you with a grounding in key debates and concerns in international development, covering development theory, policy and practice.
   
• GEO6803 Professional Skills for Development (15 credits)
  Offers you the opportunity to develop your professional skills, including disaster management and tender writing skills as well as training in writing, publishing, web-design, and language skills.
   
• GEO6804 Development Fieldclass (15 credits)
  A ten-day fieldtrip to a research site in the global south during which you experience first-hand the process of designing and conducting development research.
   
• HAR618 International Health: Systems and Policy (15 credits)
  Provides an inquiry-based approach to explore how health systems and policies are created and implemented in efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals.
   
• HAR675 Key Issues in Global Public Health (15 credits)
  Introduces you to key challenges and concepts in global public health policy and practice including disease, socio-economic factors and the environment.
   
• HAR6030 Introduction to Research Methods (15 credits)
  Provides you with a grounding in qualitative and quantitative research skills, including clinic trial protocols

Students then choose three of the following 15-credit option modules:

• GEO6808 HIV/AIDS
  Explores the background to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and the complicated academic and policy responses to this disease from the micro- to the macro-scale.
    
• GEO6809 Living with Climate Change
  Offers a detailed understanding of our understandings of climate change and the practices adopted at different scales in order to respond to and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
   
• HAR659 Gender Relations, Health and Health Care
  Introduces the ways in which gender remains a key concern to realising good health.
   
• HAR655 Public Health Informatics
  Provides you with an introduction to the application of public health informatics from the local to the international scale.
   
• HAR686 Disaster and Emergency Management
  Offers an introduction to policies and practices of emergency management drawing on real-life experiences and disaster management policies.
   
• HAR685 Communicable Disease Control
  Introduces you to the vectors and causes of communicable disease and the policies and practices used to reduce the threat of pandemics and epidemics.
   
• HAR681 Strengthening Health Systems
  Provides a grounding in issues of health system governance and mechanisms to identify and strengthen health systems in the global south.
   
• HAR6021 Health Promotion
  Explores key public health challenges and the mechanisms through which practices for improved health can be promoted in varying contexts.
   
• HAR619 Epidemiology
  Introduces the key theories and concepts of epidemiology and the methods through which to study this field.
   
• SCS657 Practice and Evaluation in International Development
  Explores how social policy around the world is central to development policy and practice on different scales.
   
• TRP6013 Cities of Diversity
  Introduces the complexities of diversity in urban spatial and social planning as a core concern to sustainability and integration.
   
• TRP6014 Cities of the South: Planning for Informality
  Provides a critical exploration of the development of informal settlements and the key challenges these settlements pose to urban spatial and social planning.
   
• TRP6019 Governance and Participation in the Global South
  Introduces key debates regarding issues of governance and community participation in spatial planning and urban practice.
   
• MLT6015 Enhanced Languages II
  Provides you with the opportunity to develop language skills appropriate to your proficiency in a foreign language.