MSc International Health Technology Assessment by Distance Learning

About the course

You’ll gain an understanding of markets, pricing and customers needed for new product development in the health technology industry. If you’re already working or aspire to work in the field of health technology assessment, this course will give you the training you need to progress your career or gain a post as a health technology evaluator or commissioner.

This course is delivered by Distance Learning. You can study part-time, completely online. You do not need a UK study visa to take this distance learning course.

This course has two possible start dates, so you can choose the start date that suits you best. The first intake starts in September 2014, while the second intake starts in February 2015.

Core modules

• Methods and Processes in International Health Technology Assessment
• International Health Care Systems and Reimbursement
• Cost-effectiveness Modelling in International HTA
• Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis: Principles
• Economic Evaluation in International HTA

Optional modules

• Further Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials
• Using Evidence in the Design and Development of Models
• Pharmaceutical Pricing
• Randomised Controlled Trials to Support Reimbursement Decision Making
• Utility and Patient Report Outcomes Data in HTA
• Building Cost-effectiveness Models for HTA
• Systematic Reviews and Evidence Synthesis
• Introduction to Advanced Analysis Techniques
• Implementation of HTA in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs)

Teaching

• Online learning
• Independent study
• Online discussion forums, Wikis and screen-sharing software to encourage collaboration between students

Assessment

• Coursework
• Project work

Your career

Our courses help you develop the skills and knowledge you need to understand and improve health services. We offer postgraduate programmes for health and social care professionals, managers and those wanting a career in health services research.

Our graduates take up positions in public health, the private sector, health services management, and health and social care. They also go on to further public health training or academic research

About us

We employ around 300 staff and attract £6 million per year in external support. Our staff are active in their research. This means that what we teach you is based on current findings.

We have experts in health economics, public health sciences, the sociology of health, health psychology, decision analysis, management sciences, epidemiology, medical statistics and information science. Our courses attract students from all over the world

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