STUDY
Institution code: | S82 |
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UCAS code: | N/A |
Start date: | January 2025 |
Duration: | One year full-time, two years part-time |
Location: | Ipswich |
Typical Offer: | An undergraduate honours degree with a minimum 2:2 classification in a similar or related subject area |
Institution code: | S82 |
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UCAS code: | N/A |
Start date: | January 2025 |
Duration: | One year full-time, two years part-time |
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Location: | Ipswich |
Typical Offer: | An undergraduate honours degree with a minimum 2:2 classification in a similar or related subject area |
Institution code: | S82 |
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UCAS code: | N/A |
Start date: | January 2026 |
Duration: | One year full-time Two years part-time |
Location: | Ipswich |
Typical Offer: | An undergraduate honours degree with a minimum 2:2 classification in a similar or related subject area |
Institution code: | S82 |
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UCAS code: | N/A |
Start date: | January 2026 |
Duration: | One year full-time Two years part-time |
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Location: | Ipswich |
Typical Offer: | An undergraduate honours degree with a minimum 2:2 classification in a similar or related subject area |
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Overview
The MSc Public Health and Wellbeing course has been designed to cover key areas of public health with a focus on enhancing and promoting the health and wellbeing of populations, preventing health issues and addressing a range of factors that influence health and drive health inequalities. By understanding the importance of research, evidence and policies in public health, and by promoting the Sustainable Development Goals, studying this course at the University of Suffolk aims to empower students as agents of change in the field of public health.
Course Modules
Downloadable information regarding all University of Suffolk courses, including Key Facts, Course Aims, Course Structure and Assessment, is available in the Definitive Course Records.
The MSc Public Health and Wellbeing course provides an advanced introduction to the Principles of Public Health and Wellbeing with a special focus on health promotion in public health, as well as modules on Research Methods and Epidemiology, Global Public Health Leadership, two optional modules (see below), and culminates in a Dissertation. These modules will provide you with a solid grounding in key areas of public health.
With the choice of two optional modules available in Public Health Nutrition, Physical Activity and Public Health, the First 1000 Days of Life, and Mental Health Through the Life Course, the MSc Public Health and Wellbeing course uniquely incorporates a range of disciplines to harness the latest evidence and a holistic approach in preventing ill health and optimising health improvement.
This module will focus on the main domains, principles and concepts of public health as a discipline as well as defining and exploring the indices of wellbeing in the public health domain. Health promotion will be examined in depth which will incorporate behavioural theories and models and the impact that policies of importance to public health have on population health and wellbeing.
This module will focus on the variety of research methods that apply to public health and the discipline of epidemiology in public health. With a focus on primary research and secondary research, there will be a detailed appraisal of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research alongside literature searching and the importance of a systematic approach to a literature review.
This module will focus on evidence-led leadership and best practice to enhance competencies, embrace values, and empower decisions to become public health leaders in low (lower/upper), middle, and high-income countries. There will be the opportunity to explore principles of health economics and health protection with a strong focus on the Sustainable Development Goals and other relevant policies in public health that have a global reach, all of which will underpin the module.
Nutrition is one of the pillars for health and wellbeing and in practice, public health nutrition is inextricably linked to the improvement of health and prevention of disease. This module will address core contemporary issues in public health nutrition such as food inequality, obesity and chronic diseases, nutrition transitions, food sustainability and nutrition marketing. This module will have a particular focus on the impact of public health policies on the health and wellbeing of populations at local, national and global levels.
This module will focus on the health behaviour of physical activity and the importance of it within public health. There will be a particular focus on the relationship between physical activity and health status which also incorporates sedentary behaviour alongside the area of interventions and policies in the physical activity and public health arena.
This module will focus on the appraisal of healthcare and public health practice applied during the first 1000 days of life: from conception to age 2. The link between health inequalities/disparities and health inequities will be explored with the view to assess current policies that are designed to nourish strong beginnings for parent and baby, such as breastfeeding support programmes and expand programmes that help the most vulnerable.
This module will focus on the mental health needs of individuals and populations across all age groups exploring the variety of factors that impact mental health, policies designed to support mental health and interventions that assist with the management/support of mental health in populations.
This module provides students with the opportunity to undertake an independent research project of their own design. Supervision and some guided workshops will be provided.
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Career Opportunities
Studying the MSc Public Health and Wellbeing programme will develop skills and knowledge enabling graduates to work in public health roles within health, government and voluntary sectors as well as research industries and in the community.
Different disciplines will vary in scope of practice, for example, Public Health Nutritionists may work within various sectors which could include NHS Trusts, Health Promotion, Government departments, charities or the food industry in roles based on their expertise and qualifications.
Facilities and Resources
The Health and Wellbeing building provides students with a variety of state-of-the-art clinical simulation facilities, including two simulated hospital wards, a midwifery birthing unit, physiotherapy teaching spaces, a sports and exercise facility and a working radiography imaging suite. The building also hosts the Institute of Health and Wellbeing Research and the Integrated Care Academy.
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