12 monthsProgramme duration
18 Aug, 2027Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Health/Healthcare
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
Course summary
Health challenges don’t stop at borders. So how do we respond when infectious disease spreads, obesity rises or climate change threatens the health of entire populations?
If you want to understand the forces shaping health around the world and develop evidence-based responses, MSc Global Health is for you.
At Southampton, you’ll explore global health from multiple perspectives, bringing together ideas from social sciences, medicine, environmental and life sciences. Examine how social, behavioural, demographic, spatial, economic, political and healthcare factors interact to shape population health and wellbeing.
You’ll investigate the global risks of disease and explore the trends behind health inequalities, globalisation, migration and urbanisation. This is a course that asks you to see the bigger picture – connecting individual health outcomes with the systems, environments and inequalities that influence them.
Data is a key part of that picture. Develop quantitative research skills through epidemiology, statistical modelling and the analysis of global health trends, learning how to interpret evidence and use it to investigate complex health problems.
Your learning will be active and collaborative. Work with case studies and real data, debate ideas with students from different backgrounds and develop solutions through problem-solving, peer review and group work.
Find your place in an international learning community and develop the analytical skills to understand global health challenges, question the evidence and contribute to responses that cross disciplines and borders.
Key features of this course
**See health from different perspectives.** Explore how demographic, social, economic, environmental, political and healthcare factors combine to influence health outcomes around the world.
**Build confidence with data.** Develop quantitative skills through statistical modelling, epidemiology and the analysis of global health trends and inequalities.
**Turn evidence into action.** Work with real data, case studies and problem-solving exercises, learning how to analyse complex information and communicate findings clearly.
**Shape your studies around your interests.** Choose from areas including advanced epidemiology, communicable disease control, nutrition and health, geographical information systems, ageing, social policy, sustainability and population change.
**Learn across disciplines.** Study modules informed by expertise from areas including social sciences, medicine, the environment and life sciences, helping you approach global health problems from more than one angle.
**Take on your own research challenge.** Complete an independent dissertation, giving you the opportunity to investigate a global health question in depth and put your research skills into practice.
Your future career
Improving global health needs people who can understand complex evidence, work across disciplines and see how local health challenges connect with wider global systems.
You’ll graduate with skills in research, critical thinking, data analysis, communication, teamwork and problem-solving alongside a broad understanding of global population health.
Graduates can work across government agencies, international charities, research institutes, universities, international aid and development organisations, disaster relief organisations, refugee health services and non-governmental organisations.
Roles directly related to the course can include global health consultant, global health educator, epidemiologist, global policy analyst, global health programme manager, university researcher and university lecturer. Wider possibilities include public health analysis, humanitarian aid, health communications and data analysis.
Whether you want to work in policy, research, international development or another health-related field, you’ll leave Southampton better equipped to turn complex global health evidence into informed action.
Student support
You’ll be assigned a personal academic tutor during your studies and will also have access to a senior tutor.
Your induction will introduce research skills, statistical software, academic writing and presentations, helping you build confidence before moving into more advanced study.
Further information
This is a 1-year, full-time MSc based at Highfield Campus. Part-time study of the same course content over 2 or more years is also available.
The first 9 months focus on taught learning, followed by 3 months dedicated to your independent dissertation.
Core study includes Applied Statistical Modelling, Basic Epidemiology, Critical Issues in Global Health: Concepts and Case Studies, Methods and Analysis of Global Health Trends and Differentials, Population and Reproductive Health, and the Global Health Dissertation.
Assessment can include reports, policy briefs, proposals, essays, data analysis and interpretation, presentations and your dissertation.
Health challenges don’t stop at borders. So how do we respond when infectious disease spreads, obesity rises or climate change threatens the health of entire populations?
If you want to understand the forces shaping health around the world and develop evidence-based responses, MSc Global Health is for you.
At Southampton, you’ll explore global health from multiple perspectives, bringing together ideas from social sciences, medicine, environmental and life sciences. Examine how social, behavioural, demographic, spatial, economic, political and healthcare factors interact to shape population health and wellbeing.
You’ll investigate the global risks of disease and explore the trends behind health inequalities, globalisation, migration and urbanisation. This is a course that asks you to see the bigger picture – connecting individual health outcomes with the systems, environments and inequalities that influence them.
Data is a key part of that picture. Develop quantitative research skills through epidemiology, statistical modelling and the analysis of global health trends, learning how to interpret evidence and use it to investigate complex health problems.
Your learning will be active and collaborative. Work with case studies and real data, debate ideas with students from different backgrounds and develop solutions through problem-solving, peer review and group work.
Find your place in an international learning community and develop the analytical skills to understand global health challenges, question the evidence and contribute to responses that cross disciplines and borders.
Key features of this course
**See health from different perspectives.** Explore how demographic, social, economic, environmental, political and healthcare factors combine to influence health outcomes around the world.
**Build confidence with data.** Develop quantitative skills through statistical modelling, epidemiology and the analysis of global health trends and inequalities.
**Turn evidence into action.** Work with real data, case studies and problem-solving exercises, learning how to analyse complex information and communicate findings clearly.
**Shape your studies around your interests.** Choose from areas including advanced epidemiology, communicable disease control, nutrition and health, geographical information systems, ageing, social policy, sustainability and population change.
**Learn across disciplines.** Study modules informed by expertise from areas including social sciences, medicine, the environment and life sciences, helping you approach global health problems from more than one angle.
**Take on your own research challenge.** Complete an independent dissertation, giving you the opportunity to investigate a global health question in depth and put your research skills into practice.
Your future career
Improving global health needs people who can understand complex evidence, work across disciplines and see how local health challenges connect with wider global systems.
You’ll graduate with skills in research, critical thinking, data analysis, communication, teamwork and problem-solving alongside a broad understanding of global population health.
Graduates can work across government agencies, international charities, research institutes, universities, international aid and development organisations, disaster relief organisations, refugee health services and non-governmental organisations.
Roles directly related to the course can include global health consultant, global health educator, epidemiologist, global policy analyst, global health programme manager, university researcher and university lecturer. Wider possibilities include public health analysis, humanitarian aid, health communications and data analysis.
Whether you want to work in policy, research, international development or another health-related field, you’ll leave Southampton better equipped to turn complex global health evidence into informed action.
Student support
You’ll be assigned a personal academic tutor during your studies and will also have access to a senior tutor.
Your induction will introduce research skills, statistical software, academic writing and presentations, helping you build confidence before moving into more advanced study.
Further information
This is a 1-year, full-time MSc based at Highfield Campus. Part-time study of the same course content over 2 or more years is also available.
The first 9 months focus on taught learning, followed by 3 months dedicated to your independent dissertation.
Core study includes Applied Statistical Modelling, Basic Epidemiology, Critical Issues in Global Health: Concepts and Case Studies, Methods and Analysis of Global Health Trends and Differentials, Population and Reproductive Health, and the Global Health Dissertation.
Assessment can include reports, policy briefs, proposals, essays, data analysis and interpretation, presentations and your dissertation.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Health/Healthcare
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
Course summary
Health challenges don’t stop at borders. So how do we respond when infectious disease spreads, obesity rises or climate change threatens the health of entire populations?
If you want to understand the forces shaping health around the world and develop evidence-based responses, MSc Global Health is for you.
At Southampton, you’ll explore global health from multiple perspectives, bringing together ideas from social sciences, medicine, environmental and life sciences. Examine how social, behavioural, demographic, spatial, economic, political and healthcare factors interact to shape population health and wellbeing.
You’ll investigate the global risks of disease and explore the trends behind health inequalities, globalisation, migration and urbanisation. This is a course that asks you to see the bigger picture – connecting individual health outcomes with the systems, environments and inequalities that influence them.
Data is a key part of that picture. Develop quantitative research skills through epidemiology, statistical modelling and the analysis of global health trends, learning how to interpret evidence and use it to investigate complex health problems.
Your learning will be active and collaborative. Work with case studies and real data, debate ideas with students from different backgrounds and develop solutions through problem-solving, peer review and group work.
Find your place in an international learning community and develop the analytical skills to understand global health challenges, question the evidence and contribute to responses that cross disciplines and borders.
Key features of this course
**See health from different perspectives.** Explore how demographic, social, economic, environmental, political and healthcare factors combine to influence health outcomes around the world.
**Build confidence with data.** Develop quantitative skills through statistical modelling, epidemiology and the analysis of global health trends and inequalities.
**Turn evidence into action.** Work with real data, case studies and problem-solving exercises, learning how to analyse complex information and communicate findings clearly.
**Shape your studies around your interests.** Choose from areas including advanced epidemiology, communicable disease control, nutrition and health, geographical information systems, ageing, social policy, sustainability and population change.
**Learn across disciplines.** Study modules informed by expertise from areas including social sciences, medicine, the environment and life sciences, helping you approach global health problems from more than one angle.
**Take on your own research challenge.** Complete an independent dissertation, giving you the opportunity to investigate a global health question in depth and put your research skills into practice.
Your future career
Improving global health needs people who can understand complex evidence, work across disciplines and see how local health challenges connect with wider global systems.
You’ll graduate with skills in research, critical thinking, data analysis, communication, teamwork and problem-solving alongside a broad understanding of global population health.
Graduates can work across government agencies, international charities, research institutes, universities, international aid and development organisations, disaster relief organisations, refugee health services and non-governmental organisations.
Roles directly related to the course can include global health consultant, global health educator, epidemiologist, global policy analyst, global health programme manager, university researcher and university lecturer. Wider possibilities include public health analysis, humanitarian aid, health communications and data analysis.
Whether you want to work in policy, research, international development or another health-related field, you’ll leave Southampton better equipped to turn complex global health evidence into informed action.
Student support
You’ll be assigned a personal academic tutor during your studies and will also have access to a senior tutor.
Your induction will introduce research skills, statistical software, academic writing and presentations, helping you build confidence before moving into more advanced study.
Further information
This is a 1-year, full-time MSc based at Highfield Campus. Part-time study of the same course content over 2 or more years is also available.
The first 9 months focus on taught learning, followed by 3 months dedicated to your independent dissertation.
Core study includes Applied Statistical Modelling, Basic Epidemiology, Critical Issues in Global Health: Concepts and Case Studies, Methods and Analysis of Global Health Trends and Differentials, Population and Reproductive Health, and the Global Health Dissertation.
Assessment can include reports, policy briefs, proposals, essays, data analysis and interpretation, presentations and your dissertation.
Health challenges don’t stop at borders. So how do we respond when infectious disease spreads, obesity rises or climate change threatens the health of entire populations?
If you want to understand the forces shaping health around the world and develop evidence-based responses, MSc Global Health is for you.
At Southampton, you’ll explore global health from multiple perspectives, bringing together ideas from social sciences, medicine, environmental and life sciences. Examine how social, behavioural, demographic, spatial, economic, political and healthcare factors interact to shape population health and wellbeing.
You’ll investigate the global risks of disease and explore the trends behind health inequalities, globalisation, migration and urbanisation. This is a course that asks you to see the bigger picture – connecting individual health outcomes with the systems, environments and inequalities that influence them.
Data is a key part of that picture. Develop quantitative research skills through epidemiology, statistical modelling and the analysis of global health trends, learning how to interpret evidence and use it to investigate complex health problems.
Your learning will be active and collaborative. Work with case studies and real data, debate ideas with students from different backgrounds and develop solutions through problem-solving, peer review and group work.
Find your place in an international learning community and develop the analytical skills to understand global health challenges, question the evidence and contribute to responses that cross disciplines and borders.
Key features of this course
**See health from different perspectives.** Explore how demographic, social, economic, environmental, political and healthcare factors combine to influence health outcomes around the world.
**Build confidence with data.** Develop quantitative skills through statistical modelling, epidemiology and the analysis of global health trends and inequalities.
**Turn evidence into action.** Work with real data, case studies and problem-solving exercises, learning how to analyse complex information and communicate findings clearly.
**Shape your studies around your interests.** Choose from areas including advanced epidemiology, communicable disease control, nutrition and health, geographical information systems, ageing, social policy, sustainability and population change.
**Learn across disciplines.** Study modules informed by expertise from areas including social sciences, medicine, the environment and life sciences, helping you approach global health problems from more than one angle.
**Take on your own research challenge.** Complete an independent dissertation, giving you the opportunity to investigate a global health question in depth and put your research skills into practice.
Your future career
Improving global health needs people who can understand complex evidence, work across disciplines and see how local health challenges connect with wider global systems.
You’ll graduate with skills in research, critical thinking, data analysis, communication, teamwork and problem-solving alongside a broad understanding of global population health.
Graduates can work across government agencies, international charities, research institutes, universities, international aid and development organisations, disaster relief organisations, refugee health services and non-governmental organisations.
Roles directly related to the course can include global health consultant, global health educator, epidemiologist, global policy analyst, global health programme manager, university researcher and university lecturer. Wider possibilities include public health analysis, humanitarian aid, health communications and data analysis.
Whether you want to work in policy, research, international development or another health-related field, you’ll leave Southampton better equipped to turn complex global health evidence into informed action.
Student support
You’ll be assigned a personal academic tutor during your studies and will also have access to a senior tutor.
Your induction will introduce research skills, statistical software, academic writing and presentations, helping you build confidence before moving into more advanced study.
Further information
This is a 1-year, full-time MSc based at Highfield Campus. Part-time study of the same course content over 2 or more years is also available.
The first 9 months focus on taught learning, followed by 3 months dedicated to your independent dissertation.
Core study includes Applied Statistical Modelling, Basic Epidemiology, Critical Issues in Global Health: Concepts and Case Studies, Methods and Analysis of Global Health Trends and Differentials, Population and Reproductive Health, and the Global Health Dissertation.
Assessment can include reports, policy briefs, proposals, essays, data analysis and interpretation, presentations and your dissertation.
Admission Requirements
67+
120+
92+
6.5+
You'll need a 2.1 degree. Please note this programme is not a medicine one.
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