Global Healthcare Leadership (Taught)

Global Healthcare Leadership at Keele provides you with the opportunity to elevate your leadership and management skills to transform healthcare delivery.

Why choose this course?

• Benefit from peer-learning and networking with other healthcare professionals

• Oversees field visits are included in the programme for students to learn from and experience differing healthcare systems

• Blended learning approaches that support working patterns of healthcare professionals through a community of practice

This prestigious course has been developed together with Prof Ian Cumming (OBE), Professor of Global Healthcare at Keele University and former CEO of Health Education England (HEE), which will be delivered in partnership with subject experts from organisations including HEE, the Tropical Health Education Trust (THET), and overseas partner organisations.

Our two year part time programme takes a blended learning approach where you will collaborate with other students as an online community of practice.

The programme provides you with the opportunity to engage with and experience a variety of worldwide healthcare systems through three overseas case study visits. The overall aim is for you to learn from and transpose your leadership and management skills to enhance effective health care delivery within your own organisations and to share good practice.

Applying for Global Healthcare Leadership MSc
Applicants for this programme are invited to submit an expression of interest (EOI) in the first instance, which will then be reviewed by the programme team. Please see below for the 2025 deadlines (dates to be confirmed) for submitting the EOI and full application:

• Early June - deadline for EOIs

• Late June - notification of EOI outcome and invitation to make formal application to Keele

• July - deadline for formal applications for 1 Sept start

About Keele
Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.

Course Modules

For information regarding modules for this course, please visit the course page on the Keele University website.