Public Health

Are you passionate about getting health messages out to the wider society? Do you want to see large populations lead healthier, fuller lives?

With this BSc (Hons) Public Health degree, you will learn how to protect, promote, and improve the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities in the UK and abroad.

You will develop effective verbal, written, audio-visual, and social media presentation and communication skills.

Additionally, this course includes Making Every Contact Count (MECC) training (usually delivered in Year 2). MECC is about taking every opportunity to ask, assist and advise people about their lifestyles, including:

• smoking
• alcohol
• physical activity
• healthy eating
• mental wellbeing.

It will enable you to use evidence-based methods to empower people to make the changes they choose. The knowledge, skills, and experience you gain on this public health course will enable you to pursue a broad, non-clinical, public health career in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

What you'll study

Learn about the social, cultural, economic and political factors that affect health, as well as identify health patterns and trends in the health and wellness of individuals, neighbourhoods and populations.

You will enhance your leadership skills and ability to work as part of a team. Your new skills will help you to:

• work effectively with diverse groups involved in the promotion of public health
• deliver and evaluate innovative health promotion campaigns
• influence the development of policy for healthy communities.

You can also develop wider skills from organising and taking part in real-world health promotion, such as a World AIDS Day flash mob and a student-led health conference seminar. Additionally, the University provides an excellent volunteering service with opportunities in public health-related charities and not-for-profit organisations.

After completing the course, you will be able to work within multi-agency teams delivering health promotion projects and programmes and will possess the interpersonal and community engagement skills to work in diverse communities.