Key Information
Campus
Ruskin College Oxford
Available Starts
January, June and September
Funding
SFE funding available
University Validation
University of West London
Working in the public health industry can be a very fulfilling and enjoyable career, as you will find on this Public Health degree course.
Course detail & modules
You will learn how to safeguard, promote, and improve the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities in the UK and overseas under the supervision of our experts. Empowering individuals, families and societies to make healthy lifestyle changes through effective verbal, written, audio-visual and social media presentations is at the heart of this Public Health degree.
Under the guidance of our expert tutelage, you will learn about the social, cultural, economic and political factors that affect health as well as identify patterns and trends in the health and wellness of individuals, neighbourhoods and populations.
You can also develop wider skills such as taking part in organising real-world health promotions such as a World AIDS day flash mob and a student-led health conference seminar.
In addition, you will enhance your leadership skills and ability to work as part of a team.
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.
Additional benefits
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.
The University provides an excellent volunteering service with opportunities in public health-related charities and not-for-profit organisations.
- Lifelong Learning for Public Health
- Finding, Understanding and using Evidence for Public Health
- Determinants of Health and Wellbeing
- Health and Wellbeing Across the Lifecourse
- Measuring Individual Health and Wellbeing
- Politics and Advocacy in Public Health
Study & career progression
When you graduate you could progress onto a career in public health and health promotion in the public, private or voluntary sectors.
These include jobs in public health, social care, housing and leisure departments in local councils or national agencies; in human resources departments in medium to large companies focusing on staff wellbeing; in community projects, run by charities, supporting local people to improve their own health and wellbeing; working in fundraising, research, project management and directly with communities here and abroad. Within these organisations, you could work as a:
- health adviser
- training facilitator
- project manager
- programme officer