A warm welcome to the MSc Global Public Health course at Canterbury Christ Church University. We look forward to meeting you and working with you to develop yourself as a person and professional. The course will support you to develop competencies to work in global public health and health service delivery within the NHS, local government, private and charity organisations, international development sector, academia and the wider health and wellbeing economy.

Dr Elisabetta Corvo
Course Director

Key dates

Course start date: 16 September 2024

Academic Calendar: Trimesters

View key dates for this Academic Calendar for 2024-25 including when teaching starts and finishes and when you break for holidays. 

Welcome and Induction

Your Welcome Week is an essential introduction to your course and student life at CCCU, helping you to feel confident and prepared for your studies right from the very start.

It is important to check your Welcome Schedule for all the activities you are required to attend during the week.

If any of your welcome activities are in groups, your course team will contact you before your arrival to let you know which group you will be in.

Your teaching timetable 

UniTimetables provides an overview of all teaching activities on a course. Your individual timetable will be available via MyTimetable and is personalised to show you what modules and groups you are expected to attend.

Your individual student timetable can only be produced once you have engaged with online registration and created your computing account. It is essential you complete these tasks when invited, so that your course team can assign you to your teaching activities and publish your individual timetable.

Find out more about all aspects of timetabling for new students including user guides.

Welcome

The core concept underpinning this course is the examination, analysis and reflection upon complex health determinants in an increasingly globalised world. You will explore the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and public health challenges contributing towards global inequalities. The central aspects of the course include creating an environment for interdisciplinary and inter-professional learning through embedding research and scholarship within the course, enhancing engagement with public health and wider health industry stakeholders and integrating the development of employability skills throughout. The course will use traditional face-to-face learning, combined with an innovative blended learning approach which will support you within a flexible learning environment.

Welcome and Induction

Please ensure you view and engage with the Welcome Schedule.

Visit us in the Health Hub to get your questions answered and have a soft drink and biscuit on us!

In addition to your course welcome activities, you can also join us at our Health Hub, timings below, where we can help you with any questions you may have or direct you to the most appropriate service.

You are now on your own exciting journey, but you are also part of our community where we support each other to grow and flourish at university and beyond. Drop in and stay connected. Meet and chat with new friends, the academic course administration team and your CCCU peers.

Drop in on the 2nd floor of the Verena Holmes building in VH 2.60 during any of the times below:

  • Monday 16 September, 12:30pm to 5pm
  • Tuesday 17 September, 9am to 5pm
  • Wednesday 18 September, 9am to 5pm

Follow us on our CCCU_Health Instagram account to keep up to date with what is happening for students.

Getting started

We are proud to be an inclusive University that supports a diverse community of students. Please note that if you have a disability or would like to learn more about the support that we can offer to students, please visit the Disability and Mental Health website.

Before you start your course, you might like to follow our Christ Church Public Health Social account @CCCU_PH. Have a look at Sustainable Development Goals and Global Public Health issues that are being discussed across the world. We do not expect you to complete any preparatory work before you commence your studies. However, please make sure that you have completed all the pre-course requests before you start otherwise you might not be able to access the library and other online information for some time. You must ensure you are ready to provide all evidence of qualification for registration, when requested.

Your welcome and induction will begin in week commencing 16 September 2024 - we look forward to meeting you then.

Pre-course reading

We would encourage you to review the course structure and module options via your course page before you arrive.

All module handbooks will include recommended and required reading. The following reading lists will help you to prepare for the course.

  • Birn, A., Pillay, Y. & Holtz, T.H. (2017) Textbook of Global Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Bowling, A. (2014) Research methods in health: investigating health and health services. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
  • Celentano, D. D. and Szklo, M. (2019) Gordis Epidemiology. 6th edn. Elsevier.
  • Hart, C. (2018) Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Research Imagination. London: Sage Publications.
  • Hubley, J., Copeman, J. and Woodall, J. (2021) Practical Health Promotion.3rd edn. Cambridge: Polity Press
  • Wills, J. (2022) Foundations for Health Promotion 5th edn. London: Elsevier

International student success programme

International students: don't miss out! Make sure you register for our international student success programme which provides practical advice on preparing to live and study in the UK.

Contact details

CourseSupport-health@canterbury.ac.uk