Course Overview

According to the World Health Organisation, climate change is the greatest threat to human health in the 21st century.

The MSc Health and Climate Change course is for current or future health leaders prepared to meet that challenge head-on.

Local, regional, national and international authorities and organisations need to research, produce and implement strategies and policies that account for the impact of changing climates on public health, and the private sector needs to adapt to these policies. However, there are very few workers in the UK and worldwide with the specialist knowledge that these jobs require.

This MSc Health and Climate Change focuses on the impact of climate change on human health and explores strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change from a public health perspective.

We study what climate change is and investigate the predicted consequences of climate change on, for example, cardiorespiratory disease, vector-borne diseases, infections and immunity, nutrition and health inequalities.

Taking a “think globally, act locally” stand, we cover both impacts of environmental change on public health and local, place-based mitigation and adaptation strategies. We have established collaborations with local authorities and organisations and paired up with existing and successful MSc programmes at the University to ensure that we help our graduates acquire the skills and expertise they need to become leaders in their chosen fields of health and climate change.

General Eligibility

• You will have a minimum of a 2:2 Honours degree or international equivalent in a programme related to health sciences, for example, health sciences, medicine, public health, biomedical science and biomedical sciences.

• Some (any, paid or unpaid) experience in a health setting, for example, in a healthcare provider, a public health department in local, regional or national authorities, a clinical setting, a pharmacy, a vaccination centre, ambulance services, a clinical or (bio)medical research laboratory, a national health system, a public health data/bioinformatics analysis group, a (bio)medical charity.

• Professional experience will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 5.5 in each skill.