Course Outline:
The course is designed to give students an introduction to international health.
The aims are:
• to gain understanding of health and the provision of healthcare in different countries and cultures worldwide
• to understand the local factors that affect a population’s health and the global factors that link and shape health across the world.
The programme consists of 3 course units of compulsory modules, 1 unit of which is a project of the student’s choice. There is a further 1 unit of optional modules, including the opportunity to study a course elsewhere in UCL or at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Course Modules:
Compulsory modules
• International Health Policy (1 course unit)
• Health, Poverty, and Development (½ course unit)
• Conflict, Migration and Human Rights (½ course unit)
• Project (1 course unit)
Optional modules
Students must take either:
• Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries (½ course unit)
or
• Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries (½ course unit)
The remaining half course unit should be chosen from another relevant UCL department, such as Anthropology, Geography, Economics or History of Medicine (½ course unit).
Entry Requirements:
The course is open to any student, from any medical school, who has completed at least two years of a medical degree. All students studying at universities in the UK, European Union and other universities with which UCL has a partnership agreement may apply to take the full BSc programme. For those students who study at other universities, the full one-year course is available, but students must register at UCL as affiliate students, and are not permitted to receive the BSc qualification. They will, however, receive a transcript of all courses they have undertaken that they can take back to their home university. It may also be possible for students studying non-medical courses to undertake the programme. Please contact Chris Willott (details below) for more details.
Contact:
Lorna Richardson
http://www.ihmec.ucl.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7288 5347
