MSc Global Health

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2026, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MSc (part-time distance learning)
  UK students (per annum): £5,000
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £9,800

Further information for EU students can be found on our dedicated EU page.

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

• Information on university funding, loans, and scholarships available on the Masters student funding page
• The Faculty of Humanities offered a range of scholarship opportunities for eligible applicants starting in September 2025. Please check back to confirm availability for September 2026 start.
• Please visit the school funding page for more information on subject funding available
• Other funding for EU and international students is on our country-specific pages

This module will explore the concepts of risk, vulnerability and resilience in the context of multi-risk environments and climate change. These core principles in disaster management will be analysed in applied contexts.  There will also be the opportunity to evaluate and create practical measures, such as risk matrices, qualitative surveys, data analysis and disaster risk management reports,

Risk is an important concept which straddles the social and natural sciences.  This module will seek to understand the theories behind risk and then look at practical measures using to assess hazard risk and the perception of it.  Vulnerability is a component of risk.  In this module you will review the key vulnerabilities but understand how these change in demographic / cultural settings.  There will be the opportunity to learn the tools used to assess vulnerability such as EVCAs.

Resilience building is a key component of the Sendai Framework and seeks to make countries and communities more able to live with risk.  This module identifies the key characteristics of resilience and seeks to appraise methods undertaken at national and local levels to improve resilience. 

This module will also consider the potential changes associated with different climate futures and will seek to understand, at an international scale, how we should be developing our mitigative and adaptive approaches.  The module will look at applied examples in the Caribbean and Iceland to assess approaches to National Disaster Risk Assessment works which will provide a basis for the assessment tasks.

• This unit aims to develop a theoretical understanding of the risk, vulnerability, and resilience nexus in a disaster management context
• To assess the application of risk, vulnerability and resilience in applied contexts
• To identify approaches to measure and analyse risk vulnerability and resilience

• Describe basic epidemiology practice
• Compare and use of relative risk and attributable risk
• Define risk factors and their effect on different health risks
• Identify psychological limitations to assessing risk 

• Undertake Health risk assessments
• Perform Risk mitigation analysis

• Assess risk factors for different locations
• Develop mitigation plans according to identified risk factors

• Use persuasive writing
• Apply risk communication for health threats

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Please note that these units are intensive 8-week short courses, predominately independent-study, with no face-to-face learning