MSc Global Health (Emergency Medical Response) / Course details

MSc Global Health at Manchester has been developed in collaboration with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

Aimed at both those new to the humanitarian sector and professionals who want to update their skills, our course offers a practical means of study and an inclusive approach which mirrors the reality of interventions within a humanitarian context.

You will explore issues related to the worldwide improvement of health, the reduction of disparities, protection against global threats that disregard national borders, and specialise in Emergency Medical Response.

The course is unique in bringing together the study of emergency medicine, disaster management, community health, anthropology and sociology of health and illness in an online format.

You will have access to leading multidisciplinary academics and practitioners. For example, we have a close working relationship with the charity UK-Med, which aims to improve the training and accountability of medical teams to sudden onset disasters and complex emergencies.

•    Provide students with critical insights into various perspectives on how Global Health can be understood, analysed, and explained.

•    Develop students’ analytical skills in critically evaluating the idea of Global Health and the ways it is organised, justified and implemented.

•    Develop students’ skills in gathering, organising and using evidence and information from a wide variety of sources.

•    Enable students to apply established techniques of research and enquiry to a relevant research area.

•    Enable students to gain a relevant specialisation in Emergency Medical Response.

Online Course Delivery

 You will be able to engage fully with the course content and other students via recorded lectures, discussion boards, group work, online chat, question and answer sessions with the tutor, and peer-to-peer feedback and assessment.

The course will begin with an online induction session that explains how the course will progress and how you can fully engage with the curriculum and the online classroom environment. It will set out the key contacts and what each student can expect.

Academic and pastoral support will be offered online by the programme director, course leaders and teaching assistants, who will be responsible for monitoring progression through the course. A dedicated programme administrator will be responsible for dealing with day-to-day enquiries.

The course lasts for three years in total. You will study four course units in each of Years 1 and 2. Three units comprises ten weeks of teaching followed by one week for assessment. The research methods module will run in parallel and across the academic year. The format is designed to be adaptable to the needs of professional students and provides opportunity for reflection between units.Year 3 comprises the dissertation for the MSc award. Students will submit a research proposal and be allocated a dissertation supervisor. You will then be guided through key milestones in the completion of your dissertation.

The course has been designed to recreate a classroom learning environment in an online format. You will be able to engage fully with the course content and with peers via lectures, discussion boards, group work, online chat, question and answer sessions with the tutor, and peer-to-peer feedback and assessment.

All assessment will take place online. Each of the four units in Years 1 and 2 will conclude with a selection of assessments, including multiple choice tests, group assignments, and prose-based assessments.

Certain academic pieces placed in the discussion forums are used as part of the overall assessment process for each unit (10%).

Each student will provide a 100 to 150-word (excluding references) written academic piece expressing a view or perspective upon a question raised by the tutor/convenor weekly during the course.This will provide eight pieces of primary work that will be submitted to the discussion board per course unit. Engagement on the discussion boards is required throughout the course.You will receive formative feedback and guidance throughout the course, which will enable you to progress and develop your confidence and analytical skills.

“The tutors are very approachable and are also very open and responsive to feedback.My course has students from all over the world, and the experience we have between us is rich and diverse, making for some very interesting discussions and peer learning.”Rubina / Graduate

HCRI

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute is widely recognised as being a leading international research institute focusing on the study of humanitarianism, conflict response, and peacebuilding.

You’ll have the opportunity to engage first-hand with the people, projects and organisations that shape humanitarian, global health, disaster management, conflict response, and intervention strategy around the world.

HCRI is home to UK-Med, an NGO that provides international emergency humanitarian medical assistance to incidents worldwide.