MSc Occupational Medicine

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MSc (part-time distance learning)
  UK students (per annum): £6,400 in year 1 and 2, £3,200 in year 3
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £6,400 in year 1 and 2, £3,200 in year 3

The fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

Fees for entry are subject to yearly review. The University reserves the right to increase your tuition fee by up to 7% each year for courses lasting more than one year, including to reflect rising costs associated with delivering our educational and wider student experience. Postgraduate fees information .

Always contact the admissions team if you are unsure which fee applies to your qualification award and method of attendance.

Students opting for MSc 1 year full-time or 2 year part-time course of study could qualify for a PGT loan from the UK government. Please see our university pages or contact admissions.

Students studying our MSc programme over 3 years part-time may also be eligible for a postgraduate loan if there is no other suitable full time equivalent course available in the UK at the time of application. Please contact our admissions for more information.

Please note: The fees do not cover any costs for travel or accommodation related to any optional on campus events.

Several of our students are sponsored by their employers or the governments of their home countries.

Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning, AP(E)L

The University permits applicants with comparable previous experience to submit an application for consideration of Accreditation Prior (Experiential) Learning (AP(E)L). AP(E)L will be allowed up to half of the total credits needed for the programme at the point of application. If you wish to submit an AP(E)L application, please contact the admissions team.
If an AP(E)L application is successful, the overall tuition fee is adjusted accordingly and a small administrative charge applied.

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).

For the latest scholarship and bursary information please visit the fees and funding page.

A limited number of Equity and Merit scholarships are available to applicants from Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Please visit the Equity and Merit scholarships page for full details.

This course unit introduces the subject of Planetary Health and explores its effects on the health of populations around the world including climate change and other disruptions to Earth's systems (biodiversity loss, pollution, land use) and their combined effects on human health. We look at how the Earth’s climate and environment is changing and what this means to different areas of the world, what we can reasonably expect in the future based on current knowledge, and how we can protect our communities from the consequences. 

Students gain an understanding of how anthropogenic activities and emissions are affecting planetary health, and prospective forecasting and scenario development. The impacts of climate change and pollution on population and individual health are examined and explored along with evidence-based policy making and setting specific responses

This unit aims to:

• Synthesise the evidence base for climate change, land use, access to green space and blue space, biodiversity loss, and pollution and the impacts on, and implications for, health.
• Provide an introduction to climate environmental sience and the Planetary Health and climate change policies and actions taken around the world on prevention, mitigation and adaption.
• Understand the concept of "One Health" and its role in managing zoonotic diseases and ecological interactions.
• Develop understanding of the specific health impacts, adaptations, interventions for mitigation, and adequate responses which will allow public health professionals to create policies and practices and, design and deliver appropriate services for the setting in which they work 

• Introduction to climate change
• Scenarios and international agreements
• Extreme climate events and effects on health
• Species distribution, allergies and infectious diseases
• Agriculture, food and nutrition
• Indirect effects on health
• Migration and displacement
• Global responses to climate change
• Co-benefits, mitigation and adaptation
• Developing setting specific responses

This is an optional course unit for students on the online MPH and MRes Public Health programmes.  There will be written materials by tutors guiding students through the course, illustrated with photographs and figures to illustrate the rich topic areas.  Much of the content will be presented through reading, including peer reviewed journals (accessible through the University library), and multimedia, including videos.  Students will be directed to a variety of relevant literature each week, but also encouraged to research and explore and find their own sources.

There will be regular interaction with the tutors through scheduled seminars (which will be recorded) and online through discussion boards.  Students will be encouraged to use self-reflection to think about the ideas discussed, and take part in dicussion board activities. 

Students should work through the unit in a logical sequence.  The individual course unit timetables will guide what should be done and when.  Participation in the discussion boards is greatly encouraged, and can help enhance your learning experience and prepare you for your assessment. 

The majority of the course will be delivered through the virtual learning platform, which include required and additional reading, self-tests and discussion boards.  There will be webinars that will be recorded to allow syncronous and asynchronous learning.  

 

• Understand, explain and critically discuss the basic climate system, the process of climate change and the impact of human activities on climate.
• Analyse the interdependence between human health and the health of natural systems, recognizing human stewardship as a primary determinant of future population health.
• Explain the concept of "One Health" and its role in managing zoontonic diseases and ecological interactions.

 

• Understand and articulate the impacts of climage change on health, globally and locally and policies and measures aimed at reducing, or adapting to, climate change and health impacts.
• Systematically appraise and evaluate research, for example, from planning, urban design, green and blue spaces and effects on health and wellbeing, both locally and globally.
• Evaluate enviornmental determinants of health inequalities and analyse how global environmental change disproportionately impacts vulnerable populations and regions.

• Apply understanding of climate change and health impacts to the development of realworld solutions.
• Critically appraise methods and tools (epidemiology, data science, social sciences) for measuring the health impacts of global environmental change.

• Undersand the ethical issues, both inter and intra generational and the opportunities and restraints under which organisations operate.
• Develop scenarios and pathways for climate adaptation and mitigation strategies to reduce adverse health outcomes.

Students are provided with personalised feedback for their final summative assignment (2,000 words) within 15 working days following the submission deadline.

Opportunities for formative feedback (on non-assessed work) is also provided during the course unit. 

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – website https://unfccc.int/  

The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change website - https://www.thelancet.com/countdown-health-climate  

If you have any questions about the content of this unit, please contact the course unit please contact the PGT programme administrators via email on shs.programmes@manchester.ac.uk