This module is for all professionals and practitioners who are interested in promoting health and wellbeing through education in its broadest sense whether working in low, middle, or high-income countries, in schools, local communities or other settings.
This is a core module for the MA Education, Health Promotion and International Development, but can be taken by all post-graduate students at the UCL Institute of Education (IOE). The module can be studied by those from a range of backgrounds including education, counselling, health, social work, community development, social development and other related areas you do not need to have a health or medical background to study the module.
The module has been designed to enable participants to focus on health-related issues and concerns of interest to them and to do so within a generic approach to understanding and promoting health and wellbeing. Overall aim through wide-reading, discussion and investigation of practice, the aim of the module is to build participants critical awareness of the factors that shape and influence health and wellbeing nature of health promotion and the importance of participatory practice approaches to promoting health and wellbeing key features and elements of project planning and proposal development that contribute to the promotion of health and wellbeing through education.
By the end of the module, participants who engage in sessions/activities and carry out essential readings and discussions should be able to, demonstrate an understanding of the nature of, and practices associated with, health and wellbeing, health promotion, planning models, participatory approaches and proposal writing, apply what they have learned to a health-related problem or issue of relevance to them, demonstrate their skills in essay and proposal writing using a standard format.
The module is taught across ten weeks during Term 2.  
Teaching is by way of lectures, videos, individual and small group online activities, and a weekly seminar. The module is assessed by way of a 5000 word assignment. This invites students to apply their learning from the module to prepare a project proposal that addresses a health and wellbeing issue relevant to their own concerns and interests.
Students who have taken this module have focused their assignment on a range of health-related issues including: AIDS and HIV infection, cultural heritage and health , health and wellbeing of boys and young men, healthy and health promoting schools, the roles of Community Health Workers, maternal and child health, mental health and wellbeing among recently arrived communities ,  policy analyses and advocacy, sex education and sexual and reproductive health, the promotion of health and wellbeing in humanitarian crises, , water, sanitation and hygiene programmes, the wellbeing of young refugees and internally displaced people. Countries of focus have included: Argentina, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Central African Republic, China, Costa Rica, Ghana, India, Iran, Kenya, Mexico, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Sudan, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia, United Kingdom. 