Outline:

Strong leadership, management, and communication are essential skills in the art of public health. This module is designed to give you a strong...

Leadership and Management for Public Health (IEHC0062)

‘Frontiers of Knowledge in Population Health’ will develop your understanding of new and emerging issues in population health; it will prioritize...

Frontiers of Knowledge in Population Health (IEHC0029)

‘Frontiers of Knowledge in Population Health’ will develop your understanding of new and emerging issues in population health; it will prioritize the presentation of academic work in progress rather than established knowledge. The aim is to teach you about emerging themes in population health as well as how knowledge develops and is disseminated within the academic community. Further aims are to enable you to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary population health research and to further develop your capacity to critically appraise key issues in population health. Teaching will cover a variety of topics related population health from developmental theory through to ageing.

At the end of the module you will be able to:


	Discuss and recognize emerging issues in population health research
	
	
	Access and appraise a wide range of population health research and resources for investigating those including academic journals, online data repositories and public health information.
	
	
	Critically review ways of generating knowledge in population health
	
	
	Evaluate different ways of dealing with uncertainty in responding to emerging population health problems.
	
This is an intermediate module open to Year 2 students on the BSc Population Health Sciences programme. There is availability for UCL elective students from other departments, however, spaces are limited and are allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis on Portico.

You will attend weekly lectures from guest speakers across UCL and beyond, as well as weekly seminars.

Module leads are Dr Panos Demakakos, Dr Barbara Jefferis and Dr Olesya Ajnakina.

Selected Reading List 


	Fair society, healthy lives. The Marmot Review. Strategic review of health inequalities in England post-2010 (2010) Marmot M, Allen J, Goldblatt P and Boyce T.
	Freely available at: http://www.instituteofhealthequity.org/projects/fair-society-healthy-lives-the-marmot-review