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MSc Paediatrics and Child Health: Global Child Health

  • DeadlineStudy Details: 1 academic year 2 academic years 5 academic years

Masters Degree Description

How can we use the latest research and evidence-based practice to build better child health services around the world? Join us to find out on this specialist one-year Master’s degree at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. You will benefit from our strong links with Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, build high-level skills, and go away in a strong position to help shape child health globally.

Entry Requirements

Medically qualified applicants should have post-qualification experience in paediatrics or child health. Non-medically qualified applicants should have an upper second-class UK bachelor's degree or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard, and experience of working in hospitals, community child health or public health services for children and families. Medically qualified applicants should have post-qualification experience in paediatrics or child health. Non-medically qualified applicants should have an upper second-class UK bachelor's degree or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard, and experience of working in hospitals, community child health or public health services for children and families.

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Fees

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Programme Funding

UCL offers a range of financial awards aimed at assisting both prospective and current students with their studies.

Student Destinations

This Master’s degree will help you understand the core principles of evidence-based paediatrics and child health. You will learn about current and future developments in paediatric medicine and child health and gain the skills necessary to critically appraise practice and policy, and carry out independent Master's-level research. You will also have the academic and clinical skills you need to work on global child health. Graduates can continue in their career pathway in global child health internationally. Many of our graduates have gone on to begin or complete their specialist paediatric training, into careers as consultants in paediatrics or senior professionals in other related fields including with the NHS, government health departments, ministries of health and NGOs all over the world.* * Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of UK and EU graduates in the cohorts 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  • Research Project Report
  • Evidence-based Child Health
  • Applied Statistics for Health Research I
  • Essentials of Global Child Health
  • Respiration Through Life, Health and Disease
  • International Child Mental Health
  • Epidemiology for Child Health
  • Immunisation and Communicable Diseases
  • Safeguarding and Children in Society
  • Child Public Health
  • Nutrition, Growth and Physical Activity
  • Leadership and Professional Development
  • Clinical Genomics Genetic and Rare Diseases
  • Specialist Paediatrics I
  • Specialist Paediatrics II
  • Molecular Biology of Normal Development and Birth Defects
  • Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Childhood Cancers
  • Adolescent Health Medicine
  • Paediatric Critical Care (General)
  • Stabilisation and Transport of the Critically Ill Child
  • Cardiac Critical Care
  • Ethics and Law for Paediatrics and Child Health
  • Neonatal Intensive Care
  • Conflict, Humanitarianism and Health
  • Key Principles of Health Economics
  • Collecting and Using Data: Essentials of Quantitative Survey Research
  • Health Systems in a Global Context
  • Regression Modelling
  • Concepts and Controversies in Global Health

Optional modules

  • Respiration Through Life, Health and Disease
  • International Child Mental Health
  • Epidemiology for Child Health
  • Immunisation and Communicable Diseases
  • Safeguarding and Children in Society
  • Child Public Health
  • Nutrition, Growth and Physical Activity
  • Leadership and Professional Development
  • Clinical Genomics Genetic and Rare Diseases
  • Specialist Paediatrics I
  • Specialist Paediatrics II
  • Molecular Biology of Normal Development and Birth Defects
  • Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Childhood Cancers
  • Adolescent Health Medicine
  • Paediatric Critical Care (General)
  • Stabilisation and Transport of the Critically Ill Child
  • Cardiac Critical Care
  • Ethics and Law for Paediatrics and Child Health
  • Neonatal Intensive Care
  • Conflict, Humanitarianism and Health
  • Key Principles of Health Economics
  • Collecting and Using Data: Essentials of Quantitative Survey Research
  • Health Systems in a Global Context
  • Regression Modelling
  • Concepts and Controversies in Global Health
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