Overview
This short course provides an introduction to basic concepts in health protection.
Content
On completion, you should be able to:
• Describe the distribution, extent and public health impact of key communicable and non-communicable hazards.
• Describe the basic concepts of communicable and non-communicable disease surveillance, epidemiology, prevention and control.
• Describe the organisational structures involved in health protection in the UK and surveillance systems for communicable diseases.
• Understand the key principles of immunisation and management of immunisation programmes.
• Critically apply the principles and steps involved in the investigation and management of health protection incidents.
• Critically apply the basic concepts of infection control for health protection.
• Critically apply the principles of risk assessment, emergency planning and emergency preparedness, and understand the networks involved in the emergency planning process.
• Understand the role of legislation and Public Health law in the context of health protection in the UK.
• Understand the key threats associated with travel and migrant health and critically apply basic principles in the prevention of travel associated diseases.
• Understand the key concepts of exposure pathways, basic toxicology and disease cluster investigation.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of the impact of the wider determinants of health on the distribution and course of communicable diseases and non-communicable hazards.
Credits
20 credits
Course dates
3 - 7 and 10 - 14 March 2025
Assessment
Unseen examination - 50%
Poster presentation - 50%
Coordinators
Co-Module Lead (external): Dr Patrick Saunders
Co-Module Lead (external): Dr Harsh Duggal
Stand Alone Course
- This module can be taken as a standalone course if required.
- All applications must be received a minimum of one month before the start date of the module.
- The course can be taken as an assessed or non assessed week.
- This course is available as part of the Masters in Public Health programme at the University of Birmingham and on a stand alone basis for CPD purposes.
- Degree entry requirement.
- For further information, please contact the Programme Coordinator at mph@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
You can choose to study this course as either a microcredential or a non-credit CPD shortcourse.
Why choose a Postgraduate Microcredential short course?
- Usually taken from exisiting modules within a Masters, they can be used as standalone credentials with some also counting as academic credits at postgraduate level
- Add a postgraduate level qualification to your CV
- Develop the specialist skills you need for your career goals
- Alumni status with the University of Birmingham
- Learners will have the same access to our student support and campus facilities as our students on full degree programmes.
Please note that once registered for the microcredential you cannot swap for the non-credit shortcourse version.
Apply for the Microcredential
Non-credit short course
The microcredential and the non-credit short course follow the same course structure, the difference between them both is with the non-credit short course you do not take the assessment at the end therefore you will not receive credits but will recieve a certificate of completion, this certificate cannot be converted to credits.
Please note if you apply for the non-credit short course, you cannot swap to the microcredential version once registered.
Apply for the non-credit CPD shortcourse