If you're passionate about helping to promote and protect people's health, our degree course is for you. You’ll have opportunities to develop practical and professional skills, engage with employers, interpret and report upon data, and get hands-on experience with a work placement.
Public health covers three key areas:
Health Improvement: Involves work to improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities by promoting health lifestyle changes e.g. helping people to quit smoking, improving their living conditions, or promoting healthy eating, but also tackling underlying issues like poverty and reduced access to healthcare.
Health Protection: Involves ensuring the safety and quality of the environment, food and water, preventing the spread of communicable disease, and managing outbreaks e.g. pandemic flu, or addressing the health effects of climate change in the UK or abroad.
Healthcare: Helping to ensure that health and care services are fit-for-purpose and accessible by all sectors of the population.
Health inequality means that we don’t all start with the same chance in life. The need to recognise public health needs has never been so important.
The diverse nature of public health means that no day is the same. From interviewing students about drug and alcohol addiction or creating a campaign about exercise and nutrition in a poor area of the UK to writing a report to inform a government about a rare disease in a developing country.
You’ll gain the practical skills needed in real situations, from taking part in simulated scenarios and community based research to creating reports, presentations and demonstrations to present to panels and judges. We’ll support you to develop confidence and effectiveness needed when working in collaborative groups. Back in the classroom you’ll gain research and analytical skills to be able to interpret data and understand how to create solutions and reports from these. From developing technologies and health trends to your social media presence and campaigning, we monitor and change with the landscape, so your degree is always relevant.
When you graduate you’ll be equipped to use evidence to help plan and implement health solutions for individuals and communities and to develop effective health policies. You’ll also be aware of important issues like health inequalities and social justice, be familiar with useful health needs assessment and data analysis tools, and have developed effective communication skills.
We’ve worked with public health stakeholders, including Public Health England, the UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) and Health Education England to create our course, and our teaching staff are part of international networks which inform everything we do.
You’ll constantly consider your career; engaging with public health occupational frameworks and demonstrating a range of UKPHR standards. This will be supported by the work placement you undertake and the portfolio that you’ll create from day one and take right through to interviews and registration.
Course Details - Modules
Year one, core modules
Human Systems and Disease
Practitioner in Public Health
Promoting Health and Wellbeing
Understanding Epidemiology
Year two, core modules
Data Analysis in Public Health Research
Global Health and Sustainability
Health Communication
Healthcare Systems
Year three, core modules
Driving Change in Population Health
Responsive Public Health Practitioner
Engagement in the Public Health Community
Strategies to Enhance Health
Course Details – Assessment Method
To ensure you’re gaining relevant real life skills we’ll assess you through modern techniques, such as simulated scenarios and role plays, case studies based on field trips, multi-media projects and even a Dragon’s Den style panel. You’ll also be assessed by more traditional methods, including reports, essays, group work and portfolio work.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
B912
Institution code:
A60
Campus Name:
Chelmsford Campus
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
80 UCAS Tariff points from a minimum of 2 A Levels (or equivalent).
UCAS Tariff points from a minimum of 2 A Levels (or equivalent).
80 UCAS Tariff points from Scottish Advanced Highers are accepted.
80 UCAS Tariff points from Scottish Highers are accepted.
80 UCAS Tariff points from Access to HE Diplomas
80 UCAS Tariff points acquired from BTEC Level 3 Diplomas are accepted.
If English is not your first language you will be expected to demonstrate a certificated level of proficiency of at least IELTS 6.0 (Academic level) or equivalent English Language qualification, as recognised by Anglia Ruskin University.
2020 Entry requirements are under review for the next cycle and have been published using the current cycle information. Please check back when apply opens for the exact requirements
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