Paediatrics and Child Health: Global Child Health MSc

UCL (University College London)

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. Join us on our multidisciplinary Master’s degree to gain specialist insight into child health in the global context, build sought-after research skills, and gain experience of the latest evidence-based practice. Launched in 1986, originally as the MSc in Community Paediatrics, this postgraduate course is part of the longest running paediatric health MSc in London. You will develop expertise in the principles and practice of paediatrics and child health, working with world-renowned experts from UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). You will then have the chance to explore specific areas in greater depth – such as acute and chronic paediatrics, immunisation, safeguarding, nutrition, growth and physical activity, and the essentials of global child health. Teaching takes place at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) in close collaboration with experts from GOSH NHS Foundation Trust. With diverse module choices in areas including immunisation, safeguarding, clinical genomics and rare diseases, ethics and law for child health you can shape the course towards the areas most in line with your interests and career plans. The course is intended for professionals specialising in paediatrics and child health. The Paediatrics and Child Health: Global Child Health MSc aims to provide an opportunity for graduates from medicine and related fields, to study global issues in child health. You will build an awareness of current and future developments in paediatric medicine and global child health and gain the skills necessary to critically appraise practice and policy, and undertake independent research if the full MSc is taken. This programme is also available on a modular (flexible) basis, with a duration of 5 calendar years.

Population Health Sciences