MSC Global Health Humanitarian Response is a Masters program taught at University of Manchester, UK. Intake: January and September entry points available. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time (3 years (part-time)) options.
The University of Manchester offers the MSc Global Health (Humanitarian Response), a part-time distance learning Master of Science for people working in the humanitarian sector or looking to enter it. The course studies global health challenges such as conflict and displacement, disease outbreaks, health inequalities, and humanitarian emergencies. It uses an interdisciplinary approach combining humanitarian studies, disaster studies, emergency medicine, community health, and the anthropology of health and illness.
Manchester states that online course delivery includes recorded lectures, discussion boards, group work, online chat, tutor Q&A, and peer-to-peer feedback and assessment. The programme begins with an online induction session, provides online academic and pastoral support, and includes four course units in each of Years 1 and 2, with teaching followed by assessment. Year 3 is the dissertation for the MSc award, with a research proposal and a dissertation supervisor.
Manchester states that students tailor their studies through one of three specialist pathways: Emergency Medical Response, Humanitarian Response, or Disaster Management. The course focuses on Humanitarian Response as part of its speciality, and it is designed in collaboration with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
The minimum requirements for admission in MSC Global Health Humanitarian Response at University of Manchester for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:
Note: Please check the university website in the link below.
We require a Lower Second Class Bachelor's degree or the overseas equivalent, although each application is judged on its own merits and exceptions to this entry requirement may be made.
Applicants who do not have a Bachelor's degree or the overseas equivalent may apply if they can demonstrate (via a personal statement) that they can communicate clearly, are highly motivated, and have experience of prior learning.
An overall grade of 7.0 in IELTS with 7.0 in writing an no skill below 6.5 is required or 100+ in the TOEFL iBT with a minimum writing score of 25 and no skill below 22.
Please check detail of study units at https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/masters/courses/list/21351/msc-global-health-humanitarian-response
85 fully funded scholarships are listed for UK. See UK scholarships.