Course Outline
To meet the increasing demand for highly trained public health specialists we are offering a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Health designed to prepare you to investigate, evaluate and address public health challenges, whatever your professional background. Our Post Graduate Diploma in Public Health programme will equip you with the core knowledge and specialized skills necessary to make a real difference in public health.
This Postgraduate Diploma runs over 10 months and lectures are delivered on Thursdays (3pm to 9pm) and Fridays (9am to 5pm).
The Postgraduate Diploma has three pathways as follows:
Pathway 1: Health Promotion
Pathway 2: Health Protection
Pathway 3: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
In Semester 1 you will take core modules to the value of 30 credits. In Semester II you can choose one of the pathways and undertake modules to the value of 30 credits (25 credits from the chosen pathway and a 5 credit core module).
Students take 60 credits as follows:
Semester 1:
Core Modules - All pathways
Students take 30 credits as follows:
EH6025 Principles and Practice of Public Health (10 credits)
EH6026 Applied Research for Public Health (10 credits)
EH6027 Public Health Informatics (5 credits)
EH6091 Graduate Information Literacy Skills (5 credits)
Semester 2:
Core Module - All pathways
EH6028 Leadership in Public Health (5 credits)
Pathways (Pathway preferences will need to be chosen in consultation with the Programme Director)
Pathway 1: Health Promotion
Students take 25 credits as follows:
EH6029 Health Promotion: Concepts, Principles and Practice (10 credits)
EH6039 Public Health and Behavioural Change (5 credits)
EH6045 Practice Portfolio - Health Promotion (5 credits)
PLUS 5 credits from the following:
EH6046 Global and Environmental Health (5 credits)
SS6017 Critical Public Health (5 credits)
Pathway 2: Health Protection
Students take 25 credits as follows:
EH6019 The Principles and Practice of Multi-disciplinary Health Protection (10 credits)
EH6035 Practice Portfolio (5 credits)
EH6046 Global and Environmental Health (5 credits)
MB6000 Microbiology for Health Protection (5 credits)
Pathway 3: Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Students take 25 credits as follows:
EH6031 Advanced Epidemiology (10 credits)
EH6044 Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (5 credits)
ST6011 Advanced Biostatistics (5 credits)
ST6012 Survival Analysis (5 credits)
Modules
Further details on the modules listed above can be found in our book of modules. Any modules listed above are indicative of the current set of modules for this course but are subject to change from year to year.
https://www.ucc.ie/admin/registrar/modules/