Global Mental Health

MSc

Part Time, Full Time

| Admissions status: Open

STRUCTURE OVERVIEW

Core programme content

Fundamentals of Global Mental Health
Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health
Principles of Psychiatric Research & Psychiatric Epidemiology
Scaling up Services for Mental, Neurological and Substance Abuse Disorders in Low Resource Settings
Research & Evidence into Practice: Applying the Principles of Global Mental Health

Indicative non-core content

Choose from a wide selection, including:

Conflict and Health
Social Psychiatry
Health Care Evaluation

FORMAT AND ASSESSMENT

Students must take eight modules, five of which are compulsory, and complete a 10,000 word project report.

KEY FACTS

Programme leader/s

Dr Melanie Abas (King's College London); Dr Alex Cohen (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)

Awarding institution

King's College London and University of London

Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)

UK 180/ECTS 90

Duration

One year FT; two years PT

Location

King's Denmark Hill Campus and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Student destinations

We anticipate that graduates will enter careers in national mental health policy and planning, epidemiological and mental health services research, and advisory and advocacy roles in governments, international agencies and non-governmental organisations.

Year of entry 2012

Offered by

Institute of Psychiatry

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