Congratulations on your offer to study Global Health MSc in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. We're thrilled to welcome you and look forward to you joining our community.

Explore the content below for useful tips and information to help you prepare for your studies and get a feel for your course. There are so many ways you can keep connected over the next few months including chatting to both staff and students and attending events.

You will also find upcoming events listed below, so please do keep checking back for updates.

• Explore our content below to find out more about our Global Health MSc.
• View essential information about the course in the student pre-enrolment information pack.
• Watch a recording of our Online Information Session below.
• Got a question? Ask Programme Director Professor Andy Leather.
• Chat 1-2-1 with one of our current students on unibuddy.
• Take an online tour of our Guy's Campus - home of our Global Health MSc.
• Take a look at some further information below for offer holders such as our Accommodation guide and pre-sessional English language programmes.

Find all the key information you need for the Global Health MSc course in the student pre-enrolment information pack.

Watch Professor Andrew Leather deliver an overview of Global Health MSc. This session was recorded on 4 December 2024.

Watch a recording of the Careers and Student Experience Event for postgraduate offer holders. Hear from the panel consisting of staff from the faculty as well as current students. This event took place on 3 June 2024.

Please note: Captions for this video have been auto-generated and will be reviewed soon.

Watch a day in the life video of a postgraduate student in the Faculty of life Sciences & Medicine.

Filmed by Elysia Komen, Public Health MPH student

Population Health Sciences

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Find out more about our School

Discover more about our School of Life Course & Population Sciences, home to our Global Health MSc.

King's Global Health Partnerships

Read more about our partnerships here.

News

Read about the work of our students with the Zambian government to develop breast and cervical cancer services.

Required modules

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 180 credits. You are required to study the following modules:

• Global Burden of Disease (15 credits)
• Health Systems & Policy (15 credits)
• International Development and Health (15 credits)
• Research Methodology in Global Health (15 credits)
• Health Systems Strengthening (15 credits)
• Global Health Dissertation (60 credits)

Optional modules

Additionally, you are required to study modules from a range of options, which typically will include:

• Conflict & Health (15 credits)
• Data Manipulation and Management (15 credits)
• Decolonising Research Methods for Global Health (15 credits)
• Delivering Public Health in Primary Care (15 credits)
• Designing Qualitative Research for Social Science and Health (15 credits)
• Designing Quantitative Research for Social Science and Health (15 credits)
• Global Health Ethics (15 credits)
• Global Health in Local Practice (15 credits)
• Principles of Health Informatics (15 credits)
• Researching Vulnerable Populations (15 credits)
• Risk Management and Governance (15 credits)
• Sociology of Health and Illness (15 credits)
• Vulnerability, Development and Disasters (15 credits)
• Women and Children’s Global Health (15 credits)

Hear from Zhuo

Hear from current Global Health MSc student Zhuo Li about studying at King's

Hear from Sal

Current Global Health MSc student Sal Griffiths shares her experience about studying at King's

Hear from Kaoi

Global Health MSc student Kaoi Nakasa explains why they chose Global Health MSc at King's.