Overview
The Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health is delivered full-time over 10 months. The programme allows students to specialise in a specific public health pathway.
The Postgraduate Diploma has three pathways as follows:
Pathway 1: Health Promotion
Pathway 2: Health Protection
Pathway 3: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Students take core modules to the value of 35 credits and modules to the value of 25 credits from their chosen pathway. Pathway preferences will need to be chosen in consultation with the Programme Director.
Exit award: Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health (NFQ Level 9, Minor award)
Upon successful completion and passing of core modules to the value of 30 credits (to include EH6025, EH6026, EH6027 and EH6157), students may opt to exit the programme and be conferred with a Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health. A student who subsequently applies to continue to the Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health or Master of Public Health must do so within five years from the date of successful completion of the Certificate Examinations.
Programme Requirements
For information about modules, module choice, options and credit weightings, please go to Programme Requirements.
Programme Requirements
Module List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| |
| EH6025 | Principles and Practice of Public Health | 10 |
| EH6026 | Applied Research for Public Health | 10 |
| EH6027 | Public Health Informatics | 5 |
| EH6028 | Leadership in Public Health | 5 |
| EH6157 | Qualitative Research in Public Health 1 | 5 |
| 25 |
| |
| Health Promotion: Concepts, Principles and Practices (10) | |
| Public Health and Behavioural Change (5) | |
| Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (5) | |
| Global and Environmental Health (5) | |
| |
| The Principles and Practice of Multi-disciplinary Health Protection (10) | |
| Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (5) | |
| Global and Environmental Health (5) | |
| Principles of Microbiology (Online) (5) | |
| |
| Advanced Epidemiology (10) | |
| Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (5) | |
| Advanced Biostatistics (5) | |
| Survival Analysis (5) | |
| Total Credits | 60 |
Examinations
Full details and regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be contained in the Marks and Standards Book and for each module in the Book of Modules.
Programme Learning Outcomes
Programme Learning Outcomes for Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health (NFQ Level 9, Major award)
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
1
1-1
Critically analyse theories and issues related to public health;
1-2
2
Construct arguments around the social, political and economic factors determining the health of populations;
1-3
3
Demonstrate competence in the key underpinning disciplines and theories of public health including epidemiology, communicable diseases including health care associated infections, biostatistics, social and behavioural sciences and social policy;
1-4
4
Analyse and synthesise evidence and apply it to public health;
1-5
5
Demonstrate enhanced knowledge in the chosen specialist pathway (health promotion, health protection, epidemiology and biostatistics).
