Global Health

Entry requirements

A UK 2:1 honours degree and a UK masters degree, or their international equivalents. We will also consider a UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, and significant work experience in an area relevant to your research project.

Months of entry

January, April, September, October

Course content

Undertaking a PhD in Global health at the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences & Informatics offers you the opportunity to work in a multi- and interdisciplinary way, building on your knowledge, skills, interest and passion to carry out innovative global health research that makes a new contribution to the existing knowledge base.

Research priorities include such global health issues as:

• mapping and measuring the shifting burden of global disease
• neglected and emerging tropical diseases
• infectious diseases
• noncommunicable diseases
• global palliative care
• population health
• social inequalities in health
• sexual and reproductive health
• e-health and tele-medicine
• migration and minority ethnic health
• culture
• faith and health
• translation of leading scientific advances into effective interventions