Dr Jessica R Hawkins, Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies & Undergraduate Programme Director The start of the new academic year is upon us. For those of you entering your final year of your undergraduate degree, dissertations will be making its presence felt. For...
Category: Online Global Health
Celebrating the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020: Meet Kirsty
Kirsty Lowe is a midwife and Global Health MSc student. She shares how her experience of being deployed by UK-MED with the UK Emergency Medical Team to the Diphtheria outbreak in Bangladesh inspired her to study the course.What course did you choose to study at the...
Student Spotlight: Richard Rohleder
Richard (Rick) Rohleder is a recent, international graduate of the online MSc in Global Health programme. Initially, Rick enrolled into the postgraduate certificate, however after delving into the curriculum, his aspirations changed and he completed the full...
Making the impossible possible? A brief look at one busy bee full-time professional trying to prove everyone wrong
This blog has been written by Jessica Holterhof, a HCRI Global Health Bursary winner studying online Global Health programme.I started my professional career focusing on ecosystem conservation and disaster risk reduction, a field that barely interacts with the health...
Thinking of doing an MSc in Global Health? Here’s what I’d like you to know…
This blog was written by Jennifer Ruthe, a MSc Global Heath student.I always wanted a masters, but it wasn’t until I hit my thirties that I found an area I wanted to study. I’d been fundraising for five years by that time, mostly in health and international...
Care vs Control: the need for greater support for Home Office asylum caseworkers
This blog was written by Hannah Ellis, a student on the intercalated BSc in Global Health at HCRIAs part of my intercalation in Global Health I chose to write my dissertation on the ethical issues raised by the involvement of medical expert witnesses working with...
Reflections on conducting fieldwork in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
This blog was written by Emma Keelan, a Master's student on HCRI's online Global Health programme. When embarking on a Master’s dissertation involving a period of fieldwork, many factors need to be considered. Developing a project idea, the creation of timely and...
PG Cert in Global Health Unit 3: Community Approaches to Health
by: Tiia HaapaniemiThis is the third module of the course, and probably the one that I am most excited about, because it is making us understand the humanity behind health. I always thought that health seeking behaviour is not determined by how good the services are...
PG Cert in Global Health: Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience (testimonial)
by Joy OkaforAfter completing my first module in Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience, I discovered that I had learnt a lot in a short amount of time. It was even more amazing to discover that most of the topics and scenarios were applicable to my local environment and...
PG Cert in Global Health: Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience
by Ahmed Siyah The module Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience served as a good introduction to the PG Certificate in Global Health course. It laid many basic concepts of disease causation and propagation. It brought home the message that health is not achieved only...