BSc (Hons) Public Health Bachelor's degree at East London

Gain essential skills to boost your career prospects, particularly for roles connected to health and wellbeing fields. You'll engage with digital platforms, industry-led workshops, and real-world tasks to build confidence in communication, research, and digital professionalism. Throughout, you'll map your career aspirations, develop a strong online presence, and learn to identify the skills employers seek. With support from academic staff and career coaches, you'll reflect on your personal stren

Prepare for success in higher education by developing the academic, personal, and professional skills needed for your studies and beyond. You'll learn effective time management, research strategies, digital proficiency, and academic writing techniques, with a strong focus on reflective learning and goal setting. Through interactive workshops, group discussions, and guided independent study, you'll gain confidence in using university systems, working collaboratively, and responding to feedback. T

Practical maths skills are essential across health and education careers. You'll explore statistics, probability, and basic financial numeracy, learning how to apply them to real workplace scenarios. Workshops, tutorials, and digital practice sessions will build your ability to analyse data accurately and confidently. Special emphasis is placed on using tools like spreadsheets and calculators within healthcare and education settings. As you sharpen your mathematical reasoning, you'll prepare for

Essential communication skills underpin success at university and beyond. This module focuses on developing your oral, written, and interpersonal abilities, preparing you to adapt your communication style to different academic and professional contexts. You'll explore contemporary issues in media and communication, build your active listening skills, and learn how to structure persuasive arguments. Group work and interactive workshops provide a supportive environment to practise and refine your

Public health knowledge is central to addressing today's global challenges. This module immerses you in the principles of public health, epidemiology, disease patterns, and healthcare systems. Alongside theoretical exploration, you'll complete a year-long practical project, building skills in project management, teamwork, and presentation. Case studies and applied research activities help you connect academic study to real-world public health issues, strengthening both your academic and professi

In this module, you will learn how to identify and critically analyse key areas of health promotion theories and models. You will explore debates, ideas and key aspects of health promotion practice and approaches to health promotion. You will investigate communication and evaluation strategies in health promotion. You will use digital media and group work resources for communication and campaigns.

This module will offer you an introduction to the foundational concepts of public health and health and well-being. This will include the historical development of the NHS and Public Health. The Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework was launched as a national framework in 2016 as a guide to the functions and activities undertaken by the Public Health workforce. You will explore the Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework and how the framework shapes the development and implementation

This module will provide you with the opportunity to identify the skills, competencies and experience required for employment and employability and how employability and industry connections are implemented in the curriculum. You will begin to recognise the areas for your own personal professional development (including emotional, social, physical, cultural and cognitive intelligences) through taught and workshop activity. Central to the developmental process is for each student to cultivate the

This module encourages you to think beyond your common-sense understanding of the world and beyond the familiar biomedical framework of health and illness. By understanding different cultural approaches and unpacking both insider and outsider viewpoints, you will discover how health means different things to different people and institutions. Taking a life cycle approach, you will explore these various meaning-making processes through the study of experiences common to all humans, such as birth

The module aims to introduce you to the concepts of evidence, causation, research, study designs and the research process in public health. You will learn to search for appropriate reports of research in a range of databases. In this module, you will acquire the skills required to find, select, read and critically analyse research in the context of current knowledge in public health.

The purpose of this module is to develop your knowledge and understanding of quantitative health data and statistics. On completion of this module, you will be able to interpret health statistics, perform calculations using appropriate software and critically evaluate and interpret published reports of statistical health data. In your second year, you'll take a practical module, using our computer labs to access and analyse health data before presenting an epidemiological report on it. You will

This module will build on what you have learned about the role and function of public health at level 4. You will further examine the role of public health globally, nationally and locally and gain an appreciation of how these interact. You will gain an understanding of the wider system of Health and Social Care, the position of public health within it and the critical role it plays in the health of the nation. This will be underpinned by robust policy examples both past and present. The three d

This module will enable you to develop an awareness of current contemporary public health challenges. You will critically examine the emergence of contemporary public health challenges and evaluate the impact of these issues on service users and providers. The module will enable you to consider responses to current health challenges and evaluate relevant evidence surrounding these to further your professional development ensuring inclusive health and wellbeing of the population.

This module will equip you with the skills necessary to understand the purpose, use and collection of public health information (e.g. primary and secondary data sources, routine data). The module will equip you with the ability to apply basic epidemiological principles in practical situations, and with the skills to access and manipulate data, run analyses, present and interpret the results and report your findings. You will learn the steps in the surveillance cycle and be introduced to processe

This module will enable you to build on your knowledge and skills relating to research evidence and the research process. You will develop a critical approach to the selection of appropriate research processes, methods, and analytical skills to address appropriate research problems. The module will enable you to generate an appropriate research question and align this with the relevant methods of data collection, analysis, synthesis and interpretation, in order to generate a research proposal.

This module will introduce you to one of the three pillars of public health, health protection, and its connection with the global goals of sustainability. Health protection is a term used to describe the activities that are aimed to protect individuals, groups and populations from the impact of infectious diseases, radiation, chemical and environmental hazards. For some of these threats, geographic borders are becoming less relevant and we face issues that were previously resolved or confined t

Looking at community issues locally in the UK as well as globally through development initiatives, you will have the opportunity to develop a deep theoretical and practical knowledge about communities and how to facilitate engagement with, and alongside, them. Starting from the perspective that communities are the experts over their own lives, this module examines power structures that perpetuate powerlessness and as such promotes the use of participatory methods that advance empowerment process