This programme provides public health professionals with an understanding of the health needs of populations and how to effectively intervene to strengthen health systems and improve health in an international context. You’ll learn to: analyse issues in health policy and health services using epidemiological and statistical tools to critically review evidence develop the essential skills to improve existing (and build new) health services programmes and management systems evaluate different strategies for disease control in order to select the most effective and feasible programmes discuss ethical issues, and adopt and justify an appropriate ethical stance. You’ll benefit from an international learning environment, with fellow-professionals from a range of countries and areas of expertise. The 12-month variant concludes with a 10,000 word dissertation that you write in your final semester which gives you space for in-depth examination of an area of public health that is relevant to your work and career plans. The 18-month variant replaces the dissertation with a research project in which you will design and carry out a study involving primary data collection to investigate a public health issue in your workplace or organization of your choice. Please contact the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences admissions team if you need further advice on which programme would be best for you.