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How does QMUL equip students with the skills and knowledge to navigate such issues?
Dr Andrew Harmer - In addition to the knowledge, and if you come on the program, you will get to look at lots of different topics. And so it's interdisciplinary, and it's multidisciplinary. So you will get the chance to look at health systems and health inequalities and epidemiology and statistics, planetary health, global health governance, and disease management. And because you get exposed to all of these different topics, you can start to make connections. And you can start to join the dots. And I think that's a really important skill. And that's something that you will learn and get better at as you work through our program.
How does the course provide insights into current themes related to the study of Global Public Health?
10 or 15 academics working on the program at any one time. And they come from different parts of the world. So we have a number of academics in South Asia and different parts of Europe and North America. But you get to meet with them in real time on a webinar every week. And you also get to engage with academics through online forums. And they're all working at universities around the world. They've all been working on the program for a number of years.
And they have a wealth of information and experience and not just in the knowledge, but also in their teaching expertise as well. And so you get to benefit from that on each of the modules that we run. We also have other activities that some of our tutors run, which I might talk about later. But for example, last year, we ran a two-day workshop where all of our the students that had just completed their dissertations, they were given the opportunity to present their findings online. And so again, that's something which our tutors can manage. And they draw on their own experiences of running those kind of sessions.