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Masters Global Mental Health MSc

New for 2012 - apply by 31 July 2012

This course aims to provide people with the knowledge and skills to initiate, develop and oversee mental health policies and/or programmes in low-resource settings, and to conduct and critically evaluate research on global mental health. These skills and knowledge will make it possible for students to make valuable contributions in the domains of research, public health, policy and practice as they relate to the discipline of global mental health. 

Applications for this course will be processed by King's College London, not by LSHTM. Please click here for further details and to apply online.  

Please note that the closing date for new applications is now 31 July 2012.

Course Directors: Dr Alex Cohen (LSHTM) and Dr Melanie Abas (King's College London - Institute of Psychiatry)

This is a joint programme provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and King's College London - Institute of Psychiatry.

We anticipate that graduates will enter careers in national mental health policy and planning, epidemiological and mental health services research, and advisory and advocacy roles in governments, international agencies and non-governmental organisations.

Course Duration

Full-time for one calendar year and part-time or split study for 2 calendar years.

Objectives

By the end of the course, students will able to:

  • demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the mental health challenges facing low resource settings;
  • devise locally appropriate and feasible strategies to reduce the burden of mental disorders;
  • develop research protocols to investigate key issues in global mental health including epidemiological, intervention- and policy-related questions, and
  • apply research skills to monitor and evaluate mental health programmes.

Course outline - brief outline detailing the structure of the course between LSHTM and IoP. 

Structure

Students must complete eight modules, five of which are "core" (i.e. compulsory), pass two written examinations, and pass a project report of up to 10,000 words.

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All participants take:

Term 1:

  • Required 1-week orientation on studying at LSHTM and IoP, sessions on key computing and study skills

Core modules at LSHTM:

  • Fundamentals in Global Mental Health
  • Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health

Core module at KCL-IoP

  • Principles of Psychiatric Research and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Term 2

Core modules at LSHTM:

  • Scaling up services for Mental, Neurological, and Substance Abuse Disorders in low-resource settings (D1 slot).

Choice of 3 other modules from LSHTM and/or KCL-IoP

LSHTM

KCL-IoP

 

   C1 Slot (Mon to Wed lunchtime)

  • Health Care Evaluation
  • Primary Health Care: Principles, Applications and Challenges
  • Study Design: Writing a Study Proposal
  • Health Promotion Approaches and Methods
  • Research Design & Analysis
  • Economic Analysis for Health Policy

 

 

   Block A (Mon)

  • Social Psychiatry
  • Systematic Review in Mental Health
  • Measurement in Mental Health Service

 

   C2 Slot (Wed afternoon to Fri)

  • Drug, Alcohol, Tobacco Use & Public Health
  • Conflict and Health
  • Health systems
  • Design & Analysis of Epidemiological Studies
  • Qualitative Methodologies
  • Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
  • Health Systems

 

 

   Block B (Thur-Fri)

  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Advanced Statistical Methods in Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Psychiatric Genetics

 

 

   D1 Slot (Mon to Wed lunchtime)

  • Scaling up services for mental, neurological, and substance abuse disorders in low- and middle-income countries

 

 

   Block C (Mon)

            N/A

 

   D2  Slot (Wed afternoon to Fri)

  • Ethics, Public Health & Human Rights
  • Globalisation & Health
  • Reviewing the Literature

 

   Block D (Thur)

  • Mental Health Economic Evaluation

Term 3

Core module at KCL-IoP (Block E)

  • Research and Evidence into Practice: Applying the Principles of Global Mental Health

Project Report

Over the summer, students will complete a project and write a report of a maximum of 10,000 words.  The report is due at the beginning of September.

Entrance Requirements

The normal minimum entrance qualification for registration at LSHTM/KCL-IoP on a Masters programme is at least an upper second-class Honours degree of a UK university, or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard, or a registerable qualification in medicine, appropriate to the programme.  A background (study, work or volunteer activities) in a mental health-related field is desirable but not essential.

Applications with an appropriate technical qualification, or equivalent qualification and experience from overseas, are also welcomed.

Apply online

This link will take you to the King's College London online application system.

Closing date

The closing date for applications is 31 July 2012.

Part-time study

All Masters courses are offered on a part-time basis over two years. Students interested in part-time study should contact the appropriate Course Organiser, via the Registry, to discuss course requirements and likely timetables, and should read the Masters degree information.

There are two ways of undertaking part-time study:

1) attending part-time throughout the two years: Students need to be available for up to four or five half days every week for 27 weeks per year. Evidence may be required to prove that applicants are able to commit this minimum period of time to their study

2) attending full-time for modules in the first two terms in Year 1 (September-March), and undertaking third term modules, exams and project in Year 2 (April - September). Such an option may be attractive to applicants who are unable to be released from employment for a continuous twelve-month period. This option is called split study.

All courses commence on 24 September 2012 and last one year for full-time study or two years for part-time study.

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