Public Health, BSc (Hons)

From September 2025, this course will be delivered under the new code HU13. It equips students to address health inequalities, obesity, and promote mental, physical, and environmental health through practical strategies for disease prevention and health promotion. The curriculum explores real-world challenges, fostering skills in health interventions, disparities, and policy at local, national, and international levels to enhance health outcomes and wellbeing.Interactive learning, led by public health experts, includes hands-on sessions and interprofessional opportunities. Modules cover foundations of public health, epidemiology, policy, and a dissertation, with assessments such as essays, presentations, and projects designed to mirror professional competencies, preparing graduates for impactful careers. For details, visit the Coventry University website.

Year One In the first year, the curriculum allows you to gain a broad grounding in the discipline where you will develop knowledge to do with the foundations of public health, communication, health systems and health interventions, among others. Modules

• Foundations of Public Health

• Personal and Professional Development Skills

• Introduction to Research Methods

• Health Systems

• 21st Century Communication in Public Health

• Foundations of Health Interventions and Evaluations

Year Two In year two, you will develop more advanced knowledge and skills to do with epidemiology, health research, health promotion, health protection and public health policy, among others. Modules

• Introduction to Epidemiology

• Understanding and Using Health Research

• Health Promotion * Health Protection

• Public Health Policy and Management

• Employability in Public Health

Final Year Your final year aims to bring you to the level to enter the world of work by consolidating your knowledge and skills from year one and two. You could also work on a dissertation in an area of your interest, with the support of a mentor. Modules

• Leadership and Management for Health Care Professionals

• Contemporary Issues in Public Health

• Globalisation and Sustainable Health Financing

• Implementing Health Service Interventions and Evaluation

• Dissertation

We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated. For full module details please check the course page on the Coventry University website.