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PHPS41300

Academic Year 2025/2026

Global Public Health (PHPS41300)

Subject:
Public Health & Population Sci
College:
Health & Agricultural Sciences
School:
Public Hlth, Phys & Sports Sci
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Dr Helen Kelly
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

The aim of the module is to provide students with practical skills in public health programme planning in the context of global health challenges. Module content will be a mix of skills-based lectures (how to write a proposal, conduct a situation analysis, plan an intervention/planning cycle, monitoring and evaluation, costing and budgeting); and disease/intervention based topic lectures focussed on current global health challenges using examples from different settings (geographical, epidemiological, resource-level) to illustrate particular aspects of public health programmes globally.
The assessment is a group exercise, and marks will be awarded both to individuals and to groups. The aim is to write a proposal to be submitted to an external funding agency to set-up a 3-year control programme to address one of the following public health challenges with a maximum budget limit of €10 million.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the module a student will be able to:
1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the principles underlying control of global health challenges
2. Understand drivers of inequalities in global health outcomes and access to healthcare
3. Develop and apply practical skills in public health programme planning in the context of global health challenges
4. Conduct a situational analysis, and select (provide rationale) from a variety of available intervention (evidence based) options;
5. Establish programmatic aims and objectives
6. Plan an intervention (including resource planning) and establish a monitoring and evaluation framework (theory of change/logframe)
7. Critically assess sustainability, the role of development assistance and donor aid funding

Indicative Module Content:

• Governance of GPH, International Agencies and the UN SDGs
• Health systems, financing and universal health coverage (UHC)
• Proposal writing and budgeting for a public health programme
• Conducting a situational and stakeholder analysis
• Options appraisal, setting programme goals and objectives and theory of change
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Climate Change & Global Health
• Decolonization of global health; equitable partnerships, capacity building and sustainable solutions to GH challenges
• Topical lectures form experts involved in disease control programmes will be delivered throughout the module.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

14
Seminar (or Webinar)

5
Practical

6
Autonomous Student Learning

75
Total

100

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Students will learn through lectures, seminar, tutorial and assignments.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Exam (In-person): MCQ in persona t end of module (week 12) Week 12 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
30
 No
Group Work Assignment: Group work assignment Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11, Week 12 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
70
 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

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Name Role
Assoc Professor Mary Codd Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Sara Dada Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Professor Patricia Fitzpatrick Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Assoc Professor Celine Murrin Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Assoc Professor Carla Perrotta Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dimuthu Rathnayake Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Bianca van Bavel Lecturer / Co-Lecturer

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 23 Wed 13:00 - 14:50
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 22, 24, 25, 32 Wed 13:00 - 14:50
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 26, 29, 30, 31 Wed 13:00 - 14:50
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 33 Wed 13:00 - 14:50
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