MPH Public Health Nutrition

at University College Dublin

Core Modules Stage 1
 

• Fundamentals of Epidemiology

  PHPS40010
   

• Public Health Practice and Policy

  PHPS40040
   

• Nutritional Epidemiology

  PHPS40050
   

• Biostatistics I

  PHPS40190
   

• Communicable Disease Epidemiology

  PHPS40200
   

• One Health

  PHPS40230
   

• Health Promotion

  PHPS40300
   

• Non Communicable Disease Epidemiology

  PHPS40370
   

• SDGs and Global Health

  PHPS40430
   

• Risk Perception, Communication and Behavior Changes

  PHPS40450
   

• Applied Research Methods, Data Management & Analysis with SPSS

  PHPS40750
   

• Sociology&Social Epidemiology

  PHPS40850
   

• MPH Dissertation

  PHPS41140

Option Modules Stage 1
 

• Risk Analysis in Food Safety

  PHPS40610
   

• Principles of Health Financing and Management

  PHPS40860

This programme is intended for Graduates of Health Science degree programmes (Medicine, Dentistry, Public Health, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Nutrition, Nursing, or other), Science degree programmes (Biology, Biochemistry, Food Science, Physiology, Pharmacology, or other) or Social Science degree programmes (Psychology, Sociology, Economics, or other) preferably with a 2.1 Award or higher. Awards of 2:2 or less may be considered with additional suitability credentials.  Applicants will be required to provide evidence of the highest level of mathematics achieved in prior education.
 

• Applicants to this programme should apply to the general MPH programme. Further information is available online.

• Applicants whose first language is not English must also demonstrate English language proficiency of IELTS 7.0 (no band less than 6.5 in each element), or equivalent.

• These are the minimum entry requirements – additional criteria may be requested for some programmes 

TOEFL
 

• Taught Master's: A minimum score of 100 is required in the Internet based TOEFL (iBT) with a score of at least 20 in each section.

Non-EU fees for academic year 2022/23 are:
 

• € 20360

As UCD has a globally acclaimed reputation in the area of Public Health, you will gain the skills and knowledge necessary to thrive in a wide range of careers in the Public Health sector.

MPH Graduates include, for example:
 

• Consultants in Public Health Medicine

• University Professors

• Ministry of Health Medical Officers.