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Public health and healthcare courses

Public health and healthcare courses

Our public health and healthcare courses at the University of West London have inspiring expert staff, innovative teaching resources and close links with providers.

With campuses in West London and Reading, we can offer you flexible, evidence-based and professionally-attuned education in your specialist area.

In addition to the undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare degrees and public health courses outlined below, we offer pre-registration and post-registration courses in nursing and midwifery. You may also wish to browse our wide range of CPDs developed in partnership with NHS Trusts.

Browse our healthcare courses below, and discover what a healthcare degree or public health degree can offer you.

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Public health and healthcare undergraduate courses

Public health and healthcare postgraduate courses

Course videos

Are you passionate about getting health messages out to the wider society? Do you want to see large populations lead healthier, fuller lives? 

With this public health course, you'll learn how to protect, promote, and improve the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities in the UK and abroad.

Find out more in our course video.

Facilities

Simulation Centre at the University of West London

Simulation centres

Our simulation centres at our West London campus and the Berkshire Institute for Health accurately recreate today's healthcare settings and contain a host of innovative teaching resources.

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High-tech birthing simulator

Advanced simulators, such as Aries and Lucina, enable you to develop the clinical skills, knowledge and decision-making needed to deliver excellent care.

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Community Room

The Community Room (West London campus) enables us to recreate the home environment in role-play and other active-learning sessions.

Where can a public health degree take me?

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Job roles

Public health and healthcare graduates will be ideally placed to build a career in the public, private and voluntary sectors. These include public health jobs and roles in:

  • social care
  • housing and leisure departments in local councils or national agencies; in human resources departments in medium to large companies focusing on staff wellbeing; in community projects, run by charities, supporting local people to improve their own health and wellbeing; working in fundraising, research, project management and directly with communities here and abroad.
  • Public Health England
  • Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) such as Hera or WaterAid
  • voluntary organisations
  • media relations or the World Health Organization (WHO)

Within these organisations, you could work as a:

  • health adviser
  • training facilitator
  • project manager
  • programme officer.