MODULE 6: CORE SKILLS IN HEALTH SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
This unique module focuses on cross-cutting topics that increase your employability as a graduate of this MSc. It runs across all three terms in parallel to the other modules, emphasising practical skills that are essential for understanding and undertaking health service diagnosis, intervention design, implementation, and evaluation, as well as the subsequent dissemination of the findings from the work to ensure tangible impact in the real world.
Topics include:
- The ethics of health system research and practice
- Leadership and teamwork skills
- Communication skills
- Academic research and technical writing skills
- Community and stakeholder engagement
- Project management skills
By the end of the module students will be able to:
- Critically appraise ethical issues in global health research and practice and apply ethical consideration to understanding and intervening in complex health systems
- Implement an understanding of team dynamics and the role of individuals to effectively work within a team and analyse and apply key management and leadership frameworks to shift team behaviours.
- Demonstrate analytical writing and spoken communication and presentation skills for health systems programmes and research
- Apply research skills to search for, screen, identify and evaluate appropriate evidence
- Compare various approaches to stakeholder engagement and public and patient engagement for complex health interventions