Placement projects
During Trinity Term, students undertake a funded placement project in a global health project which may be based in or related to a resource limited setting. Placement projects truly are course capstones, calling upon the skills and topics students cover during the first two terms of the course.
Upon completion of their placement project, students will be able to:
- apply knowledge and skills gained in first two terms to a global health research project
- experience the challenges and opportunities of conducting real research
- work as a productive member of a research team
- appropriately contextualise global health research (i.e. learn about the context within which the research is conducted)
The research project placement will then form the basis of each student’s dissertation (in the form of a draft publication appropriate for submission to a peer-reviewed journal).
PLACEMENT OPTIONS
A comprehensive list of options will be offered to students with projects catering to a wide spectrum interest and based in a plethora of settings. Please consult the table below providing an overview of some of the projects offered in prior years.
| Placement project | Placement country |
|---|---|
| Improving the global diagnostic infrastructure for brain health - what would it cost? | Germany |
| Modelling infectious disease dynamics incorporating age structure and environmental factors: advancing data-driven insights for public health | Ethiopia |
| Pharmacometric evaluation of drugs for neglected tropical diseases | Thailand |
| Assessing the impact of M72/AS01E vaccination on tuberculosis outcomes in Cambodia | Singapore |
| Understanding the spatial and temporal distribution of diarrhoea cases across Thailand | Thailand |
| Unveiling the heterogeneity of somatic mutations in cancer and their functional variability in transcriptional regulation | UK |
| Machine learning for predicting severe febrile illness in rural southeast Asia | Thailand |
| Investigating the impact of a model-based decision support tool in informing policy change for the management of malnutrition | Japan |
| Optimising maternal care pathways of care | UK |
| Assessing the incremental impact of malaria vaccines with seasonal malaria chemoprevention applied to ecological settings in Cameroon | South Africa |
| Potential contribution of improving child health towards reducing illness, antibiotic use, and antibiotic resistance in Vietnam | Vietnam |
| Air travel associated risk of arboviral importation in continental Portugal | Portugal |
| Cost-effective analysis of the Electronic clinical Decision support for Acute fever Management (EDAM) | Thailand |
Note that the list of projects on offer changes year on year and we will not guarantee that a project will be available to you for a given subject or in a specific country.
Students who wish to study a particular topic are encouraged to propose a bespoke placement project. This would entail procuring engagement from a senior academic willing to support such a line of research and approval by the course director.
FUNDING
The MSc MGH programme covers the costs of each student placement during Trinity Term. This includes covering reasonable costs associated with travel vaccinations, visa applications, flights or train/bus if placement is elsewhere in the UK, plus non-Oxford accommodation, and relevant research costs. Students will be responsible for their own daily subsistence costs as they do whilst at Oxford.