Congratulations on your offer to study a Public Health degree in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. We're thrilled to welcome you and look forward to you joining our community.

Explore the content below for useful tips and information to help you prepare for your studies and get a feel for your course. There are so many ways you can keep connected over the next few months including chatting to both staff and students and attending events.

You will also find any upcoming events listed below, so please do check back for updates.

• Explore our content below to find out more about our Public Health course.
• Watch a recording of our online Information Session below.
• Chat 1-2-1 with one of our current students on unibuddy.
• Got a question? Chat to Dr Assaf Givati on Unibuddy
• Take an online tour of our Guy's Campus - home of our Public Health course
• Take a look at some further information below for offer holders such as our Accommodation guide and pre-sessional English language programmes.

Watch Dr Assaf Givati deliver an overview of Public Health MSc. This session was recorded on 2 December 2024.

Watch a recording of the Careers and Student Experience Event for postgraduate offer holders. Hear from the panel consisting of staff from the faculty as well as current students. This event took place on 3 June 2024.

Please note: Captions for this video have been auto-generated and will be reviewed soon.

Watch a day in the life video of a Public Health MPH student to gain an insight to what a typical day studying at King's College London looks like. 

Filmed by Elysia Komen, Public Health MPH student

Required modules

You are required to take the following modules. If you are studying part-time, you will take the Health Economics, and Healthcare Public Health modules in Year 2.

• Public Health and Primary Care Dissertation (60 credits)
• Basic Epidemiology & Statistics for Public Health (15 credits)
• Prevention & Control of Communicable Disease (15 credits)
• Social Research Methods for Public Health (15 credits)
• Health Promotion and Health Improvement (15 Credits)
• Healthcare Public Health (15 credits)
• Health Economics (15 credits)

Optional modules

In addition, full-time students are required to take two optional modules in Year 1 to bring their total credits for the year to 180 credits from a range of optional modules. Part-time students are required to take two optional modules to bring their total for Year 2 to 180 credits. Optional modules typically include:

• Further Epidemiology & Statistics for Public Health (15 credits)
• Delivering Public Health in Primary Care: from Theory to Practice (15 credits)
• Sociology of Health & Illness (15 credits)
• Global Public Health (15 credits)
• Principles of Health Informatics (15 credits)
• Conflict and Health (15 credits)
• Global Health and Local Practice (15 credits)
• Health Systems Strengthening (15 credits)

You can view the core reading list for Public Health MPH core modules here.