Global Public Health in Action

About

This innovative summer school offers a unique interdisciplinary learning experience that explores wicked global public health challenges through the lens of health, wellbeing, and sport. Set in the School of Health and Wellbeing, against the backdrop of the Commonwealth Games, the programme will harness the energy and visibility of the sporting event to inspire transformative approaches to public health.

Participants will engage in interactive lectures, hands-on workshops, guided by international experts in suicide prevention, public health, smoking cessation, nutrition, mental health, and physical wellbeing. The programme will emphasise real-world application, empowering participants to understand innovative, evidence-based interventions that promote health equity and sustainable wellbeing

Target group

Primarily targeted at students with a medical and healthcare background. However, this is not necessary and students without clinical backgrounds are welcome to apply

Course aim

This course aims to equip students with interdisciplinary knowledge and practical skills to address complex global public health challenges through innovative, evidence-based approaches, using the themes of health, wellbeing, and sport, leveraging the context of the Commonwealth Games to inspire transformative solutions that promote health equity and sustainable wellbeing.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

- Explain complex global public health challenges through an interdisciplinary lens, integrating perspectives from health and wellbeing.
- Critically appraise the literature surrounding a complex global public health challenge.
- ​Discuss evidence-based public health interventions, to improve health and wellbeing.
- Describe a complex public health problem and its potential solution in a presentation

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