MSc Environmental Health  MSc Environmental Health King's College London ../webroot/files/Institutions/cover_photo/1564036602king-college-london.jpg

Programme description - Access to the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health professional exams and subsequently the environmental health profession. - Optional professional placement during the programme. - Most of the course is taught by chartered environmental health practitioners. This MSc is designed to examine those elements of our environment that affect human health. A risk-based approach runs throughout the programme and this will encourage you to develop prioritised interventions and solutions. As well as promoting a risk-based approach we also focus on developing intervention strategies within a wider public health context. You will be encouraged throughout to view environmental health as an integrated approach to health protection and improvement rather than as a series of unconnected activities. The programme is intentionally vocational and will prepare you for employment in a range of environmental health disciplines. We begin by examining some of the fundamental technical, legal and social issues that underlie environmental health practice. In parallel we look at the theoretical basis of risk and risk assessment, exploring how risk is managed in different settings drawn from the field of environment health and from other disciplines. We then examine the role performed by the environmental health service within the wider public health domain, exploring how environmental health practitioners interact with other health professionals. This leads to a more detailed study of the main environmental health intervention areas which comprise: pollution and environmental protection food safety and control housing and health and occupational health and safety. We then bring your technical expertise and knowledge of risk and intervention strategies together in a series of case studies which enable you to demonstrate your ability to apply environmental health solutions using a risk-based approach and taking into account the wider public health context. You will also undertake an environmental health research dissertation during the MSc programme. The work for this is mostly undertaken in the second year of the degree, but you will be invited to prepare for the dissertation module in the first year, through a full module on research methods and approaches. Material in this module on research will also contribute to your understanding of the importance of evidence-based practice. Whilst you may wish to complete the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health's portfolio of work-based learning during the two years of the MSc programme, you may instead decide to undertake the portfolio after you graduate. You may simply decide to do some of the portfolio before and some after you graduate. Any of these are fine as the CIEH portfolio of work-based learning does not form part of the King's MSc award and those who wish to undertake the CIEH portfolio of work-based learning may do so during andor after the MSc course at King's.