MSc in Health and International Development
Programme Code: TMHEINDE
Department: International Development
For students starting this programme of study in 2023/24
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules
Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three full units, non-credit-bearing course DV445 and a dissertation as shown.
Students who choose to concentrate their electives and dissertation in a certain topic area may elect to have a specialism in "African Development,” “Population Studies,” or “Applied Development Economics” attached to their degree certificate and transcript. To obtain the specialism indication, students must meet the criteria below.
African Development: students must take DV418 and DV435, and their dissertation topic must be approved as being appropriate for this specialism.
Population Studies: students must take two half units from DV444, DV456 or DV476, and their dissertation topic must be approved as being appropriate for this specialism.
Applied Development Economics: Students to take at least two courses from DV490, DV491, DV492, and DV494 and their dissertation topic must be approved as being appropriate for this specialism. Alternatively, students must take three courses from DV490, DV491, DV492, and DV494 (this second route will require HID Programme Director approval on an individual case-by-case basis).
If no such election is made, the degree certificate will state “Health and International Development” without further specification.
Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.
Paper |
Course number, title (unit value) | |
Paper 1 |
DV442 Key Issues in Development Studies (0.5) and DV458 Key issues in Global Health and Development (0.5) | |
Paper 2 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
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DV411 Population, Development and Environment: an Analytical Approach (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
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DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development (0.5) | |
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DV444 Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response (0.5) # | |
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DV453 International Development Consultancy Project (0.5) | |
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DV456 Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections (0.5) # | |
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DV457 Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5) | |
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DV465 Labour, Social Services and Development (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
Paper 3 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
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DV407 Poverty (0.5) | |
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DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5) # | |
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DV415 Global Environmental Governance (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
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DV418 African Development (0.5) | |
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DV420 Complex Emergencies (0.5) | |
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DV424 International Institutions and Late Development (0.5) | |
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DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5) | |
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DV433 The Informal Economy and Development (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
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DV434 Human Security (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
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DV435 African Political Economy (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
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DV447 Youth and Gendered Violence (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25) | |
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DV454 Gender, labour markets and social change in the Global South: theory, evidence, public action (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
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DV455 Advocacy, Campaigning and Grassroots Activism (0.5) | |
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DV460 Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science: A modern approach to case study inference (0.5) # (not available 2024/25) | |
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DV462 Forced Migration and Refugees (0.5) | |
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DV463 Civil society, security and development (0.5) (withdrawn 2024/25) | |
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DV464 Democracy and Development (0.5) | |
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DV472 Covid-19 pandemic: health, socio-economic and political implications for development (Special Topics in International Development) (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
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DV476 Population Analysis: Methods and Models (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25) | |
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DV480 Transforming Society: Revolutions, Evolutions and Colonialism (0.5) # | |
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DV483 Information Communication Technologies and Socio-economic Development (0.5) | |
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DV490 Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development (0.5) # | |
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DV491 Economic Development Policy II: Microeconomic Analysis (0.5) # | |
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DV492 Economic Development Policy III: Government Policy Analysis (0.5) # | |
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DV494 Foundations of Applied Econometrics for Economic Development Policy (0.5) # | |
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GY431 Cities, People and Poverty in the South (0.5) # (not available 2024/25) | |
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HP404 Global Health Policy: Institutions, Actors and Politics (0.5) | |
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HP405 Social Determinants of Health (0.5) | |
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HP412 Global Health Security (0.5) | |
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HP421 Economic Analysis for Health Policy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (0.5) | |
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HP435 Global Access to Medicines (0.5) | |
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MY405 Research Design for Policy and Programme Evaluation (0.5) | |
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PB422 Health Communication (0.5) (withdrawn 2024/25) | |
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Any other course approved by tutor by special permission only. | |
Paper 4 |
DV410 Research Design and Dissertation in International Development (1.0) | |
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DV445 Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice (0.0) | |
Paper 2 options list
DV411 Population, Development and Environment: an Analytical Approach (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development (0.5) | |
DV444 Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response (0.5) # | |
DV453 International Development Consultancy Project (0.5) | |
DV456 Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections (0.5) # | |
DV457 Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation (0.5) | |
DV465 Labour, Social Services and Development (0.5) (not available 2024/25) | |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options
# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.
It is not always possible to offer students a place on each of their preferred courses. This is particularly the case where courses are offered outside the Department of International Development (ie not prefixed with 'DV').
Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.