Program Description

Why you should study this course

• The Public Health Nutrition MSc aims to equip you to consider public health nutrition dilemmas by leading a culture that engages a shared responsibility for health, developing organised efforts to promote and maintain nutrition-related health / wellbeing and encourage the informed choices of society.
• The course journey focuses on methods to assess health needs of populations, deliver disease prevention programmes, design health interventions, behaviour change techniques and disseminating evidence based public health nutrition information through a variety of media, communications, creative thinking and leadership strategies.
• You will have the opportunity to develop health promotion campaigns/projects as part of the course.
• Develop organised efforts to promote and maintain nutrition-related health and wellbeing.
• The changes within the public sector means that it is important that students are made aware of and appreciate the opportunities available to them in the private sector and the value of their transferable skills. This is addressed through the development of their own business plan and through the CMI module; upon successful completion of this module you can also gain a postgraduate Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice.

On successful completion of the course a student will be able to:

• Critically understand the underpinning science of nutrition and its application to promote health behaviour change in populations and groups.
• Use knowledge of food and nutrition, epidemiology and disease risk to critically analyse and interpret community or population nutrition needs and to evaluate how this relates to public health nutrition policy and practice.
• Comprehend public health research and policy in order to critically appraise and evaluate the research or policy considering rigour, generalizability theoretical concerns and practical issues.
• Self-reflect regarding professional development and be aware of legal and ethical obligations involved in practicing as a public health nutritionist.
• Critically consider global health issues and evaluate the importance of cultural sensitivity and sustainability within public health settings and other professional contexts.
• Critically evaluate the principles for leading and developing people and a culture of organisational health and wellbeing.
• Integrate knowledge and understanding from the disciplines of public health, nutrition and psychology of behaviour change to identify or propose solutions through research, creative media, public health and commercial outputs.
• Justify choice of research design and methods to investigate (under supervision) a research question or hypothesis of relevance to public health nutrition and present this in a way that would stand up to critical review and scrutiny in academic and professional settings.

Admission Requirements

• An Honours degree in a Nutrition/Dietetic/Health Science/ Sports and Exercise Science undergraduate course – and students will normally have achieved a second class (2:2) classification or above, or equivalent qualification.
• General Requirement :-
  • Indian Students-Students must achieve 60% in a 3 Year Undergraduate Degree or 55% in a 4 Year.Undergraduate Degree Students from the following Universities will be considered with 55% in a 3 Year Undergraduate Degree (unless applying for Health and Life Science courses): Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai (Madras), Anna, Amity, Andhra Pradesh, Aligarh Muslim, Pune, Bangalore and JNTU.
  • Arab Students-Students who hold a Bachelor’s Degree should have an average grade of 60% or above. Students who have an average grade of 70% or CGPA of 2.5 out of 4 for the Postgraduate Research programmes with a satisfactory research proposal.

IELTS Requirements

Listening	Reading	Writing	Speaking	Overall
6	6	6	6	6.5

Remarks:

Indian Students IELTS Waiver:-65% in Standard XII English language from certain examination boards only (Central boards, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttarakhand)