Master of Public Health, University of Edinburgh

News that 3 senior researchers and teachers in our Institute are to receive an honour from the University for their work in Global Health. Congratulations to Professors Campbell, Rudan and Nair!

Principal's Medal Winners 2019 Congratulations to Professors Harry Campbell, Harish Nair and Igor Rudan - winners of the University of Edinburgh Principal's Medal for Exceptional Service

Useful information if you are about to join us here in Edinburgh.

College Postgraduate Welcome Events 2019 Our 2019 Welcome Events for new on-campus postgraduate students take place on Monday 9th September and Tuesday 10th September.

We had an eventful first day with the new group of on campus MPH students yesterday - a University-wide network failure that meant no one could use online systems, followed by a fire alarm in our building as we were starting to have lunch! Hopefully today (looking at IT and Library services, as well as learning in a multicultural environment) wlll be a little more straightforward. At least the network is functioning this morning!

New appointment for our Institute.

Welcome to Professor Linda Bauld, who has been appointed Bruce and John Usher Chair of Public Health at the Usher Institute.

Linda joins us from the University of Stirling, where she has been Dean of Research (Impact), Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Institute for Social Marketing. She is also Deputy Director of the UK Centre for To***co and Alcohol Studies, a UK Clinical Research Collaboration Centre for Public Health Excellence covering 13 universities.

Find out more: https://goo.gl/Y9VsVq

Historic day for public health in Scotland: Alcohol Minimum Unit Pricing implemented today after a 5 year battle against the dark forces! Own brand supermarket spirits could be £3 more expensive per bottle:

Scotland calls time on cheap booze The new law sets a minimum price at which alcohol can be sold in a bid to tackle problem drinking.

Recognition for one of our colleagues here at the Usher Institute (who leads our course on Health Promotion in the on campus version of the MPH!).

Congratulations to Professor Amanda Amos who has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Network of Women Against To***co (INWAT).

Here’s Amanda receiving her award from INWAT President, Marion Hale at the World Conference on Tabacco or Health in Cape Town last month.

Amanda is Professor of Health Promotion at the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics.

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A video on epidemiological transition sponsored by the online MPH programme.Thanks to for collaborating with us. Please do share/retweet if of interest to others in your networks!

Epidemiological transition Epidemiological transition is the changing patterns of disease (and causes of death) seen in human history. Those of us interested in public health and globa...

This is a terrific idea - a video glossary of concepts in Global Health, compiled by some of our on campus MPH students participating in the "Investing in Global Health and Development" course before Christmas.

Video Glossary global health

We were at this graduation today, as last academic year’s MPH class received their degrees. Well done to all!

Met a good number of on campus MPH students this morning - Welcome Week has arrived. On to the new academic year!

The MPH teams are fully back in action now - welcome to 2017...
We're writing courses, marking assignments, starting our Semester 2 teaching, reviewing applications for next year's programmes, .... Please get in touch if you have any questions.

Hope everyone is having an enjoyable festive season (for those of us in parts of the world for which this is a festive season!). The University of Edinburgh is currently closed for the Christmas and New Year vacation, but we will be operating again from 4th January. Best wishes and see you in 2017.

Research carried out primarily by one of our previous MPH students here in Edinburgh - now reaching publication and getting some press coverage.

Sexual violence in war has lasting effect | The University of Edinburgh Survivors of sexual violence in war zones suffer long lasting consequences, such as physical injury, mental trauma and social stigma, research suggests.

It's the end of a long Induction week here in Edinburgh for our new cohort of on campus MPH students. The new online students have been corresponding on our induction site for 2-3 weeks. Teaching starts next week for both groups - a new academic year begins...

Infographics and Visualisations | National Records of Scotland National Records of Scotland

Information from the University's Institute of Academic Development, regarding some short pre-arrival workshops that may be of interest to students about to start either our on campus or online programmes...

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Below are 3 new pre-arrival workshops that we will be piloting this September. We will be opening these workshops to all on campus and online PGT students. All workshops are now available to book. If there are any problems with booking a place please email [email protected] and we will book you a place.

To support you with your Masters studies for the year ahead, we offer study skills workshops throughout the year. This year we will be offering a set of online 'pre-arrival' workshops to support you with your studies and skills such as critical thinking, writing at PGT level and getting the best from your library at the University of Edinburgh.

Critical Thinking 06-Sep-16 10.00-11.00
Direct Booking Link: https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?event=book&scheduleID=21586

Writing at PGT Level 07-Sep-16 15:00-16:00
Direct Booking Link: https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?event=book&scheduleID=21587

Getting started with the Library 08-Sep-16 12:00-13:00
In this session, we will cover the essential things you need to get the best from the Library at the University of Edinburgh for your studies, whether you’re in Edinburgh or studying online. Please bring plenty of questions, and in this friendly and welcoming introduction and discussion, you’ll get a head start in preparation for your course.

Direct Booking Link: https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?event=book&scheduleID=21585

These sessions will take place via blackboard collaborate (virtual classroom).Booking is required in order to receive the workshop link and further information about how to join the session.

Many thanks to Jessica Munshaw, who has set up a Facebook group called "MPH Edinburgh 2016/2017" for our on campus class, who will be arriving next month. Please do make use of this!

One of our new on campus students has offered to set up a Facebook group for the 2016-17 cohort of students here in Edinburgh. If any of our incoming students would like to be included in this group (it will be students only, no staff, so you can talk freely!), please let us know on this post , by FB message or email.

If anyone would like to set up a page for the new group of online students, let us know too!

Polish medical links celebrated An event has been held to celebrate the founding of Edinburgh’s Polish School of Medicine. University Chancellor HRH The Princess Royal attended a ceremony t...

The Usher Institute is currently advertising a Research Fellow post to support the work of Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley as part of the ‘Negotiating civilian and military lives: Reserves, family and work’ project by contributing to data collection, analysis, dissemination and publication.

The post holder will develop an on-line survey instrument to explore reservist, family and employer experiences of the intersections of reserve/civilian life, and will contribute to the analysis of the multiple quantitative and qualitative data sets, taking overall responsibility for selected components and writing for publication. See:

https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form

Worth a look...

Anatomical Museum launches 3D app | The University of Edinburgh Treasures from Scotland’s medical past are on display to global audiences for the first time.

A brief video introduction to online learning in the College of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

The University of Edinburgh: Online Distance Learning - Medicine & Veterinary Medicine An introduction to postgraduate level online distance learning at the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, at The University of Edinburgh.

Strange goings-on downstairs from us...

Edinburgh Medical School treated year 4 to a spooky evening touring the catacooms and out-of-bounds areas within the Anatomy Department! Fancy dress, cocktails and thousands of skulls were all involved, alongside an opportunity to see the latest technology the department has been working on.

Photos kindly provided by Edinburgh Medical School.

Some of our online team at the end of a successful course design workshop, with the storyboard they created for a new course.

A brief note to say that we have just removed a small number of posts to this page that we felt were off-topic. The purpose of this page is to act as an information and contact point on Facebook for our on campus and online MPH postgraduate degrees. More general discussions of medical topics are interesting but better conducted in more relevant fora. Thank you.

Vacancy: Academic Course Lead - Systematic Review Methodology for our online programme (http://www.ed.ac.uk/molecular-clinical-medicine/mph - ). See edin.ac/1NGYFo5 . Closing date is Feb 5

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We've been pretty quiet on this page recently - apologies for that! We have been working hard with both the on campus and online programmes, with our first course on the new online MPH now completed (apart from the marking). That seems to have been very successful, so we're looking forward to moving on to our next new online course in January. For the on campus programme, we have been reviewing our structure and range of courses, and are likely to be making some changes and introducing one or two new courses next year. Lots of behind the scenes activity just now...

The online MPH induction is well under way, and now the on campus MPH students start arriving today.

Our online MPH students have started sending us postcard to pin to our world map! We're looking forward to receiving more in the future!

In case this is of any interest to any MPH graduates out there, the University of Southampton are currently advertising a public health teaching fellowship: https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=611515LG

611515LG Public Health Teaching Fellow/Senior Teaching Fellow - Recruitment at the University of... The Academic Unit of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University of Southampton is seeking a well-qualified and highly motivated Public Health Teaching Fellow to join their team based at University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust.