Health Economics and Health Policy MSc online

Overview

Ready to take your healthcare career to the next level? Gain the skills you need to forge your career path with a Health Economics and Health Policy MSc online from Brunel University London. This UK-based course is created for distance learners with an active learning and research-led approach to help you develop the skills to change and influence public health at a local, national and global level. As science and research progresses, you’ll learn to use these developments to draw your own research conclusions and to address areas of health to really make a difference in society.

Here at Brunel University London, we take pride in our global recognition and involvement in leading-edge research. With growing teaching capabilities made possible through distance learning, we offer this fully online postgraduate programme in Health Economics and Health Policy to ensure that a bright career path is achievable for anyone, anywhere. 

Global pricing available

The best part about offering postgraduate programmes online is that we can provide top-quality education to people around the world who can't just up and move to London. Taking many global factors such as international exchange rates into account, we provide a reduced tuition fee of £6,000 for Indian, Southeast Asian, and African students. Distance learning can be an ideal option for busy international professionals who are looking for a UK-based degree to boost their credentials for future career opportunities.

 A degree offering career-ready skills

An online Health Economics and Health Policy MSc will help you develop a critical approach to health economics and the application of economic tools to evaluate healthcare intervention and policy, whilst acquiring advanced academic and research skills. You'll draw on multiple disciplines as you:

• Explore the links between population health and macroeconomic factors
• Build knowledge, skills, and competence to perfecome economic evaluation of interventions and policies, including in the application of epidemiology and decision modelling.
• Provide the opportunity to conduct an emporical research project on a health economics and policy issue.
• Consider equity in health and healthcare delivery and consumption.
• Develop your competence in critically evaluating and communicating research evidence
• Examine healthcare financing models, provider reimbursement mechanisms, incentives, and the implications for healthcare markets.

Canvas

Without leaving your country or career, you can study fully online with all of the support, resources, and energy of a campus programme. Our academic experts use a wide variety of teaching methods including lectures, seminars and self-directed learning to provide you with a comprehensive learning experience. You’re fully supported throughout the whole degree process including having a personal tutor and receiving one-to-one specialist academic supervision to complete the research project to demonstrate your depth of acquired knowledge.

Create a timetable that suits you

Your online master's experience shouldn't be stressful, so we make sure you can learn at your pace. You'll have the option to complete your degree in 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time. This programme offers a flexible format for learning and teaching, including pre-recorded video content, asynchronous activities, and more. You’ll also get the chance to participate in various additional live classes to help build your networking community, participate in small group projects, and learn to problem-solve together.

 Your future opportunities

 The Health Economics and Health Policy MSc online from Brunel University London Online  aims to facilitate you to gain advanced skills, principles and knowledge for a career in healthcare and health policy organisations (e.g. health services, government, universities, the non-profit sector, research units, pharmaceutical industry.)

Take the first step

 Be sure to take a look at our website for more information on this programme. If you've got more specific questions about your online postgraduate studies with Brunel, our dedicated Admissions Team is more than happy to provide answers!

For a deeper dive into an online classroom demo and support mechanisms for our distance learners, check out our webinar to see how Brunel can help you maximise your career potential.