As a cornerstone of the MPH curriculum, the Dissertation enables students to leverage their acquired knowledge and skills, giving them the opportunity to make impactful contributions to the realm of public health.
In this module students formulate a research question and develop a research proposal, including a clear research strategy. Students will work independently, with appropriate supervision, to conduct original, primary or secondary, public health research aimed at answering a research question, applying methodological principles and research techniques. The 10,000-word, final dissertation requires students to creatively apply public health theory and knowledge relevant to the research question to generate new knowledge about the selected issue which is synthesised and reported in a clear and systematic way.