About this course
The MSc in Health Services Research is for those who are seeking to gain or enhance a high level of health research skills. It is also for those who wish to pursue a career in public health or health services delivery and analysis in the UK and internationally with:
- the UK National Health Service (or its equivalent abroad)
- local government
- the voluntary sector
- academic healthcare
This is a specialist MSc to provide you with a wide range of health services research methodologies, and with a high standard within those methodologies. You can be confident after successfully completing the course that you will have the skills to be able to proceed with a PhD or tackle higher-level analyses in your area of health services research.
The Health Services Research MSc is based in theÊInstitute of Health & SocietyÊin Newcastle UniversityÕs medical school, the Faculty of Medical Sciences. The Institute, headed byÊProf Allyson Pollock, is one of the UKÕs leading public health departments.
The MSc in Health Services Research grows out of the InstituteÕs determination to undertake research and teaching to:
- reduce health inequalities
- address social injustice
- improve population health locally, nationally, and internationally
