This course aims to provide students with knowledge and critical understanding of common public health problems in humanitarian emergencies. It aims to enable students to adopt an evidence-based and reasoned approach to the critical assessment and management of the problems and to develop and evaluate strategies for their prevention and control.

Course Outline
- common public health problems: context and constraints to their management in emergencies
- rapid needs assessment, setting priorities, goals and objectives
- calculating key indicators of the health status of a population
- health information systems in emergencies
- the primary health care approach to humanitarian emergencies
- environmental health planning and management in emergencies
- common epidemic communicable diseases surveillance and control in emergencies
- managing specific disease outbreaks
- effect of disasters on food security
- risk factors for malnutrition in complex emergencies.
- methods of assessing food security and nutritional status in emergency situations.
- current approaches to the management of malnutrition and micronutrient deficiency disorders
- reproductive health for displaced populations
- gender-based violence
- HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections - approaches to prevention, control and management
- mental health
- Health promotion & post-conflict health needs
- critical analysis of a specific public health problem in a current humanitarian emergency.

10 Academic Credits - Assessments coming soon
For an additional fee of £95, you can be entered for full Academic Credits for this course (Masters level credit, awarded by the University of Liverpool). The academic credits are offered to provide choice and flexibility to all of our students and students who do not wish to do the assessments will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance. Applicants wishing to find out more about the assessment should contact [email protected].