Imperial College MPH

Congratulations to Dr Filippos Filippidis who has been appointed a Lecturer in Public Health in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care and School of Public Health at Imperial College London. We are currently advertising for a new Teaching Fellow to replace Filippidis in his current role.

Dr Filippos Filippidis from the Department of Primary Care and Public Health in the School of Public Health has been shortlisted by the Imperial College Union for the Award of Best Post-Graduate Teacher at Imperial College London. Students commented that " Dr Filippos teaches with great enthusiasm and uses humorous examples to explain difficult to grasp concepts such as using 'classroom sleeping disease' to explain epidemiological terminologies like prevalence and incidence rates. He also shows great concern towards the students' learning and constantly seeks feedback to improve his teaching methods and presentation content ."

Two MPH students from the 2013-2014 cohort, Yewande Adeleke and Riham Arab, won the first prize in the "Vaccines Today" competition with their video promoting the MMR vaccine. We would like to congratulate them for their success. You can watch their video here . This is the text accompanying the video: "Social media is a highly effective tool to use to improve awareness, encourage uptake and dispel myths associated with the MMR vaccine. So for the Vaccines Today Communication Challenge, we tried to display the content in an innovative, humorous and informative manner. The initial scene is to evoke a sense of duty and moral obligation amongst viewers. The target audience is both male and female adults. The transition from monochrome to coloured imaging is in parallel with the start of self-efficacious messaging and the MMR vaccination schedule is incorporated in the content. Finally, the video concludes with a herd of cows symbolising herd immun...

Thank you for your interest in the Imperial College MPH programme. The 2015-16 MPH course starts in October 2015. Applications for entry will open in November 2014. I cannot tell you at this stage whether you will be eligible for the MPH because the decision is made by the Admissions Team when they have an opportunity to view your degree results and IELTS score if relevant. We generally require a First Class or Upper Second Class degree from a good university, or a medical degree. A good personal statement about why you want to undertake the MPH course is essential. Previous public health experience is also helpful. You should take the opportunity to find out more about public health, for example, from the  FPH website  ( www.fph.org.uk ). We have several international student societies at Imperial to provide students with some peer support away from their home country. Do check out the visa rules before you apply if you intend to stay in the UK after the MPH as these op...

The presentation of 2013-14 MPH student dissertations took place on Tuesday 23 September 2014. We heard an excellent set of presentations from a very committed group of students. The diversity of projects illustrates the wide range of research, public health and policy carried work out in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London. The prize for the best overall performance in the MPH was awarded to Bryony Simmons. This prize is given to the student who obtains the highest overall mark on the MPH course. The prize for the best dissertation  was awarded to Miranda Trevor (Was the Great Recession associated with changes in self-rated health in Europe) and Shaon Lahiri (Effect of Humanitarian Crises on Social Functioning Among Civilians in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review). The titles of the 40 student presentations are listed below. Effectiveness of design features within mHealth interventions for supporting the self-management of long-term co...

The Imperial College London Master of Public Health (MPH) programme aims to equip students with the skills needed to contribute to meeting the many challenges faced by populations and health systems across the world. Worldwide, the burden of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and kidney disease in increasing, both in developed countries with ageing populations and in developing and middle income  countries that are undergoing economic and demographic transitions. Important risk factors for chronic diseases include smoking, hypertension, obesity, physical inactivity, and impaired glycaemic status. Integrated approaches to their prevention, early identification, and effective management could therefore have major public health and economic benefits and help limit the impact of the predicted future rise in chronic diseases. Infectious and environmental diseases also contribute to the burden of ill-health experienced across the world. Diseases such as ...

Measurement of the quality of primary care is now an increasing feature of the NHS and health systems in other countries. The availability of data from computerised medical records has greatly facilitated this process. As part of a session on primary care data in the Health Informatics module on the Imperial Master of Public Health (MPH) Programme, I asked one group of students to use data from the GP Quality & Outcomes Framework in the UK to illustrate how primary care data could be used to measure the quality of diabetes care. You can view their presentation via the link below. Inter-practice variation in quality of diabetes care in England