Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership Online MSc/PGDip/PGCert
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
9am - 5pm
Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership Online MSc/PGDip/PGCert
Our online Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership programme will equip you with the skills to lead, plan, implement and evaluate health policies and programmes in your own setting. You will gain confidence to become a strategic global oral health leader.
Join our Dental Public Health, Policy and Leadership MSc/PGDip/PGCert and benefit from:
- Flexible online learning that fits around your life and work commitments wherever you are in the world. Study part-time to complete a postgraduate certificate, diploma or MSc.
- Opportunities to interact with our welcoming community of students and staff from across the world.
- Innovative teaching using the latest technology to equip you with practical and transferrable leadership skills to enhance your career.
- Gain specialist insight into dental health policy and build a portfolio of technical skills.
- Study at one of the UK’s top-rated dental schools: we’re joint first for research environment (REF 2021) and ranked 16th in the world for dentistry (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024).
About the programme
This online learning programme focuses on how we can combat the global health issues and challenges facing dental healthcare today, using strategic planning, evidence-informed decision-making, and strong public health leadership.
For the Postgraduate Certificate, you’ll take four compulsory modules covering topics from dental public health policy, how to assess oral health in populations, evidence-based dentistry, to disease prevention.
The Postgraduate Diploma builds on the Certificate with four additional modules that allow you to develop ‘real world’ transferable public health skills.
For the MSc, you’ll take eight compulsory modules from the Postgraduate Diploma course and choose a specialist MSc module to gain advanced skills. You’ll also complete a dissertation, based on your research interests, in your second year.
Whichever option you choose, you’ll be taught through our online platform, which will enrich your studies with a dynamic range of webinars, videos, interactive quizzes and Zoom/Teams presentations. Your written assignments will be submitted through the portal, while poster and oral presentations will be assessed via Zoom/Teams.
You’ll be encouraged to interact with your teachers and other students in online discussion forums, join group activities ad become part of our community.
Watch our video to learn more about the programme.
Careers and employability
The skills you gain on this programme will accelerate your training and significantly enhance your career prospects.
You’ll leave this programme as a very well-qualified graduate, with opportunities for employment both in dental health care and public policy making.
You’ll also gain the research skills and experience necessary to pursue further academic research at PhD level.
Find out more and apply for the MSc