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I am Sante Kumar.

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I'm an associate clinical professor in public health at the

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University of Warwick, where I'm the course director

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for the Master's in Public Health.

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Also work part-Time as a consultant in public health

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for the UK Health Security Agency.

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The Masters in Public Health at Warwick is an on-campus

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full-time course, which is runs over 12 months,

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but students have the option

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of taking it part-time over two or three years.

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So this course covers the breadth of public health, so

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students who are thinking of working in any area

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of public health that could be data analysis

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or on the ground local authority, public health,

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or for an NGO, um, this would massively appeal to them,

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but also students that want to do research in the future,

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maybe a PhD or become a an academic public health masters in

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public health will cover all those aspects.

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The course is intensive, it is 12 months

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and for those of you doing it full time,

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you will be on campus for most of those 12 months.

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But it's fun. Um,

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we cover one module at a time, which is really good.

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Students can just focus on one thing, do an assignment for

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that, and then move on to the next thing,

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which we find students, uh, grateful for.

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We also don't have any exams, um,

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but all our assignments do cover something

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that you might be expected

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to do when you're working in public health.

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There are many parts of the course

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that students absolutely love.

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Um, one highlight is when they're working together

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to produce a presentation.

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The way we handle group work is we will randomly allocate

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students together and we'll make sure there's a mix

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of students in each group and they

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really get to learn off each other.

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I love hearing that laughter and the excitement

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that's coming from the table, especially building

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up to a presentation.

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We also have debate sessions

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and the students really love that we allocate them

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to either being for or against emotion

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and really help really seeing them, um, actually engage

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with the side of the argument they're forced

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to be on is quite satisfying and they really enjoy it.

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In terms of careers that students go in, go into

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after doing a masters in public health, we have some

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that go on to do PhDs at local

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or national international universities

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because they want to continue with a research based career.

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We do have many that go into local

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and national government organizations here in the uk,

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at the UK Health Security Agency,

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but also public health organizations in their own countries

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and NGOs.