Medical Humanitarian Leadership
The Wits School of Public Health is offering a new Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health in the field of Medical Humanitarian Leadership.
Overview
Managers play a pivotal role in the quality of strategic planning and implementation in a medical humanitarian setting. It relies largely on the experience, skills and competencies of the managers in the field.
The scope of the response to medical crises is very wide (including advocacy, research and management of large teams) and it addresses a broad range of public health and medical domains (e.g. epidemiology, surgery, nutrition, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, etc.). Moreover, humanitarian contexts are complex requiring analytic skills as well as the ability to translate evidence into programmes. Programmes can suffer from the lack of strong management and leadership in the field, in all components of the project cycle which has a negative effect on outcomes.
By developing competencies and clarifying their role, managers can gain confidence in their position increase their performance thus contributing in improving the impact of the interventions on target populations. They also contribute to maintain a strong medical identity and legitimacy in medical humanitarian NGOs.
The Wits School of Public Health is a multi-disciplinary school producing skilled public health practitioners appropriately trained to address the range of public health needs and challenges within South African and African settings.
Curriculum
NQF Level: 8
Total NQF Credits: 120
- Orientation to Public Health
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics for Medical Humanitarian Action
- Planning and Design of Strategies for Medical Humanitarian Action
- People Management in Medical Humanitarian Contexts
- Operational Management of Medical Humanitarian Action
- 足球竞彩app排名 Wellness in Humanitarian Settings
- Organisational positioning, Advocacy and Communication in Medical Humanitarian Contexts
- Operational research for Medical Humanitarian Action
Entry Requirements
A graduate who has been awarded one of the following degrees:
- Bachelor of Dental Science;
- Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery; Bachelor of Nursing;
- Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy; Bachelor of Pharmacy;
- Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy; Bachelor of Health Sciences Honours; Bachelor of Science Honours.
Any other person, who has satisfied the Senate, by means of a written or oral test (or both), or by any other mode of assessment to be determined from time to time by the Senate, that s/he is sufficiently qualified to undertake the field of study proposed.
In addition, the candidate must have experience as a middle or senior manager and must have experience in the medical humanitarian field.
University Application Process
- Applications are handled centrally by the 足球竞彩app排名 Enrolment Centre (SEnC). Once your application is complete in terms of requested documentation, your application will be referred to the relevant School for assessment. Click here to see an overview of the Wits applications process. Refer to Wits postgraduate online application guide for detailed guidelines.
- Please apply online. Upload your supporting documents at the time of application, or via the Self Service Portal.
- Applicants can monitor the progress of their applications via the Self Service Portal.
- Selections for programmes that have a limited intake but attract a large number of applications may only finalise the application at the end of the application cycle.
Please note that the Entry Requirements are a guide. Meeting these requirements does not guarantee a place. Final selection is made subject to the availability of places, academic results and other entry requirements where applicable.
International students, please check this section.
For more information, contact the 足球竞彩app排名 Call Centre +27 (0)11 717 1888, or log a query at www.wits.ac.za/askwits.
University Fees and Funding
Click here to see the current average tuition fees. The Fees site also provides information about the payment of fees and closing dates for fees payments. Once you have applied you will be able to access the fees estimator on the student self-service portal.
For information about postgraduate funding opportunities, including the postgraduate merit award, click here. The University's Postgraduate Funding portal is a database of scholarships, bursaries and other funding opportunities available to Wits postgraduate students. Please also check your School website for bursary opportunities. NRF bursaries: The National Research Foundation (NRF) offers a wide range of opportunities in terms of bursaries and fellowships to students pursuing postgraduate studies. External bursaries portal: The Bursaries South Africa website provides a comprehensive list of bursaries in South Africa.