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21 June 2021

Rational medicines use

Welcome to this first session of Rational Medicines Use (RMU) in which we define the concept and its origins.
21 June 2021

Qualitative research methods

Welcome to the Qualitative Research Methods module. This is the second stage of preparing for your minithesis research study, so we have tried to guide you through the process with some breadth but along as straight a path as possible.
21 June 2021

Public health research

Welcome to this second semester Public Health Research Module. I will have met some of you and had contact with all of you through having co-convened and taught on the Population and Development II module with Nikki Schaay in your first semester. It is good to reconnect with you all again.
21 June 2021

Pharmaceutical policy and management

This new module, Pharmaceutical Policy and Management introduces students to pharmaceutical policy and management issues within the health systems framework and will be an additional elective in the MPH within the Pharmaceutical Public Health group, which provides students with an interest in this area a degree of specialisation.