Reflections on a year in Oxford – MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology

by Emma Taylor-Gallardo Application process and interview I remember looking into master’s courses including public health and global health, but neither being quite what I wanted. After coming across the MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology (GHSE) I realised it was the right blend of statistics and epidemiology training with a global and public …

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Meet the NDPH Student/Alumni Ambassadors!

Interested in studying population health or epidemiology? Interested in doing an MSc or DPhil ( = Oxford word for PhD) in Oxford? Want to find out more about what it’s like from people who know it best? Meet the NDPH Student/Alumni Ambassadors! Who are we? We are students and alumni of the MSc in Global …

Readers’ Recommendations: Books, podcasts, blogs, videos

We asked you (our wonderful readers and community) for recommendations… Books, articles, podcasts and more, broadly related to population health and epidemiology. Here’s what you said! Books Human Compatible, by Stuart Russell. Described by @DaniKim_02 as ‘A comprehensive but succinct reading about where the advances in AI are taking us… a great mix of technical …

Reflections of a year studying the MSc in Global Health Science & Epidemiology

“What a time to be studying epidemiology!” I hear regularly. The NDPH’s MSc in Global Health Science & Epidemiology, like almost every other facet of life, has changed significantly during the past few months. But the people – fellow MSc students, course directors, supervisors, and other members of the department – have made this time …

Wisdom of the Crowd: DPhil advice from current students

Starting out on your DPhil/PhD and looking for some inspiration and wise words? Or part way through and needing some? NDPH Student Blog has got your back! In our first ever crowd-sourced blogpost we asked Twitter to tweet us answers to the question:   “What do you wish you’d known when you started your DPhil/PhD?”  This is what we …

Death comes to life at ‘Beyond the Body’

As a young researcher disillusioned by the academic rat race, I’m a vocal proponent of shattering echo chambers and paving untraditional publications pathways whilst concurrently grappling with the ‘but how?’ question. After visiting the creative communications triumph ‘Beyond the Body: a portrait of autopsy’, I had to know more about the people and process that …

Learning R and Dogs – An Experience from a Hackathon

Yes, you read it correctly. In what wonderful universe are dogs associated with learning the programming language R? I am sure we have all experienced some degree of despair when learning or working with R and would have loved to cuddle a dog for that feeling of unconditional support and affection. Unfortunately, our everyday working …

Time for one more paragraph before the school run? The balance of being a parent and doing a DPhil at the same time

Doing a DPhil can be hard work - but juggling it with having a baby or raising a family is impossible, right? We spoke to two recent graduates who have done just that and found that the flexibility of doing a DPhil while having a child definitely has its positives. What is your experience of …

Communicating the non-communicable: MSc students debate public health topics

As students in global heath, we all agree that our research has an intrinsic value, as it helps the advancement of science. Nonetheless, we are convinced that our contributions to the scientific field also generate an external, more tangible value, as they push forward the betterment of individual and social health. We have heard from …