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By the end of this stream students will be able to demonstrate ability to apply knowledge of the core disciplines of public health, consisting of statistics epidemiology health economics and social research, to real health problems. In addition, students will be able to:

• demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of the principles and methods of economic evaluation
• demonstrate advanced knowledge of health economic methods applied to health policy or decision analysis
• identify, assess and critically synthesise relevant evidence from health economic research literature
• select and apply appropriate, ethical and feasible study designs to answer questions in health care and health economic research
• show competence, both written and verbal, in communicating research evidence

The stream is aimed at anyone - with or without any previous training in economics - who is interested in working as a health economist in an academic or professional capacity across high-, middle- and low-income countries.