Open Courses

This course contains three modules designed to familiarise students with classic methods in demography and population analysis. Topics include the measurement and analysis of fertility, mortality and migration, and methods for conducting population projections.

Evidence shows that children with developmental disabilities experience poorer health outcomes than children without disability, including higher mortality and severe illness. However, despite this greater need, children with developmental disabilities and their families often face barriers to healthcare access. It is vital that the global health community improve their access to high quality and appropriate healthcare, so that they can realise their full potential and participate in their community.

This three-week course is designed to enhance your knowledge of developmental disabilities, the health needs of children with developmental disabilities and how to improve integrated healthcare provision that works in partnership with families and other essential services, such as education or social care providers.

Evidence shows that co-production with people with lived experience of psychosocial disabilities can improve the quality, relevance and impact of mental health research, policy and services. Consequently, co-production, is increasingly becoming normalised – and even expected – in some contexts. Nevertheless, co-production in mental health research has not received sufficient attention and investment in many countries worldwide, and particularly in low- and middle-income settings.

In this introductory course on co-production in mental health research, you will learn from researchers as well as peer researchers with lived experience of psychosocial disabilities. The course will enhance your understanding of psychosocial disabilities and the importance of inclusion, autonomy and empowerment for persons with psychosocial disabilities. You will then learn about what co-production is, why it is important, and how to co-produce mental health research by reflecting on the existing evidence, available guidelines, as well as lessons learned from existing programmes and initiatives. 

This course is designed to take about 1-2 hours per week over 3 weeks. For the first three weeks (17 July - 7 August 2026), this course will include a moderated interactive discussion forum component to allow for sharing experiences and reflecting on the content with others enrolled on the course. From mid-August onwards, this course is available as a self-directed learning resource, with prompts to guide you to reflect on your own, and/or to facilitate a discussion that you may wish to organize with your peers / co-workers.

Please note: This course begins on Friday 17th July. The course materials and learning activities will be made available on the start date. 

This site has support and guidance information on how to use Moodle. 

This page contains a series of downloadable resources and learning activities from the School's Health Economics and Financing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries course. The material was originally delivered as a short course created for UNICEF and delivered to UNICEF staff between 2006 and 2016. Additional information about the course and its last edition can be found here.

The material is broken down into teaching modules and topic-focused interactive activities. Activities are presented in a variety of different ways ('challenge yourself' exercises, 'check your learning' quizzes) and may be vehicles for delivering content or informal assessment tasks. 

Course developers: Dr Virginia Wiseman, Dr Lorna Guinness, Fiammetta Bozzani, Joanna Stroud

This course has been designed to explore the complicated problem of malnutrition in all its forms, highlighting its multi-sectoral causes, exploring the available evidence and identifying potential solutions.