Immunology and Global Health

This Immunology and Global Health program at Maynooth University is targeted at biological and health science graduates who are interested in the major challenges in health and development today and who wish to broaden their understanding of immunology, its importance in global health and the factors that impact on immunological intervention strategies in health and disease. An important component of the course covers emerging and re-emerging diseases including diseases of poverty.

Career Options

The Immunology and Global Health program at Maynooth University will equip students to avail of career opportunities in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. It is a gateway to further study for a PhD degree or a career in research.

Students completing this course will be advantaged in securing prized postgraduate research positions with leading research groups. In addition, candidates from bioscience backgrounds completing this MSc course will be well placed for securing positions in governmental or nongovernmental organisations responsible for implementing health policy.

Courses include:

• Advanced Immunology

• Vaccines and Adjuvants

• Epidemiology and the Modelling of Human Disease

• Medical Anthropology

• Bioethics, biopharmaceuticals and Clinical Trial

• Clinical Immunology

• Applied and Molecular Immunology