MSc Medical Anthropology in Durham United Kingdom | Durham University

The MSc in Medical Anthropology presents an engaging chance to explore current global health and wellness challenges through an anthropological lens, examining sociocultural factors, environmental connections, and the evolution of change and development. This biosocial health anthropology perspective, backed by pioneering research within the Department, fosters a dynamic and rapidly evolving academic atmosphere that attracts diverse students.
The program delivers comprehensive training in ethnographic health studies, analyzing cultural influences, the politicization of health issues, and anthropology's role in addressing contemporary public health challenges.

A key focus of the MSc is cultivating advanced research capabilities, with opportunities to apply these skills through practical work and presentations at the Department's yearly postgraduate conference.

Instruction is primarily led by scholars from the esteemed Anthropology of Health Research Group, which integrates biological and social anthropology, community medicine, evolutionary medicine, and social epidemiology across various scales from local to global health perspectives.

This one-year full-time or two-year part-time program combines compulsory and elective modules with a dissertation, featuring interactive lectures, seminars, hands-on sessions, and workshops.

Anthropology students gain access to the Department's renowned research facilities, including the Durham Infancy and Sleep Centre, Behavioral and Ecological Physiology Lab, Physical Activity Lab, South Africa field station, and extensive material culture and skeletal collections.