Welcome to all of you and congratulations on gaining a place at York. We are delighted you have chosen to study with us and we will work with you in providing a supportive learning environment to enable each of you to fulfil your potential. We have a dedicated group of staff, with years of high-calibre teaching, research and clinical experience between them, who are here to guide and support you through your studies. We are one of the top UK providers of public health professional education whose graduates have and will continue to help deliver, shape and innovate public health and social care in the modern era. Your time with us will benefit from high-level education coupled with exposure to our world-leading research. Success is achieved through working hard as an individual and in supportive teams, which is something we foster through our programmes of study and in our overall approach. Our Student Services teams are also here to help so please do use their expertise.

I hope you enjoy your experience of studying in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York.

This handbook has been prepared to cover the information you will need for your programme and to assist you as a student in the Department. Please read it through and use it as your first point of reference. If you have any concerns, our Student Services team, located on the ground floor of the Seebohm Rowntree Building, stands ready to help.

On behalf of everyone in Health Sciences, I wish you an enjoyable and successful programme of study. 

Professor Kate Flemming 

Head of Department