The scenario. You have been appointed as a public health officer for either: -A local authority (e.g. Bradford, Birmingham, Newcastle). -The UK Government-Office for Health Improvement and Disparities

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16 Nov 2025 • 3 min read

HWS6009-C Independent Study Finding Health Solutions Assessment 2025-26 | University of Bradford

HWS6009-C Assessment Overview

The scenario.

You have been appointed as a public health officer for either:

-A local authority (e.g. Bradford, Birmingham, Newcastle).
-The UK Government-Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (Public Health England).
-The World Health Organisation (WHO).
You have been assigned to identify a significant public health issue, and provide potential solution(s) (programme, intervention, policy) to the health issue in question.

You can choose the location of your work as either:

A local authority in United Kingdom (e.g. Bradford, Birmingham, Newcastle etc).
National
International/global

There are two components of the assessment. The first is a proposal outlining the approach you will be taking to plan your future health solution/intervention. This will enable you to receive feedback regarding your thinking and approach, before you begin your work. This proposal needs to be presented. The 1000 words stated for the proposal is indicative to allow you to better visualise the project before presentation. Presentation will be in person. The preferred format is a power point presentation. The second component, a 4000-word report, is where you identify and justify the chosen health issue, describe and then implement a process in which you develop a solution/intervention, and finally you discuss your new approach in relation to previous work and make recommendations for the future including how and why to evaluate the new solution/intervention.

Component	Weighting	Due Date
Project proposal – ~1000 words and presentation	20%	4th of December 2025
Project report – 4000 words	80%	26th of March 2026 (TBC)

Project proposal - 20% (word count 1000 words) to be presented

Students are required to choose a public health issue and develop a proposal to how they will seek to produce a future solution to this chosen health issue.

Proposal Form

Surname:

First name(s):

UB number:

Health issue of interest:

Working title of your project:

Question 1: outline and justify your chosen health issue and locality of focus (local authority,National, international,
other)? (250 words)

Question 2: How will you locate suitable literature and/or data to comprehensively understand the health issue and what
has been done before to address the health issue? (250 words)

Question 3: What theoretical approach will you undertake to inform your future health solution/intervention, and why are
you choosing this approach? (250 words)

Question 4: What intervention development framework will you apply to inform your future health solution, and why are
you choosing this framework? (250 words)

References:

Project report - 80% (word count 4000 words)

Students are required to report details of public health approaches applied to solve the selected health issue.

Report Guidance

Section	Word count (rough guide)
Front page – Title of project, your name, UoB number, date	Not included
List of tables, figures and appendices – refer to page numbers. Please note tables, figures and appendices do not go towards word count.	Not included
Executive summary (1 page) - explain why you wrote the report, emphasise your conclusions/recommendation, and include only the essential or most significant information to support those conclusions.	Not included
Part 1 – Rationale and importance of chosen health issue. 1.1. Introduction/Background of issue (cover the following) - What is the health issue (define it)? - What is the health importance of the issue? - What is the current prevalence of the health issue? - Are there any inequalities? Are these important? - What location are you focusing on and why? Local, national, global. - Why is intervention and/or health solution needed? - Use suitable statistics and data available? - Use tables, figures, and appropriate descriptive statistics. - The purpose to justify the aim and objectives in a critical way. 1.2. Aim and objectives	1000 words
Part 2 – Development of solution/intervention This will vary on your chosen approach, but you should state and outline the approach you are following (e.g. MRC framework, Behaviour Change Wheel, 6SQuID, intervention mapping, or bespoke own) and why? Be clear of your process and be clear of your attempt of following the process decided upon. Be clear of what you think your intervention will achieve in regard to outcome (what do you think will change).	2000 words
Part 3 – Discussion (Recommendations, future evaluation plan, and limitations) - Be sure describe and outline how your proposed intervention/solution if different from previous work. - State recommendations for future including how to evaluate. - What are the limitations of your work and how would you do differently?	1000 words
References - Havard	Not included
Total	4000