MSc Public Health (360G-Wellcome-213413_Z_18_Z)

This MSc covers the whole breadth of public health, encompassing high-, middle- and low-income countries. The aim of the programme – consistent with LSHTM’s mission to improve health worldwide – is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to improve the health of populations, communities and particular groups within them. The emphasis is on the use, development and critical evaluation of conceptual models, evidence and methods of analysis, and on effective interventions and policies at local, national and international levels. On successful completion of the programme, students will receive a Master's degree in Public Health. Students can follow a general public health course or concentrate on one of five more specific streams: environment and health; health economics; health promotion; health services management; health services research. In addition to choosing a stream, students holding the Wellcome Trust Studentship will follow a humanities and social science ‘pathway’ through the programme. This will involve taking specialist modules in humanities and social science subjects (such as history, anthropology and sociology) and producing a dissertation rooted in one of these disciplines. The students will be guided along this pathway by a personal tutor with a background in the humanities or social sciences.