MSc in Health and International Development (360G-Wellcome-213416_Z_18_Z)

The MSc Health and International Development draws on LSE’s strengths in the social sciences and equips students with the skills to analyse health issues using a range of approaches, qualitative and quantitative. Graduates will be critical and analytically sophisticated, and able to grapple with complex health-related questions. Grounded in multi-disciplinary social science approaches to health, the programme’s core courses expose students to theoretical, substantive and methodological debates in health-related research. The compulsory research design course supports students to develop as independent researchers so that they can develop a dissertation tackling a health-related issue on a topic that motivates them. Optional health-related courses from a range of disciplinary perspectives (political science, anthropology, development studies, social psychology) allow students to tailor their learning to their career aspirations. In this respect it is a unique degree, as it embeds analysis of health in a multidisciplinary degree of international development. The integration of health and development make the degree truly distinctive, and different from health degrees taught in schools or departments of health. Studentships will be allocated on merit; not just outstanding academic achievements, but a highly motivated personal statement and experience (research, professional, voluntary). Key words: health; multidisciplinary; international development; social sciences