MSc Control of Infectious Diseases

at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The below structure outlines the proposed modules for this programme. Programme and module specifications provide full details about the aims and objectives of each module, what you will study and how the module is assessed.
 

Term 1
 

Students take two compulsory AB1 modules:

• Introduction to Disease Agents & Their Control
• Basic Statistics for Public Health & Policy
   

In addition, students take one of the following AB1 module combinations:

• Basic Epidemiology and Introduction to Health Economics and Health Policy, Process & Power (3 modules)
• Extended Epidemiology and Introduction to Health Economics or Health Policy, process & Power (2 modules)
   

Terms 2 and 3
 

Students take a total of five study modules, one from each timetable slot (C1, C2, D1, D2, E). The list below shows recommended modules. There are other optional modules which may be taken only after consultation with the Programme Director.
 

Please be aware that depending on the COVID-19 restrictions in place at that time, Term 2 and 3 lab-based optional modules (indicated in bold and italics with *) may not be available.
 

C1 slot

• Designing Disease Control Programmes
• Malaria: From Science to Policy and Practice
• Health Care Evaluation
   

C2 slot

• Clinical Bacteriology 1*
• Conflict & Health
• Design & Analysis of Epidemiological Studies
• Population, Poverty and Environment
• Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
   

D1 slot

• Applied Communicable Disease Control
• Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Current Issues in Maternal & Perinatal Health
• Economic Analysis for Health Policy
• Medical Anthropology and Public Health
• Spatial Epidemiology in Public Health
• Vector Sampling, Identification & Incrimination*
• Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health
   

D2 slot

• Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
• Clinical Bacteriology 2*
   

E slot

• Applying Public Health Principles
• HIV
• Integrated Vector Management*
• Neglected Tropical Diseases

In order to be admitted to an LSHTM master's degree programme, an applicant must:
 

• hold either a first degree at Second Class Honours standard in a relevant discipline, or a degree in medicine recognised by the UK General Medical Council (GMC) for the purposes of practising medicine in the UK, or another degree of equivalent standard awarded by an overseas institution recognised by UK ENIC.

or

• hold a professional qualification appropriate to the programme of study to be followed obtained by written examinations and judged by LSHTM to be equivalent to a Second Class Honours degree or above.

or

• have relevant professional experience or training which is judged by LSHTM to be equivalent to a Second Class Honours degree or above.

EU/Overseas  - £26,680
 

Graduates from this programme enter a diverse range of positions and organisations across the fields of epidemiology, laboratory sciences and public health.
 

Below you will find just a few of the positions and organisations that our graduates from this course have entered after graduating: