Universities United Kingdom London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Courses MSc Demography & Health

MSc Demography & Health
at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

London, United Kingdom

Tuition Fee £ 26,680
Country Rank#29
Duration24 Months
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Program Overview

This MSc provides rigorous training in demography and population studies. The curriculum comprises demographic methods and theory, epidemiology, statistics and data analysis.

Many of our societies continue to face a diverse set of demographic challenges and opportunities, including rapid population ageing, extremely low as well as very high fertility, and sizable population migration. These and other demographic trends have important repercussions in all possible domains of life; from voting behavior to living arrangements, labour markets and economic growth, tax revenues and pension systems, carbon emissions, and the demand for education, health and social services. Demography, in other words, may well be the single most defining factor of the world that we live in.

The MSc Demography & Health equips students with the theories and skills to understand and quantify macro-level population dynamics and their downstream implications for health and health policies. Students are further trained in the analysis of micro-level processes that govern population change, including fertility and reproductive behaviour, the exposure to health risks, and population mobility. Analysis tools and techniques are applied to high-income settings where high-quality data are usually abundant to resource constrained settings that are covered by partial or deficient information systems.

The teaching programme gives students ample opportunity to select from a wide range of modules in statistics, epidemiology public health, and the social sciences, and thus tailor their curriculum to either focus on the technical aspects of data analytics and demographic estimation, or, take a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of population and health.

The MSc Demography & Health is recognised by the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Population Investigation Committee (PIC) and a number of scholarships from these bodies are available each year.

Course Content
Term 1

Students take the following compulsory AB1 modules:
- Basic Epidemiology or Extended Epidemiology
- Demographic Methods
- Population Studies
- Principles of Social Research
- Statistics for Epidemiology & Population Health
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 or compulsory modules. Students are expected to take modules related to demography for at least two of their other four choices. There are other optional modules which may be taken only after consultation with the Programme Directors.

C1 slot
- Research Design & Analysis
C2 slot
- Family Planning Programmes
- Population, Poverty and Environment
D1 slot
- Evaluation of Public Health Interventions
- Social Epidemiology
D2 slot
- Population Dynamics & Projections (compulsory)
E slot
- Analysing Survey & Population Data
- HIV
Entry Requirement
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.
Fees & Scholarships
EU/Overseas - £26,680
Career Prospect
Graduates from this programme enter a diverse range of positions in public health, academic research of a very wide nature, NGOs, reproductive health programmes, health services, government statistical offices, policy and planning.

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

Cost Of Studying At London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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800Cr+

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MSc Demography & Health at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine