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The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is one of the world’s leading public health universities, renowned for its research and postgraduate education in public and global health.

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Today, LSHTM has over 3000 students studying by distance learning from over 150 countries.

LSHTM courses will equip you with a comprehensive knowledge base and a toolkit of practical skills to develop a successful career in public and global health. All programmes play a key role in responding to public health challenges around the world.

LSHTM graduates go on to diverse career paths, becoming clinicians, policy-makers, academics and laboratory scientists, to name just a few. They also join a global network dedicated to improving health worldwide.

Highly ranked in various university league tables, LSHTM was:

  • First in the UK and third in the world for public health in Shanghai Ranking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2022.
  • Second in the world for public, environmental & occupational health and fourth in the world for infectious diseases in the US News Best Global Universities Ranking 2022. 
  • First in the UK for publishing open access research and first in the UK for the proportion of academic research with women listed as authors in the 2023 CWTS Leiden Ranking. 
  • First in the UK for research impact, in tables published by the Times Higher Education for REF 2021. 
  • Awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2021 for our world-leading work on COVID-19 and pandemic preparedness, and also in 2017 in recognition of our response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. 
  • Named University of the Year 2016 by Times Higher Education. 

Courses with academic direction from LSHTM

Short course

Applied communicable disease control

Explore the knowledge and skills necessary for the application of communicable disease control activities in varied settings and populations (credit bearing).
Short course

Bacterial infections

This module aims to give students an understanding of the biology of bacteria as pathogens (credit bearing).
Short course

Basic epidemiology

Improve your understanding of essential epidemiological methods and their use in public health (credit bearing).
Short course

Basic statistics for clinical trials

Learn how to select and apply appropriate statistical methods to analyse data from clinical trials plus present the analyses clearly (credit bearing).
MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Clinical Trials

Analyse and understand decisions affecting the design, delivery and assessment of clinical trials - an increasingly important field in global health.
Short course

Clinical trials in practice

The key steps in the logistical and practical implementation of a clinical trial are investigated in this module (credit bearing).
Short course

Cluster randomised trials

Learn to understand the key features in the design, analysis and reporting of cluster randomised trials (credit bearing).
Short course

Control of infectious diseases

An introduction to public health, methods for the control of infectious diseases, surveillance methods, and the design of control programmes (credit bearing).
Short course

Data management

Understand the principles and practices required to collect high quality clinical trial data and to review data for regulatory compliance (credit bearing).
Short course

Environmental health policy

This module aims to introduce you to a range of key methodological tools for assessing and controlling environmental risks to health (credit bearing).
MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Epidemiology

Get ready to contribute to medical research and public health, developing the epidemiological skills you need to understand global health problems.
Short course

Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

Gain an in-depth knowledge of important concepts in communicable disease epidemiology, and many of the skills to apply these concepts (credit bearing).
MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Global Health Policy

Understand key global health challenges and learn how policy responses to global health concerns are planned and delivered.
Short course

Global mental health

This module aims to introduce you to key issues in Global Mental Health and to provide a critical understanding of this emerging field (credit bearing).
Short course

Globalisation and health

Gain a conceptual and practical understanding of the multiple and complex links between various forms of global change and human health (credit bearing).
Short course

Health care evaluation

Introduction to the principles, concepts and methods of health care evaluation from a multi-disciplinary perspective (credit bearing).
Short course

Health Decision Science

Develop your understanding of the roles, pros and cons of different analytical models to support health care management decision-making (credit bearing).
MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Health in Humanitarian Crises

Gain the knowledge and practical skills to improve the health of populations and communities affected by humanitarian crises, taught online by experts at LSHTM.
Short course

Health services

Provide students with a range of ways of thinking about health services and health systems (credit bearing).
Short course

Health systems

Understand the function of health systems and undertake analysis of health systems in developed and developing countries (credit bearing).
Short course

Healthcare-associated infections

Gain the necessary knowledge to be able to develop a strategy to prevent healthcare associated and hospital infections (credit bearing).
Short course

History and health

This modules will enable you to employ historical perspectives in the fields of public health and health services (credit bearing).
Short course

HIV

Gain a broad understanding of the HIV epidemic and learn to analyse alternative therapeutic and preventive intervention strategies (credit bearing).
MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Infectious Diseases

Develop your understanding of infectious diseases through this degree, developed by academics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
Short course

Introduction to health economics

Aims to introduce you to the economic approaches used in public health and the scope and contribution of health economics (credit bearing).
Short course

Issues in global health policy

Gain an understanding of global health policy through the application of concepts, theories and methods to key global health issues (credit bearing).
Short course

Law and global health policy

Introduces you to the key concepts and practices in public health law at both domestic and international level (credit bearing).
Short course

Malaria

An introduction to parasites and their vectors, malaria as a disease, and how it can be controlled (credit bearing).
Short course

Managing health services

Develop your understanding of the concepts and approaches of management, managerial leadership and governance (credit bearing).
Short course

Medical anthropology in public health

An introduction to concepts, perspectives, theories and methods in medical anthropology, and their relevance to public health issues (credit bearing).
Short course

Nutrition and infection

This module aims to provide you with a basic understanding of the interactions between nutrition and infections (credit bearing).
Short course

Organisational management

Develop your knowledge and understanding of organisational structures and theoretical underpinnings of public health organisations (credit bearing).
Short course

Parasitology

Gain an understanding of the biology of parasites, vectors and the ways in which they can cause disease (credit bearing).
Short course

Practical epidemiology

Aims to provide you with a step-by-step guide to the practical stages involved in the planning and conduct of an epidemiological study (credit bearing).
Short course

Principles of biology

Will introduce you to the fundamental biological principles which are necessary for the Postgraduate Diploma and MSc in Infectious Diseases (credit bearing).
Short course

Principles of social research

This module aims to introduce the basic principles of social research practice and theory as applied to health (credit bearing).
Short course

Protocol Development

The aim of this module is to be able to produce the protocol for a trial (credit bearing).
MSc, PGCert and PGDip

MSc Public Health

This degree provides the knowledge and skills to address diverse public health issues in both high and low income environments.
Short course

Reporting and reviewing clinical trials

Covers writing up completed trials, guidelines for authors, and guidelines for readers to aid their critical appraisal of trial reports (credit bearing).
Short course

Sexual health

Aims to acquaint you with the theoretical and empirical aspects of the study of sexual health, and their application to public health practice (credit bearing).
Short course

Statistical methods in epidemiology

Gain key statistical knowledge and skills needed to analyse and interpret data from the common forms of epidemiological studies (credit bearing).
Short course

Statistics for Epidemiology

Aig to provide students with the key statistical principles that are essential for anyone studying epidemiology (credit bearing).
Short course

Trial designs

Learn to understand clinical trials and their fundamental characteristics and appropriate use in the testing of therapies (credit bearing).
Short course

Tuberculosis

This module will give you a broad understanding of TB control, with an emphasis on the biology and pathology of tuberculosis (credit bearing).
Short course

Viral infections

This module aims to undertake a systematic overview of the important viruses causing infections in humans (credit bearing).
Short course

Water, sanitation and hygiene

This module will enable you to understand the principles and practices that should underlie water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions (credit bearing).