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Study Details: MSc one year full-time or two years by split-study
Rapid global spread, emerging variants, overwhelmed healthcare systems – these are just some of the devastating consequences an infectious disease can have. As a specialist in this field, you’ll help shape the global health landscape, investigating and managing infectious diseases.
Over one year (full-time) or two years (part-time / split-study), you’ll develop specialist skills and bridge the fields of epidemiology, laboratory sciences and public health. If you want to influence research, policy and control, this truly multi-disciplinary programme is the perfect match for you.
After core training in fundamental concepts of infectious diseases agents and their control, you will be able to tailor your studies through a range of modules to match your future career aspirations. The module choice encompasses disease agents such as Malaria, influenza, HIV, TB, neglected tropical diseases and many others along with approaches to their control.
Each module is taught by experienced academic researchers of international standing often with global networks of collaborators that will benefit your studies. You’ll also hear from guest speakers covering topical issues, from climate change and health policy to case studies and emerging technologies applied to a variety of diseases.
To take your learning from taught theory to research, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your own research project from a wide range of topics related to infectious diseases. You’ll be able to tailor the topic to suit your professional interests guided by academics or overseas collaborators.
Many past students’ research projects are exceptional and have contributed directly to published research outputs and included exciting collaborations with public health, research organisations, or NGOs.
A student must normally satisfy the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine general entrance requirements and the additional programme specific entrance requirements as follows:
The normal minimum entrance qualification for registration on a Master’s programme is at least one of the following:
Applications with an appropriate technical qualification, or equivalent qualification and experience from overseas, are also welcomed.
Additionally for the MSc Control of Infectious Diseases, some prior public health/overseas experience is advantageous and will be considered but is not necessarily a prerequisite for this course.
Any student who does not meet the minimum entry requirement of a second-class honours degree or equivalent qualification but who has relevant professional experience may still be eligible for admission. Qualifications and experience will be assessed from the application.
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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:
Example job titles:
Students take two compulsory AB1 modules:
In addition, students take one of the following AB1 module combinations:
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.
C1 slot
Designing Disease Control Programmes
Health Care Evaluation
Malaria: From Science to Policy and Practice
C2 slot
Conflict & Health
Design & Analysis of Epidemiological Studies
Diagnostic Bacteriology
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 and Hygiene, and Health
D2 slot
Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
E slot
Applying Public Health Principles
HIV
Integrated Vector Management
Neglected Tropical Diseases
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