Postgraduate

MSc and Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health

Is this course for me?

This degree covers the entire breadth of public health and provides a wide choice of study options. The four streams on offer include a general Public Health stream and three specialist streams:

• E&H: Environment & Health

• HP: Health Promotion

• HSM: Health Services Management

• Gen: You can choose not to specialise and take the General stream

Course summary

	You study	Study period	Cost (2009)
MSc	15 modules	2-5 years	£9,095
Postgraduate Diploma	6 modules	1-5 years	£5,360
Short courses	You can take individual modules as Short courses. This is an ideal option if you wish to update your professional knowledge or sample the programme. In 2008, the fees are £1,082 for core modules and £755 for advanced modules (£1,150/£800 in 2009).

Course aims

The course provides you with the knowledge and skills necessary to improve the health of populations, communities and particular groups within them, through:

• the promotion of health and prevention of diseases

• the provision and evaluation of treatment and care

• the investigation and control of environmental threats to health.

Prestige

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is the leading postgraduate medical institution in Europe in the subjects of public health and tropical medicine.

Excellent support

Comprehensive study materials include CD-ROMs and paper-based readings and exercises. There is email tutorial support and group discussions through web-based and email conferencing facilities.

Summary of key dates

Application deadline			30 June
Registration deadline			31 August
Course starts			October
Examinations take place			June