Postgraduate

MSc and Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health

Lead College

Academic Leadership: LSHTM

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is the University of London's major resource for postgraduate teaching and research in public health and tropical medicine, as well as the leading postgraduate medical institution in these subjects in Europe.

It has an international standing with a staff that has unique multidisciplinary and international experience.

This course has been designed by staff within the Department of Public Health & Policy.  This Department, which has a staff of about 150, carries out research in environmental factors and health, health policy, health promotion, and health services. The disciplines represented include medicine, epidemiology, nursing, pharmacy, statistics, operational research, history, economics, sociology, psychology and anthropology. In addition to the main activities in research and teaching, staff in the Department provide advice, consultancy and information on a wide range of public health and health care policy issues.

The Course Director is Cathy Zimmerman (BA, MA, MSc).  From 1993 to 1998, Cathy founded and managed a local non-governmental organisation in Cambodia and carried out primary research, both qualitative and quantitative studies and a legal analysis, on domestic violence. She worked with local projects in Cambodia on child abuse, and trafficking in women and children. She received a Master’s degree in Health Policy and Finance from the LSHTM in 1999. From 2000-2002, she led a multi-country research team carrying out a qualitative study, “The risks and consequences of trafficking in women and adolescents. Findings from a European study.” She co-ordinated and co-drafted the WHO Ethical and Safety Recommendations on Interviewing Trafficked Women. Cathy is currently leading a multicountry study examining the mental and physical health effects of trafficking using quantitative, qualitative and longitudinal methodologies, and assessing the dimensions of various health interventions, whilst completing a doctorate at the LSHTM on trafficking in women and health.