One Health in Tropical and Infectious Disease Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Overview

At this MSc One Health in Tropical and Infectious Disease at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine you’ll investigate how diseases emerge, spread and can be controlled, with a particular focus on tropical settings and communities where resources are limited. 

Key Facts

You’ll explore subjects including zoonotic diseases, which pass between animals and humans, vector-borne infections, climate change, food security, urbanization, antimicrobial resistance and emerging health threats. By learning from experts and partners working directly within these settings, you’ll gain the knowledge and skills to make a meaningful contribution to improving health outcomes worldwide.

The programme combines specialist scientific knowledge with practical laboratory, field and computational research skills. You’ll learn how to investigate infectious diseases, analyse scientific evidence and consider approaches to surveillance, prevention and control.

Taught by research-active specialists, the MSc also provides an opportunity to develop your own research interests through an independent project dissertation, undertaken in Liverpool or potentially overseas.