Overview

Considering health services from a multidisciplinary perspective, you’ll engage with complex health and development challenges and design and manage interventions to improve the outcomes. Your new skills will help you make a lasting impact in the most marginalised groups in the world.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the Public Health for Development programme at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, students will able to:

Grow in-depth knowledge of a range of current issues and topics related to public health in low- and middle-income settings
Explore core public health disciplines including epidemiology, statistics, social science research, health economics and health policy
Gain experience with quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, understanding their strengths and how to apply them globally
Discover how to identify and assess health problems and evaluate actions designed to improve public health
Develop appropriate strategies to manage and promote health, collaborating in a team and across disciplines

Programme Structure

Modules include:

Extended Epidemiology

Health Policy, Process & Power

Principles of Social Research

Designing Disease Control Programmes

Economic Evaluation

Health Care Evaluation

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months
Part-time
- 24 months
- Flexible

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-21 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-07-26 00:00:00 , International
- Apply before 2026-08-31 00:00:00 , National

Language

English

PTE Academic

59

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

London, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Economics Public Health Community Development View 626 other Masters in Public Health in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

GPA

Lower Second Class

English requirements

PTE Academic

59

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IELTS

6.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

In order to be admitted to an LSHTM master's degree programme, an applicant must:
hold either a first degree at Second Class Honours standard in a relevant discipline, or a degree in medicine recognised by the UK General Medical Council (GMC) for the purposes of practising medicine in the UK, or another degree of equivalent standard awarded by an overseas institution recognised by UK ENIC.
or
hold a professional qualification appropriate to the programme of study to be followed obtained by written examinations and judged by LSHTM to be equivalent to a Second Class Honours degree or above.
or
have relevant professional experience or training which is judged by LSHTM to be equivalent to a Second Class Honours degree or above.

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

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Non-residents

29960 GBP / year

≈ 29960 GBP / year
Domestic Applies to you

Applies to you

Citizens or residents

13580 GBP / year

≈ 13580 GBP / year

Additional Details

Part-time

Home £6,470 /year
EU/Overseas £14,980 /year

Living costs

London

United Kingdom

1137 - 2157 GBP / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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Additional Details

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