MSc Climate Change & Planetary Health at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The MSc Climate Change & Planetary Health explores how environmental change affects human health and the systems that sustain wellbeing, covering the drivers of climate and ecological change, the mechanisms by which they influence health, and strategies to reduce risk. Teaching draws on LSHTM's Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health and the WHO Collaborating Centre on Climate Change, Health and Sustainable Development.

Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time or split-study  |  Study mode: full-time; part-time; split-study (in-person, London)  |  Intake: September 2026  |  Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Term 1 compulsory modules are Basic Epidemiology, Basic Statistics for Public Health & Policy, Environment, Health and Sustainable Development, Fundamentals of Climate Change & Planetary Health and Methods in Climate Change & Planetary Health, plus one option. Term 2 includes Planetary Health Research in Practice and Environmental Epidemiology (compulsory) with options such as Research Design & Analysis, Health Systems and Population, Poverty & Environment, followed by a summer project.

Career pathways

Graduates work in national and international public health agencies, climate and health organisations, government policy teams, NGOs, research institutes and consultancies, as researchers, policy advisers, environmental epidemiologists or analysts.

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