MSc Demography & Health at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The MSc Demography & Health studies population dynamics and their interaction with global health, including fertility, mortality, migration, ageing, health inequalities and population projections. Students follow either the Population Data Science pathway (computational demography and programming) or the Population Health & Policy pathway, and the degree is recognised by the ESRC and MRC for MSc + PhD funding.

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

All students receive core training in formal demography and quantitative methods: Demographic Methods, Population Studies, epidemiology and statistics modules in Term 1 (plus Programming on the data science pathway or Principles of Social Research on the policy pathway), Population Dynamics & Projections in Term 2, and options such as Survival Analysis, Machine Learning, Family Planning & Reproductive Choice and Analysing Survey & Population Data, followed by a summer research project.

Career pathways

Graduates work in public health, academic research, NGOs, reproductive health programmes, government statistical offices and policy, with employers such as UNFPA, UNAIDS, the Population Council, the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization.

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