MSc Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The MSc Epidemiology equips students to investigate both infectious and non-communicable diseases: designing studies, applying statistical analysis methods and interpreting results. Teaching combines lectures, Q&A and practical sessions led by research-active staff, with links to organisations such as the World Health Organization and UK Health Security Agency.

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 Clinical Trials, Epidemiology in Practice, Extended Epidemiology, Epidemiology & -omics and Statistics for Epidemiology & Population Health. Terms 2 and 3 include Study Design: Writing a Study Proposal and Statistical Methods in Epidemiology (compulsory) plus options such as Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Diseases, Modelling & the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases, Social Epidemiology, Analysis of Electronic Health Record Data and Advanced Statistical Methods in Epidemiology, followed by a summer research project report.

Career pathways

Graduates enter medical research, academic medicine, public health and community medicine, epidemiological field studies, drug manufacture and government or NGO roles; example titles include Epidemiological Scientist, Statistician and Academic Clinical Fellow.

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