MSc One Health: Ecosystems, Humans and Animals at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The MSc One Health, delivered with the Royal Veterinary College, examines the connections between human, animal and environmental health, including zoonotic disease emergence, food safety and outbreak response, using systems thinking and transdisciplinary approaches. It concludes with a four-month independent research project.

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

What you will study

Term 1 compulsory RVC modules are Foundations of One Health, Principles of Epidemiology and Surveillance, Research Skills and Statistical Analysis, and Infectious Disease Emergence and Control. Term 2 includes Economics of One Health, One Health: Situation Analysis and Systems Thinking and Medical Anthropology and Public Health, plus one option such as Environmental Epidemiology, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Globalisation and Health or Spatial Analysis in Epidemiology; Term 3 is the research project.

Career pathways

Graduates work in academic research, national and international policy (e.g. local government, the UK Animal and Plant Health Agency, ministries of health), One Health coordination with the FAO, and disease control programme management.

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