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

The MSc Tropical Medicine & International Health is designed for physicians practising tropical medicine and international health, covering the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases such as malaria and dengue, emerging pandemic threats, medicine in conflict and humanitarian settings, and antimicrobial resistance. All students take the Professional Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (DTM&H) in Term 1, worth 60 master's-level credits.

Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years split-study  |  Study mode: full-time; split-study (in-person, London)  |  Intake: September 2026 (January start possible with recognised prior DTM&H)  |  Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Term 1 is the compulsory Tropical Medicine, Parasitology and Public Health module (the DTM&H course with lectures, laboratory practicals and clinical sessions, examined in December). Terms 2 and 3 include five modules chosen from options such as Clinical Virology, Malaria: From Science to Policy and Practice, Conflict & Health, Diagnostic Bacteriology, Applied Communicable Disease Control, Neglected Tropical Diseases and Vaccine Immunology, followed by a summer research project.

Career pathways

Graduates pursue epidemiology and parasite immunology research, field research programmes, humanitarian and conflict-setting health care, NHS consultant and academic posts, and medical positions in low- and middle-income countries, with employers such as MSF, Save the Children and the MRC Unit The Gambia.

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