MSc Veterinary Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The MSc Veterinary Epidemiology is a joint LSHTM and Royal Veterinary College programme, running for over twenty years, combining epidemiological principles and communicable disease epidemiology with veterinary epidemiology, surveillance, disease control and spatial analysis in a one health approach. A veterinary background is not required, and a three-month research project often draws on RVC's Veterinary Epidemiology, Economics and Public Health Group.

Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years split-study  |  Study mode: full-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 modules are Extended Epidemiology, Statistics for Epidemiology and Population Health, Principles of Epidemiology and Surveillance, and Research Skills and Epidemiological Aspects of Laboratory Investigation. Term 2 includes Statistical Methods in Epidemiology, Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases and Modelling and the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases plus Economics of One Health or Spatial Analysis in Epidemiology; Term 3 includes Applied Veterinary Epidemiology and the research project.

Career pathways

Graduates work in ministries of agriculture and food, veterinary investigation laboratories, animal disease research institutes, university veterinary faculties and international organisations such as FAO, WHO and WOAH, or continue to PhD study.

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