MSc Control of Infectious Diseases
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Key Information
Campus location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
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Study format
On-Campus
Duration
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Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
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Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2024
Introduction
MSc Control of Infectious Diseases
This is a multidisciplinary programme that bridges the fields of epidemiology, laboratory sciences and public health. It includes the option of choosing modules with a significant practical component and the opportunity to undertake a research project overseas. The programme will train students in all aspects of the control of infectious diseases and prepare them for a career in a range of organisations.
This programme will equip students with specialised skills that will facilitate a career in the control of infectious diseases as staff of health ministries, health departments, national or international disease control agencies, aid organisations or universities.
The majority of the research projects are performed with collaborating public health or research organisations and NGOs. Students are encouraged to take advantage of this overseas opportunity, which is crucial to the nature of the programme.
Objectives
By the end of this program students should be able to:
- investigate the transmission of endemic and epidemic infections
- select appropriate methods of control
- design, implement and evaluate co-ordinated control methods
- assess constraints of local public health delivery systems
- manage available resources in the context of the control of infectious diseases
- focus their efforts on particular geographical regions or specific diseases
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Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the institute website for more information.
Curriculum
Structure
Term 1
After orientation, students take two compulsory modules: Basic Statistics for PHP and Introduction to Disease Agents & Their Control, which focus on the life cycle and characteristics of infectious disease agents according to their principal transmission routes; the principal intervention strategies used to combat infectious diseases; and examples of successes, partial successes and failures in intervention programs against infectious diseases.
In addition, students take one of the following module combinations:
- Basic Epidemiology, and Introduction to Health Economics; and Health Policy, Process and Power (3 modules)
- Extended Epidemiology and Introduction to Health Economics or Health Policy, Process and Power (2 modules)
Terms 2 and 3
Students take a total of five study modules, one from each timetable slot (Slot 1, Slot 2 etc.). The list below shows recommended modules. There are other modules which may be taken only after consultation with the Course Directors.
Slot 1
- Designing Disease Control Programmes
- Malaria: From Science to Policy and Practice
- Health Care Evaluation
Slot 2
- Clinical Bacteriology 1
- Conflict & Health
- Design & Analysis of Epidemiological Studies
- Population, Poverty and Environment
- Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
Slot 3
- Applied Communicable Disease Control
- Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Current Issues in Maternal & Perinatal Health
- Economic Analysis for Health Policy
- Medical Anthropology and Public Health
- Spatial Epidemiology in Public Health
- Vector Sampling, Identification & Incrimination
- Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health
Slot 4
- Clinical Bacteriology 2
- Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
Slot 5
- Applying Public Health Principles
- HIV
- Integrated Vector Management
- Neglected Tropical Diseases
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Graduates from this programme enter a diverse range of positions and organisations across the fields of epidemiology, laboratory sciences and public health.
Below you will find just a few of the positions and organisations that our graduates from this course have entered after graduating:
Example job titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Doctor
- Editorial Assistant
- Epidemiologist
- Immunisation Consultant
- Infection Control Nurse
- Malaria Data Analyst
- Operational Researcher
- Pharmacist
- program Manager
- Public Health Officer
- Public Relations Executive