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This is a joint programme provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and King's College London - Institute of Psychiatry. This course aims to provide people with the knowledge and skills to initiate, develop and oversee mental health policies and/or programmes in low-resource settings, and to conduct and critically evaluate research on global mental health.

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This course aims to develop the careers of doctors whose interest is the practice of medicine in tropical and developing countries. The course provides training in clinical tropical medicine at the Hospital of Tropical Diseases (a small but unique component), and a broad choice of study units to enable students to develop or extend interests in a wide variety of subjects relevant to the practice of medicine in tropical and developing country environments.

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This course aims to offer a broad training in the theories and methods of demography and the population sciences and in their application to health, social welfare and economic development. As well as enabling students to achieve technical competence in the methods of demography, statistics and epidemiology, emphasis is placed on studies of the social, cultural and economic determinants and consequences of population change.

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This course aims to provide a comprehensive theoretical knowledge of medical microbiology including the spread of micro-organisms, disease causation, diagnosis, treatment/prevention of pathogens of major significance to public health and advanced practical training in this diverse field. The increase in microbial infections worldwide is being compounded by the rapid evolution of drug-resistant variants and opportunistic infections.

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This stream provides a foundation for research and practice in environment and health. Awareness of the potential health effects of environmental exposures is growing among scientists, policy-makers and the public.

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This course aims to provide a broad understanding of infectious diseases through the core units in public health, biostatistics and epidemiology, and biology and control of infectious disease which are taken by all students, together with the subsequent opportunity for specialised study in areas of the student's own choice. A wide range of optional advanced units is available in specialised areas of Biology of Infection; Epidemiology, Statistics and Disease Control; Issues in Health Management; Major Infectious Diseases; Management and Evaluation; Health Policy, Social Science and Economics; Research Design, Management and Analysis; Critical Evaluation of Scientific Papers and Writing Grant Applications.

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This course aims to provide students with an in-depth understanding of health determinants and outcomes that transcend national boundaries, and the policy responses required to protect and promote population health in a globalising world. The course combines core modules on the economics and politics of global health (including such topics as global health diplomacy, trade and health and migration), global environmental change, and key issues in global health policy (such as access to medicines, virus sharing and tobacco control).

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This course aims to provide students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the issues involved in design, conduct, analysis and interpretation of randomised controlled trials of health interventions. The core study units are common to the Diploma and MSc courses.

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Aims to provide epidemiological training for professionals in academic departments, research units, or in the health services. The core component deals with methodology and basic concepts including measures of disease occurrence and association; study design; the role of bias and confounding in epidemiological studies; data-handling skills, statistical analysis of data-sets and application of these by computer; and essential skills for writing research applications and scientific papers.

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This course aims to train students from a variety of academic backgrounds to work as statisticians in various sectors including higher education, research institutions, the pharmaceutical industry, central government and national health services. It provides training in the theory and practice of statistics with special reference to clinical trials, epidemiology and clinical or laboratory research.

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