MSc Demography & Health (funding available)
Postgraduate Study at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
This MSc is designed for students wishing to acquire a technical understanding of the subject and also the interaction of health and population determinants such as sexual relations, childbearing and life expectancy. This is Europe’s only course in demography with an emphasis on health. Previous students have gone on to work in NGO’s, reproductive health programmes and health services research.
Further details: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/prospectus/masters/msdh.html
Funding is available for this course. Please click here for further information.
Course Duration
Full-time for one year or part-time over two years. Students taking the course over two years can choose to attend part-time throughout both years (this involves attending the School at least two days each week during term-time) or by split study.
Objectives
By the end of this course students should be able to: demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of scientific, evidence-based approaches to the study of population issues; critically assess and apply these approaches to inform development, health and population programmes; formulate research questions and use demographic and health data, and appropriate methods of analysis, to address them; identify causes and consequences of population change and relate these to underlying population dynamics; demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of demographic behaviour in social, economic and policy contexts; critically assess and apply findings of population studies to health and social policy, and demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of major population trends, including historical trends, in developed and developing countries.
Programme specifications - showing which of the various elements of the Course support and achieve each of these specific Objectives.
Entrance Requirements
Either a Second-class Honours degree in any discipline from a recognised university. Applicants with an appropriate technical qualification and work experience, or equivalent qualifications, are also welcome to apply and their applications will be considered.
Fees:
For 2011/12: Home fees full-time £5,300. Overseas fees full-time £16,500
Start month:
September
Funding information
- Funding applies to:
- EU applicants (including UK)
Contacts and how to apply
- Administrative contact and how to apply:
How to apply:
Applicants wishing to be considered for School scholarships are advised to apply by 1 March 2012. Please note that this is not a closing date.
Further details can be found at: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/masters/mscid.html
For any enquiries, please contact LSHTM Registry at:
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7299 4646 E-mail: registry@lshtm.ac.uk
