Dr Melanie Morris
Associate Dean Education
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel St
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
I am Associate Dean for Education for the Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, overseeing our MSc programmes and short course provision, as well as working on education initiatives with partner institutions.
I am the lead for online training for the NIHR IHCoR-Africa and NIHR CARriSA projects.
I am a cancer epidemiologist by training, working for many years in the Cancer Survival Group at LSHTM. During that time I led the Cancer Policy Programme - a team investigating variations in cancer outcomes in the UK and in comparison with Nordic countries and then worked in the Health Services Research and Policy department on the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership. Most recently, I worked with the National Prostate Cancer Audit.
I graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Psychology and then taught in schools for several years before embarking on an MSc in Epidemiology at LSHTM, followed by a PhD here. I worked at UCL, in the Research Department of Behavioural Science and Health, before returning to LSHTM in May 2012 to work in the Cancer Survival Group.
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Since starting my PhD, I have taught on the Distance Learning MSc Epidemiology, on the Fundamentals of Epidemiology module, spending four years as Module Organiser for the module Writing and Reviewing Scientific Papers. I still teach on Fundamentals of Epidemiology, running live web-based seminars and marking assignments. I also teach in-house at LSHTM on Extended Epidemiology and I was co-Module Organiser for the Epidemiology in Practice course on the MSc Epidemiology until 2017. I then co-organised Issues in Public Health for the MSc Public Health until 2022.
I was Deputy Exam Board Chair for MSc Epidemiology and then for the DL MSc Epidemiology until 2022. I was a Digital Learning Champion during 2020-21. I am a Senior Fellow of AdvanceHE.
I am now Associate Dean for Education for the Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health.