The below structure outlines the proposed modules for this programme. Programme and module specifications provide full details about the aims and objectives of each module, what you will study and how the module is assessed.

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• LSHTM module specifications
• LSE module specifications

Structure of the year

Term 1 (September - December) consists of ten teaching weeks plus one Reading Week* in the middle of the term. Followed by the Winter break.

Term 2 (January - March) consists of a further ten weeks of teaching plus a Reading Week in the middle of the term. Followed by the Spring break.

Term 3 (April - September) consists of five weeks of teaching for the final module, and the project report.

*Reading Week is a week during term where no formal teaching takes place. It is a time for private study, preparing for assessments or attending study/computer skills workshops. There are two Reading Weeks at LSHTM: one in November and the other in February.

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Term 1

All students must take one compulsory module from each institution:

• Financing Health Care (LSE)
• Health Services or Health Policy, Process & Power (LSHTM)

Students must also take one additional semi-compulsory module from each institution from the following:

• Basic Epidemiology (LSHTM)
• Introduction to Health Economics (LSHTM) - may not be taken in conjunction with Health Economics (LSE)
• Issues in Public Health (LSHTM)
• Health Policy, Process & Power (LSHTM) - may not be taken in conjunction with Introduction to Health Policy & Politics (LSE)
• Health Services (LSHTM)
• Health Economics (LSE) - may not be taken in conjunction with Introduction to Health Economics (LSHTM)
• Introduction to Health Policy & Politics - may not be taken in conjunction with Health Policy, Process & Power (LSHTM)
• Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries
• Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (note: this is a Term 2 option, so if students select this as their semi-compulsory choice, they can take a different LSE option from an approved list in Term 1)

Terms 2 and 3

Students take two additional modules from each institution, including (but not restricted to) the following subject to availability:

LSHTM

C1

• Economic Evaluation (LSHTM) - may not be taken in conjunction with Health Care Economic Evaluation (LSE)
• Health Care Evaluation (LSHTM)
• Sociological Approaches to Health (LSHTM)

C2

• Conflict & Health (LSHTM)
• Design & Analysis of Epidemiological Studies (LSHTM)
• Health Systems (LSHTM)

D1

• Economic Analysis for Health Policy (LSHTM)
• Evaluation of Public Health Interventions (LSHTM)
• Organisational Management (LSHTM)
• Medical Anthropology adn Public Health (LSHTM)

D2

• Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (LSHTM)
• Globalisation & Health (LSHTM)
• Health Decision Science (LSHTM)
• Reviewing the Literature (LSHTM)

LSE

• Advanced Health Economics (LSE)
• Behavioural Incentive Design in Health and Health Care (LSE)
• Economic Analysis for Health Policy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LSE)
• Evidence Appraisal for Health Policy Analysis (LSE)
• Evidence Review and Synthesis for Decision Making (LSE)
• Global Health Policy: Institutions, Actors and Politics (LSE)
• Global Health Security (LSE)
• Health Care Economic Evaluation (LSE)
• Health Care Regulation (LSE)
• Health Equity, Climate Change and the Common Good (LSE)
• Labour, Social Services and Development (LSE)
• Measuring Health System Performance (LSE)
• Mental Health Policy (LSE)
• Randomised Evaluations of Health Programmes: From Design to Implementation (LSE)
• Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation (LSE)
• Social Determinants of Health (LSE)
• Any of the semi-compulsory LSE options listed above not already taken.

In all cases, each student's full set of module choices must be approved by the Programme Directors at LSE and LSHTM in order to confirm that students' choices fit with their stated career aims and form a coherent set of modules for the MSc. Students must also meet the entrance requirements for each particular module. Guidance will be provided in the programme handbook, to outline the key differences between recommended modules and provide comments where relevant on optional modules - to help both students and tutors differentiate between and make module choices most appropriately.

Project report

As the last major component of the programme, students undertake a research project on a relevant topic – assessed through a written dissertation. The project should be an independent piece of work, appropriately guided and supported by a supervisor and other relevant staff. Substantive work, including any travel or fieldwork, should start after the exams in the summer.

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Please note: Should it be the case that you are unable to travel overseas or access laboratories in order to complete your project, you will be able to complete an alternative desk-based project allowing you to obtain your qualification within the original time frame. Alternatively, you will be able to defer your project to the following year.

Changes to the programme

LSHTM will seek to deliver this programme in accordance with the description set out on this programme page. However, there may be situations in which it is desirable or necessary for LSHTM to make changes in course provision, either before or after registration. For further information, please see our page on changes to courses.