Employability

On average, 90% of our master's graduates from the 2019/20-2022/23 cohorts were in employment or undertaking further studies 15 months after graduation (Graduate Outcomes Surveys, 2020-2023).

 

There is a shortage of well-trained medical statisticians and graduates from this course are in high demand. Graduates typically pursue careers in medical and epidemiological research, the pharmaceutical industry and various governmental institutions.

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:

Biostatistician
Clinical Programmer
Consultant
Fellow in Medical Statistics
Marketing Analyst
Medical Doctor
Medical Statistician
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Public Health Consultant
Quantitative Epidemiologist
Research Fellow
Data Manager

Example organisations:

Amnesty International
Cancer Research UK
Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU)
GlaxoSmithKline
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Medical Research Council
Ministry of Health
MRC Biostatistics Unit
National Collaborating Centre for Women's & Children's Health
Numerus Ltd
Veramed
Infectious Diseases Institute
Novartis

LSHTM Alumni

LSHTM’s alumni community includes over 35,000 graduates across more than 190 countries. It offers a lifelong connection to LSHTM and to each other.

We are proud of our global alumni network, which includes many notable members, such as:

• Tedros Adhanom, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), who completed his MSc in Immunology of Infectious Diseases
• Karina Rando, the Minister of Public Health in Uruguay, studied MSc Public Health – Health Economics stream
• Christopher Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Adviser to UK Government, studied MSc Epidemiology.
• Vanessa Bradford Kerry, founder of the non-profit Seed Global Health, director of the Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, and Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health for the World Health Organization (WHO), studied the  MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing

• Career support - the LSHTM Careers Service provide a range of services from 1-1 appointments to events and workshops.
• Alumni blogs - did you know LSHTM has over 35,500 alumni in more than 190 countries.
• International alumni chapters - find an LSHTM network of alumni near you from our over 30 chapters.