Careers
Graduates from this programme enter a diverse range of positions in public health, research, NGOs, health programmes, health services, government, policy and planning.
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).
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Urvashi shares how studying the MSc at LSHTM helped shape her journey in global health and public policy.
Employers and job titles examples for this programme
As a top-ranked institution for public health, our graduates' knowledge, skills and qualities are in demand in the field. Our graduates go on to various roles with a wide range of employers. Below you will find just a few of the positions and organisations that our graduates from this programme have entered:
- Example job titles:
Academic Researcher
Clinical Fellow in Medicine
Clinical Trials Assistant
Data analyst
Director and Health Impact Assessment Consultant
Doctor and Senior Health Officer
Ebola Emergency Response Manager
Epidemiologist
Health Improvement Leader
Health Policy Officer
Health Promotions Specialist
Monitoring and Evaluation Associate
Policy Adviser
Project Manager
Senior Executive for Service Planning and Care Integration
Short term Consultant, World Health Organisation
Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD Fellow
Health Economist- Example organisations:
Association for Young People's Health
BioGen
Cancer Research UK
Department of Health
GlaxoSmithKline
Health Protection Agency
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johnson & Johnson
KPMG
Malaria Consortium
Marie Stopes International
Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
Public Health England
NHS England
World Health Organization
United Nations (UN)
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
- 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.