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).

 

Graduates from this programme go into research positions in academia and industry, and further training such as PhD study. 

Below you will find just a few of the positions and organisations that our graduates from this course have entered:
 

Example job titles:

Biomedical Scientist
Director
Education Officer
Healthcare Scientist
Junior Immunologist
Laboratory Assistant
Medical Copy Writer
Pharmacist
Research Assistant
Research Funding Officer
Science Teaching Assistant

Example organisations:

Boots Pharmacy
ICC Lowe
Infectious Disease Research Corporation
Inter-Media Europe
King's College London
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Medical Research Council
Public Health England
Queen Mary University's Societies
Sainsbury's
T2S UK Limited
The Medical Research Council
Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute - Florida
Vertergi Ltd
NHS

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.