Master’s degrees at LSTM

Our expert-led master’s degrees combine core knowledge with specialised options to match your personal interests and career goals.

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Build specialist knowledge and practical skills to tackle some of the world’s most pressing health challenges.

Explore master’s degrees in global health, public health, humanitarian health, tropical medicine, infectious diseases, One Health, clinical studie and research. Study in Liverpool, or online, depending on your course, and learn from experts working across research, policy and practice.

Our Master’s Courses

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MRes Tropical Health and Infectious Disease Research (January)

Develop advanced research skills while investigating important questions in tropical health and infectious disease.

Duration

One year

Starts

11 January 2027

Study mode

On campus

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Master of Public Health – Global Health (on campus)

Build the skills to understand global public health challenges and improve health through evidence, policy and practice.

Duration

One Year

Starts

September 2027

Study mode

On campus

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Master of Public Health – Global Health (Online)

Explore global public health challenges and develop practical skills through flexible online study.

Duration

2-5 years, flexible

Starts

September 2027

Study mode

Online

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MSc Humanitarian Action

Develop the knowledge and practical skills to respond to humanitarian crises in complex and changing environments.

Duration

One Year

Starts

September 2027

Study mode

On campus

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MSc Tropical Medicine and Clinical Research 

Develop expertise in tropical medicine and the skills to evaluate and contribute to clinical research.

Duration

2-5 years, flexible

Starts

10 January 2028

Study mode

Online

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MSc One Health in Tropical and Infectious Disease

Explore the connections between human, animal and environmental health and their role in tackling tropical disease.

Duration

One Year

Starts

September 2027

Study mode

On campus

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Discover our state-of-the-art, multi-million-pound teaching facilities, complete with flexible study zones and an immersive reality suite to elevate your learning.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a vibrant city steeped in history and brimming with modern energy. It offers great transport links, affordable living and a friendly multicultural community.

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Intercalated study

An intercalated master’s degree gives medical, dentistry and veterinary students the chance to take a year out from their main degree to study a specialist subject in more depth.

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Research shapes what you learn

Our teaching draws on research tackling some of the world’s most pressing health challenges. Learn from experts generating evidence, testing new approaches and working with partners to put research into practice.

See our research in action

Tiny Targets

Tiny Targets is an innovative vector control initiative led by LSTM and partners to reduce the spread of sleeping sickness. The aim was to reduce tsetse fly densities below the threshold that allows transmission of the disease.

TOCSINS Drug Trial

TOCSINS (Trial of Oral Combination Therapies for Snakebite Envenoming) is a groundbreaking project aiming to develop and test oral snakebite treatments that can be easily administered in the field

Urban SHADE

Urban SHADE is a three-year research initiative that aims to enhance the responsiveness of health services to extreme weather events in 10 urban informal settlements across seven cities in India, Kenya, and Sierra Leone.

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