Course Description
Climate change affects diverse populations around the world. This programme will provide the skills necessary for students to be agents of change in the emerging interdisciplinary field of planetary health. It is primarily targeted at academics and professionals who want to gain knowledge of the complex systems that link the environment and human health.
Objectives
The programme will enable you to:
- apply the concepts of planetary health, global environmental change and sustainable development to inform and advocate for a planetary health perspective in global public health.
- assess key pathways and indicators by which changes to global environmental systems affect human health, including (but not limited to) heat stress, food systems, air pollution, infectious disease and biodiversity loss.
- critically appraise tools and methods available from disciplines including epidemiology, biostatistics, social and behavioural sciences, and data science, and assess their strengths and limitations for different planetary health research problems
- design and manage research projects in the fields of climate change and planetary health by using and combining tools from across disciplines
- evaluate the implications of planetary health research for health policy and practice in different country and population contexts
- assemble and communicate results of complex systems analyses in language appropriate for specialist and non-specialist audiences.
Entry Requirements
In order to be admitted to the MSc Climate Change & Planetary Health, an applicant must:
- hold either a first degree at Upper Second Class Honours (2:1) standard in a relevant discipline, or a degree in medicine recognised by the UK General Medical Council (GMC) for the purposes of practising medicine in the UK, or another degree of equivalent standard awarded by an overseas institution recognised by UK ENIC.
or
- hold a professional qualification appropriate to the programme of study to be followed obtained by written examinations and judged by LSHTM to be equivalent to an Upper Second Class Honours degree or above.
or
- have relevant professional experience or training which is judged by LSHTM to be equivalent to an Upper Second Class Honours degree or above.
Fees
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Module Details
Compulsory modules may include:
- Fundamentals of Climate Change and Planetary Health
- Advanced Climate Change and Planetary Health
- Applied Climate Change and Planetary Health
- Environment, Health & Sustainable Development
- Basic Statistics for Public Health & Policy
- Environmental Epidemiology
Elective modules may include:
- Introduction to Health Data Science
- Principles of Social Research
- Population, Poverty and Environment
- Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
Project report:
You will complete a research project on a relevant topic of your choice.
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