Postgraduate

MSc and Postgraduate Diploma in Epidemiology: Principles and Practice

Lead College

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is the University of London's major resource for postgraduate teaching and research in public health and tropical medicine, as well as the leading postgraduate medical institution in these subjects in Europe.

It has an international standing with a staff that has unique multidisciplinary and international experience.

This course has been designed by staff within the Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (EPH) which houses the largest group of epidemiologists, statisticians and medical demographers in Europe, together with nutritionists, social scientists and public health practitioners, working on the diseases of major health importance in both the industrialised and the less developed countries.

The Course Director is Anne Tholen (BSc RGN MSc) who graduated in Mathematics at Exeter University and qualified as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital, London. She subsequently joined St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, where she managed the first UK antenatal serum screening service for Down's syndrome, also organising international training courses for health professionals in this field. In 1998, she obtained an MSc in Epidemiology at Erasmus University, Rotterdam (The Netherlands). She joined LSHTM in 1999. Her research interests include psychosocial aspects of antenatal screening, ultrasound screening for congenital abnormalities and maternal epilepsy.