Master's Programmes
Courses to help you understand, navigate and influence global health
LSE offers unique interdisciplinary opportunities to further your studies in global health at a university with a worldwide academic reputation. Students in our graduate programmes come from all over the world and upon graduation have successfully found employment in a wide variety of government, non-government, UN, academic, and private sector organisations.
The information on this page summarises all the Master's programmes LSE offers with relation to global health. Programmes are organised by host Department.
Programmes offered in the 2025/2026 academic year:
Studying an MSc in Social Anthropology at LSE will give you a solid understanding of the subject, both in terms of its ethnographic diversity and its theoretical development. This programme is ideal for graduates with a degree in any discipline. Even if you have no prior knowledge of anthropology, you’ll enjoy developing a critical and comparative understanding of human societies and cultures over time.
MSc Anthropology and Development
This MSc in Anthropology and Development provides a unique perspective on the complex challenges facing our world today. The programme offers you a comprehensive study of how anthropologists evaluate, criticise and contribute to development (whether "planned" or "unplanned"), and how they understand globalisation and other economic transformations.
The MSc Gender is a flexible degree which offers you the opportunity to develop expertise in the fullest possible range of gender theories, and stresses the significance of gender for knowledge and research design.
You are trained in how to treat gender as an object of study, as an analytic approach or perspective and as a way of thinking across disciplinary boundaries. A key focus of the degree concerns the ethical as well as intellectual issues that arise from practicing gender studies. In addition to the compulsory courses of the degree, you are able to choose from the fullest range of options, from within and outside of the Institute, in order to develop your own gender studies pathway and focus on key research areas.
MSc Gender, Policy and Inequalities
The MSc Gender, Policy and Inequalities provides advanced study in the application of gender theory to social policy, planning and practice, with an interdisciplinary approach. It aims to give you a grounded understanding of the concepts and theories relevant to a gender analysis of social policy in a global and comparative context, with an emphasis on the issues facing either less economically developed or European countries. The teaching focuses on stimulating independent thought on gender and gender inequalities.
MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation
This distinctive interdisciplinary programme focuses on integrating the theoretical analysis of gender with questions of globalisation and development.
The programme aims to provide a firm understanding of economic and social processes that shape the contemporary global world and their gendered outcomes. It considers diverse analytical tools and theoretical approaches for the analysis of development and globalisation from a uniquely gendered perspective.
MSc Gender, Peace and Security
This unique, multidisciplinary programme is concerned with the ways in which women and gender are understood in relation to, and affected by, regional, national and global peace and security processes in conflict and post-conflict settings.
Located in the Department of Gender Studies, you will fully participate in the academic and social life of the Department and also benefit from exposure to LSE’s diverse community of researchers. In addition to your academic study, you will benefit from LSE’s lively public events programme. The MSc will make use of critical gender theory and empirical research that are international and transnational in scope, and will draw on interdisciplinary texts and perspectives from theory, policy, and practice.
LSE-PKU Double Degree in Environmental Policy, Technology and Health
Organised jointly by LSE and Peking University (PKU), the Double Master’s Degree in Environmental Policy, Technology and Health is a unique and exciting interdisciplinary advanced programme combining the strengths of PKU in environmental science and health with the strengths of LSE in environmental economics and policy.
The programme comprises the Master of Environmental Management at PKU in Year 1, while in Year 2 at LSE students can choose one of the following MSc programmes: MSc Environment and Development; MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation; MSc Environmental Economics and Climate Change.
MSc Environment and Development
The MSc Environment and Development is intended for those with a primary interest in the linkages between environment and development. It provides a rigorous training in the social science dimensions of environmental and development policy, management and evaluation, within a developing country context.
MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation
The MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation analyses the nature and efficacy of different approaches to environmental policy and regulation. It considers the influence of different forms of environmental policy and regulation at the international, national and local levels and the role of environmental evaluation techniques. Issues are addressed within a distinctive social science framework that uses theory to understand practice, thereby equipping you with the skills you need to work on environmental policy and regulation in the public, private or NGO sectors.
MSc Environmental Economics and Climate Change
The MSc Environmental Economics and Climate Change programme aims to deliver a well-developed understanding of the economics, science and policies associated with climate change, as well as a broad foundation in environmental and resource economics. It delves into the conceptual economic foundations and the practical tools of analysis, including state-of-the-art quantitative methods.
The MSc Global Health Policy draws on LSE's world leading strengths in politics and economics to analyse a range of global health policy issues. Engaging with both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, you will gain insights into a range of approaches to global health as you learn crucial skills in policy making, health economics, sociology, politics, demography and more.
MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing
The MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing is a joint programme with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The programme teaches you to critically analyse issues in health policy, planning and financing and enables you to devise appropriate health policy responses.
MSc International Health Policy
In the MSc International Health Policy programme, you analyse current and emerging health care problems and the range of health policies being developed to address them through the application of health policy and economic principles. You also learn to analyse health systems from an international and comparative perspective.
MSc International Health Policy (Health Economics)
The MSc International Health Policy (Health Economics) is a stream of the MSc International Health Policy programme which allows you to study and specialise in advanced health economics. Using health economic principles you examine important health policy issues through application of the current literature and learned skills in statistical methods and econometrics as applied to the health field.
MSc Health and International Development
The MSc Health and International Development helps to understand the complex relationships between health and inequality, in and across low- and middle-income countries. It explores the key issues and inter-relationships that exist between health, global politics, and international development.
The programme supports students to evaluate multi-disciplinary evidence on a range of global health issues and interventions. Topics include population health, sexual and reproductive health, health in crises, infectious diseases, chronic diseases and beyond. Courses reflect contemporary and emerging health and development issues, including pandemics, conflict and humanitarian crises and labour shortages.
MSc International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies
The MSc International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies programme focuses on understanding the dynamics of humanitarian and complex emergencies as well as providing a solid foundation in development issues such as poverty reduction, wealth creation and the expansion of human capabilities.
LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in the Political Economy of Development
The Double Degree in the Political Economy of Development gives you the theory and practical tools to drive such transformations forward by enabling you to understand why some societies have succeeded and others have failed.
A distinctive feature of the programme is the Development Management Project, a team-based consulting exercise for real-world, public, private, and non-profit organisations, such as the World Bank, Oxfam, PricewaterhouseCoopers, GIZ, CARE, DFID, Save the Children, UNICEF, or the Emerging Markets Group. You spend the first year at Sciences Po and the second year at LSE.
This programme draws on the range of expertise available within the Department, as well as related academic departments, in order to provide an advanced training in social research methodologies, combined with the opportunity to focus on a substantive social science area.
The syllabus for the MSc goes some way beyond the ESRC's requirements for the first year of a 1+3 PhD programme, and it is designed as training for doctoral research and as pre-professional training for careers in social research in the public and private sectors.
The MSc is eligible for ESRC funding as the "1" (first year) of the following "1+3" PhD programmes: Gender (MPhil/Phd Gender) and Population (MPhil/PhD Demography (Social/Formal)
MSc Philosophy and Public Policy
The MSc Philosophy and Public Policy provides a solid foundation in the conceptual and normative questions underlying public policy formulation. LSE’s distinctive approach to philosophy and public policy is one in which philosophical analysis is continuous with the scientific study of political, social and economic problems. Topics span an enormous range of policy areas, including health care, development, social security and climate change.
The MSc Behavioural Science programme is a world leading master's degree which teaches you how to use behavioural science to change human behaviour in corporate and public environments.
The wide-ranging curriculum includes core courses on the fundamentals of behavioural science and research methods, including experimental and quasi-experimental approaches. Optional courses cover topics such as health, consumer behaviour and happiness. You’ll be taught by behavioural science specialists working at the forefront of research, and benefit from our close links with the LSE Behavioural Lab – a leading research facility in the field.
You’ll have the option to take a Wellbeing specialism on this programme (which can be added to your degree title). You’ll complete comprehensive training on the science of wellbeing and learn how it can be applied to policy design, appraisal and evaluation.
MSc International Social and Public Policy
This broad-ranging programme examines how societies respond to global challenges resulting from social, demographic and economic change, and issues around poverty, migration and globalisation. Looking at low, middle and high-income countries, you’ll gain the skills to identify key social challenges and analyse the social and public policies designed to tackle these issues.
We approach the policy process from an international, interdisciplinary and applied perspective. You’ll delve into the differences between social policy development and implementation in different countries and the roles of stakeholders such as governments, NGOs, families and markets.
Building on this foundation, you’ll then follow one of seven streams.
You can take either the general stream or choose a specialist stream:
- MSc International Social and Public Policy (Development)
- MSc International Social and Public Policy (Education)
- MSc International Social and Public Policy (Migration)
- MSc International Social and Public Policy (Non-Governmental Organisations)
- MSc International Social and Public Policy (Research)
- LSE-Fudan Double Master's in International Social and Public Policy
The MSc Culture and Society gives you the opportunity to develop expertise in the social study of cultural processes. Its ethos emphasises tight integration of leading-edge cultural theory, innovative methodologies and attention to the most significant cultural trends and practices, globally and locally. For example, we study areas such as textual or visual analyses of cultural texts; ethnographies of culture and media industries; studies of urban space, design or city culture; consumption and consumer culture; multi-culturalism and ethnicity; gender and sexuality; class and cultural capital.
The MSc Human Rights is an interdisciplinary programme that explores sociological, political, philosophical and legal perspectives on human rights. The core curriculum introduces you to the standards and structures of human rights. You’ll engage with some of the most compelling issues and debates in human rights today. The programme critically addresses the ability of international human rights to drive global justice in today’s world. Typical themes include genocide, humanitarian intervention, labour rights, gender and sexuality, race and apartheid, and transitional justice. The programme blends theory and practice, enabling you to apply your learning to real-life scenarios.
MSc Inequalities and Social Science
The MSc Inequalities and Social Science is a comprehensive and wide-ranging programme, providing an introduction to a range of interdisciplinary approaches to the social scientific analysis of inequality.
As a result of dramatic economic and social changes over recent years, the study of inequality has rapidly developed as one of the most important areas of interdisciplinary social scientific study. This programme is associated with the LSE's International Inequalities Institute and includes expertise from leading academics in the Departments of Sociology, Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Government, Law, Social Policy, Media and Communications, Gender, and Statistics.
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