MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing

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Programme Code: TIHPPF

Department: Health Policy

For students starting this programme of study in 2025/26

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (five units)

Exam sub-board local rules

Full-year programme taught jointly with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Students must take courses to the value of five units as shown below, and undertake a 10,000 word dissertation (value of one unit). It is mandatory that students take equal number of half-unit value courses (4:4 split) between the two institutions. It is required that exactly two first-term courses are taken at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The dissertation will be completed during the summer.

Course guides for all LSE courses can be accessed via the hyperlinks below. For information about LSHTM courses, the LSHTM module specifications can be viewed here.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.
Paper	Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 1	HP400 Financing Health Care (0.5)

Paper 2	(LSHTM) 1107 Health Services (0.5) or (LSHTM) 1117 Health Policy Process and Power (0.5) A
Paper 3	A B
	Obligation for all students to take one additional course to the value of 0.5 units at LSE from the following: HP401 Introduction to Health Policy and Politics (0.5)
	HP420 Health Economics (0.5)
	HP424 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (0.5)

Paper 4	Obligation for all students to take one additional course to the value of 0.5 units at LSHTM from the following: (LSHTM) 1107 Health Services (0.5) (LSHTM) 1117 Health Policy, Process and Power (0.5) A (LSHTM) 1123 Issues in Public Health (0.5) (LSHTM) 2001 Basic Epidemiology (0.5) # (LSHTM) 1103 Introduction to Health Economics (0.5) B
Papers 5 & 6	C D
	Two LSE courses from the following:
	DV465 Labour, Social Services and Development (0.5)
	HP402 Measuring Health System Performance (0.5)
	HP404 Global Health Policy: Institutions, Actors and Politics (0.5)
	HP405 Social Determinants of Health (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	HP407 Evidence Review and Synthesis for Decision Making (0.5)
	HP412 Global Health Security (0.5)
	HP421 Economic Analysis for Health Policy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (0.5)
	HP422 Health Care Economic Evaluation (0.5)
	HP423 Advanced Health Economics (0.5) #
	HP425 Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation (0.5) #
	HP428 Randomised evaluations of health programmes: from design to implementation (0.5)
	HP429 Behavioural Incentive Design in Health and Health Care (0.5)
	HP432 Mental Health Policy (0.5) #
	HP433 Health Care Regulation (0.5)
	HP435 Global Access to Medicines (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	HP436 Evidence Appraisal for Health Policy Analysis (0.5)
	HP437 Health Equity, Climate Change and the Common Good (0.5) #

	Or any additional LSE course listed under Paper 3:
	Paper 3 options list
Papers 7 & 8	E
	Two LSHTM courses from the following: (LSHTM) 1127 Evaluation of Public Health Interventions (0.5) (LSHTM) 1400 Health Care Evaluation (0.5) (LSHTM) 1402 Conflict and Health (0.5) (LSHTM) 1403 Organisational Management (0.5) (LSHTM) 1501 Economic Evaluation (0.5) C (LSHTM) 1503 Globalisation and Health (0.5) (LSHTM) 1504 Economic Analysis for Health Policy (0.5) (LSHTM) 1606 Health Decision Science (0.5) (LSHTM) 1701 Reviewing the Literature (0.5) (LSHTM) 1803 Sociological Approaches to Health (0.5) (LSHTM) 1807 Health Promotion Approaches and Methods (0.5) (LSHTM) 1808 Health Systems (0.5) (LSHTM) 2342 Design and Evaluation of Mental Health Programmes (0.5) (LSHTM) 2401 Family Planning Programmes (0.5) (LSHTM) 2402 Statistical Methods in Epidemiology (0.5) (LSHTM) 2407 Epidemiology of Non-Communicable Diseases (0.5) (LSHTM) 2417 Design & Analysis of Epidemiological Studies (0.5) (LSHTM) 2437 Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Diseases (0.5) (LSHTM) 2459 Current Issues in Safe Motherhood and Perinatal Health (0.5) (LSHTM) 2472 Social Epidemiology (0.5) (LSHTM) 3135 Spatial Epidemiology in Public Health (0.5) (LSHTM) 3189 Ethics, Public Health and Human Rights (0.5) (LSHTM) 3195 Epidemiology and Control of Malaria (0.5) (LSHTM) 3198 Applying Public Health Principles in Developing Countries (0.5)
	Another LSHTM course (not listed above) with permission.
Paper 9	HP409 Dissertation for MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing (1.0)

Paper 3 options list



HP401 Introduction to Health Policy and Politics (0.5)
HP420 Health Economics (0.5)
HP424 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy (0.5)

Footnotes

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

A: Paper 3, HP401: HP401 Introduction to Health Policy and Politics may not be combined with LSHTM 1117 Health Policy, Process and Power.

B: Paper 3, HP420: HP420 Health Economics may not be combined with LSHTM 1103 Introduction to Health Economics.

C: Papers 5 & 6, HP422: HP422 Health Care Economic Evaluation may not be combined with LSHTM 1501 Economic Evaluation.

D: Papers 5 & 6: Another LSE course (not listed above) with permission.

E: Papers 7 & 8: Up to 1 unit of LSHTM option courses may be taken as the distance learning version of the course.

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

For any pre-requisites on LSHTM courses, check LSHTM course specifications.

Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.