MSc International Health Policy

The MSc in International Health Policy programmes have been organised so that students follow one of two 'streams': health policy or health economics. Students will have the opportunity to:

• analyse important health policy issues through the application of basic health policy and economic principles.
• broaden their understanding of policy issues through courses such as Foundations of Health Policy and Health Systems and Policies.
• specialise in economics through courses in Health Economics, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care, Valuing Health, and Public Economics.
• prepare for careers in health administration, health management, government departments or agencies, consultancies, international organisations, the commercial health sector (e.g. pharmaceutical companies, private health insurance industry); as well as employment in research, or further study for a PhD.

Your choice of course options will be made following discussions with your supervisors, but, very broadly, those who have been admitted to pursue the health policy stream might wish to take, for example, Health Economics, Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care and Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries, and those who have been admitted to pursue the health economics stream might wish to take Valuing Health, Quantitative Analysis I: Description and Inference, Quantitative Analysis II: The Generalised Linear Model, and Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation.  

Please refer to the Department Index of courses| for information about course suspension, withdrawal and capping (limited places) in 2012/13 as it becomes available.

Msc International Health Policy

Compulsory courses

(* half unit)

• Financing Health Care*
• Measuring Health System Performance*
• Dissertation

Two of the following courses:

• Foundations of Health Policy*
• Health Economics*
• Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy*

Options

Choose to the value of two full units from the following:

• Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Health Care*
• Health and Population in Contemporary Developed Societies*
• Health and Population in Developing and Transitional Societies*
• Valuing Health*
• Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries*
• US Health Policies*
• eHealth: Policy, Strategy and Systems*
• Key Issues in Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society
• Behavioural Public Policy*
• Public Economics I
• Advanced Health Economics*
• Introduction to Quantitative Analysis*
• Applied Regression Analysis*
• European Social Policy
• Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation*
• Behaviour, Happiness and Public Policy*
• Any other LSE course subject to approval of the course tutor
• Selected courses from the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine subject to academic approval

MSc International Health Policy (Health Economics)

Compulsory courses

(* half unit)

• Financing Health Care*
• Health Economics*
• Dissertation

Two of the following courses:

• Cost-Effectiveness Analysis*
• Valuing Health*
• Advanced Health Economics*

Options

Choose courses to the value of two full units from the following:

• Public Economics
• Introduction to Quantitative Analysis*
• Applied Regression Analysis*
• Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy*
• Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation*
• Health and Population in Contemporary Developed Societies*
• Measuring Health System Performance*
• Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries*
• US Health Policies*
• Pharmaceutical Economics and Politics in Developing Countries*
• Key Issues in Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society
• Financing Health Care in Developing Countries*
• Behaviour, Happiness and Public Policy*
• Any other LSE course subject to approval of the course tutor
• Selected courses from the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine subject to academic approval