Why Us?

LSHTM students in lab

RESEARCH TRAINING ENVIRONMENT

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

LSHTM is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health. We are a network of specialist centres, units and partners around the world, working together to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and the translation of knowledge into policy and practice at a local, national and global scale. Our disciplinary spread encompasses fundamental laboratory research, bioinformatics and clinical, epidemiological and social science research.

We have more than 4,000 students and 3,500 staff working in over 100 countries.

Mission and vision

Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

Our vision is to help create a more healthy, sustainable and equitable world for everyone, because we believe our shared future depends on our shared health.

Rankings

In 2017, the inaugural Center for World University Rankings by Subject placed LSHTM first in the world for tropical medicine research, second for parasitology and seventh for infectious diseases, public, environment and occupational health, and social sciences and biomedical.

LSHTM was named University of the Year 2016 by Times Higher Education and awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2017 in recognition of our response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. In 2022 we received a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for our response to COVID-19. LSHTM does not appear in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings as universities are excluded if they do not teach undergraduates.

St George’s, University of London
Part of City St George’s, University of London (CSG)

St George’s is the UK’s only university dedicated to medical and health sciences education, training and research. We have more than 5,000 students and over 800 members of staff.

Mission and vision

Our mission is to support research to be successful by providing an exceptional research environment, agile support and fostering excellence through collaboration, continual improvement and equal opportunities.

We will create a sustainable environment where research can succeed through collaboration, ambition, continual improvement, mutual respect and a commitment to equality.

Objectives for research

  1. Generating a positive social impact by improving diagnosis and treatment of disease
  2. Preventing disease by responding to new and emerging healthcare challenges through targeted interventions
  3. Developing our understanding of health through effective collaboration.  

Rankings

Through the DTP

Both LSHTM and St George’s are

  • specialist educational institutions
  • focussed on improving health and its determinants
  • engaged in high-impact research in key areas in the UK and globally,
  • and are actively engage with external stakeholders to shape health policy and practice and to improve health outcomes

This provides outstanding cross-institutional research training opportunities.

Our training programmes provide a high-quality research environment, an experienced and dedicated pool of supervisors and a suite of face-to-face and online transferable skills training modules to complement our specialist advanced short courses and postgraduate modules.

DTP students are registered at both institutions to ensure access to the breadth of opportunities available. Together, the programme and the environment provides world class integrated skills training and career development for biomedical and public health scientists to address key skills priorities.

The infrastructure the partnership can offer includes:

  • An extensive, modularised Master’s degree and specialist short course programme which enables PhD students to undertake advanced training to meet their specific needs, including courses in advanced quantitative and qualitative methods; health policy; genetic epidemiology and bioinformatics; decision and economic analysis of health interventions; modelling the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases; genomic medicine.
  • LSHTM Doctoral College and St George’s Graduate School transferable skills programmes.
  • LSHTM and St George’s have established and strategic relationships with partners locally (in London), across the UK, and globally. We benefit from our partnerships with  MRC units in The Gambia and Uganda. The collaborations and formal agreement with research and training partners are enhanced by access to large data sets and trials across low and middle income countries. More information about partnerships and formal collaborations is available on the institution’s web pages:
  • St George’s is a partner in the South London Genomic Medicine Centre, a preferred provider for the Health Education England MSc Genomic Medicine programme, and will provide access to training and infrastructure as part of Genomics England’s 100 000 Genome Project.
  • Computing infrastructure and statistical support which includes a High Performance Computer Cluster. LSHTM has one of the largest groups of statisticians and epidemiologists in the UK, has a strong track record of training in many areas of mathematics, statistics and advanced computational skills and is part of a research hub in statistical methods, providing students with access to specialised courses across the UK.
  • Lecture and seminar groups at both institutions.
  • Access to the Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network Programme.

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