Tropical Health and Infectious Disease Research Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Overview

The MRes in Tropical Health and Infectious Disease Research from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine will provide training and practical research experience covering a breadth of research areas including basic, clinical and public health research with a focus on low resource settings. 

What you'll study

In the first part of the course, students will receive advanced and research-informed contemporary learning specific to their research interests giving them a grounding in important research themes and research methods, spanning basic research (e.g. parasitology, microbiology, host-pathogen interactions, vector biology), clinical research (disease diagnosis, management and control) and public health research (e.g. epidemiology, disease control, health determinants, history of global health, health systems, health policy, programme management).

Subsequently, students will then be given the freedom to become part of an active research group, with an opportunity to contribute, with the input of their supervisor, to the design and execution of a research project with the goal of generating and/or analysing data relevant to the field of tropical health and infectious disease research. A range of research projects will be offered including lab-, desk-, clinical- or field-based projects.

 At its conclusion students should have a unique insight to the process of research and an informed view of suitability and preferences for different aspects of academic, industrial or operational research.

Careers

Graduates are competitively placed to begin PhD programmes or seek employment within academic or private sector research programmes. Alumni of LSTM hold prominent positions in health ministries, universities, hospitals, and international organisations throughout the world. In terms of student development, the goal of the MRes in Tropical Health and Infectious Disease Research is the formation of highly skilled, independent researchers equipped to pursue high-level research or applied careers.  

Transferable skills developed during the MRes, particularly critical analysis skills will also set students in good stead to work for a diverse range of employers including NGOs and bilateral and multilateral organisations.