Doing a master course is a great learning process. The four core modules form a great theoretical basis which Moodle and all the readings turn into a practical discovery and global exploration. The subsequent elective modules are more demanding as academic writing comes in! If, like me, you have not…
Over the New Year period I embarked on a great adventure doing a 3-week nursing observational period at the famous Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. Part of my afternoons I spent at their very well-equipped Degenshein Memorial Library to study for my elective modules and work on…
In my last academic year of MSc Global Health Policy at LSHTM (as a Distance Learner) I have chosen three modules (Conflict & Health, TB and Health Care Evaluation) and a MSc Project Report. The topic of my master’s thesis deals with ‘Access to Opioids for Medical Purpose’ in…
Thanks to the recommendation of several LSHTM professors I spent the first part of my summer doing courses: one was a 6-week on-line course on ‘Understanding Research Methods’ (www.coursera.org) which I greatly recommend and which will help you do your academic writing. The other course was…
During my in-house study experience at LSHTM -in the last days of March 2014- a film showing programme was organized in the Manson Lecture Theatre. “VISUAL MINUTES” were taken on a big screen.
The title of the lecture was “Communicating Health, Communicating Disease” and it was based on four…
I am currently studying the MSc Global Health Policy by distance learning. As part of the programme, we are offered the opportunity to study up to two modules at the School in London…”
For me as an MSc distance learner all the way from Georgia (Eastern-Europe) it was a…
Studying epidemiology and medical statistics in The Gambia
July 13, 2020
Pressure, pandemic and people: the first year of my PhD
September 15, 2020
COVID-19 Student Story: Ledor Igboh
July 2, 2020
COVID-19 Student Story: Sadaf Lynes
May 28, 2020
US Peace Corps Volunteers at LSHTM
May 19, 2020
