Health Policy welcomes the first cohort of Tianyang Scholars

from Tsinghua University

Tianyang-ScholarsOn 19th September, the first cohort of Tianyang Scholars supported by the Shanghai Medical and Innovation Development Foundation (SMIDF) were welcomed on campus by colleagues from the Department of Health Policy.

This group of Tsinghua students will be studying for one of the four Master's degree programmes run by the Department of Health Policy (see below). The week was busy with the department holding many other inductions to welcome all students from the 2023-24 class. This particular group will be graduating with a dual degree in Health after obtaining their MSc in Management Science from the Institute for Hospital Management  at Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University. SMIDF will be supporting up to 36 scholarships over a 3 year period for students.

The Tsinghua students can choose one of the following four programmes at the Department of Health Policy:

i) MSc International Health Policy 

ii) MSc International Health Policy (Health Economics) 

iii) MSc Global Health Policy 

iv) MSc Health Data Science.   

LSE’s Department of Health Policy is home to research and teaching on all aspects of health topics including health economics, global health, policy and technology and assessment. Read this page for an overview of their postgraduate programmes.