The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine offers a Master of Science in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research. The focus is on research skills. There is also a Master in Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV. These are both biomedical.

The aim of this course is to update researchers from developing countries with the latest advances in the field of sexual health research; and to build capacity to conduct multi-disciplinary research on sexual health in diverse settings. The focus is on building a broader and more holistic understanding of sexuality and sexual health and to capture the diversity of inter-related issues related to sexuality and sexual health. The course utilizes both qualitative and quantitative methods to increase the evidence base for sexual health programming.

The course (three days) has a methods element but the main focus is sexual health.

This 19-day course focuses on context-specific and gender-sensitive knowledge about sexuality and the linkages between gender, sexuality, and health policies and programs in Southeast Asia and China. Attention is given to exploring how conceptual frameworks, especially gender and sexuality theories, and methodological approaches can be applied to health policies and programs to enhance health outcomes, including sexual and reproductive health in the region. The curriculum is oriented towards public health and public health policy. However, despite a number of lectures on sexuality and gender, there appears to be little in the way of theory or research methodology.

An eight-day conceptual course that seeks to understand the implications of current debates on sexuality issues and the links between sexuality and culture and society in an Asian regional context. The goals of the Institute are to develop a deeper and more coherent theoretical understanding of sexuality and its connections with other issues, including gender and rights, and to examine assumptions on which practitioners base their work within a South and Southeast Asian context. The Institute is organised annually and brings together 20 individuals working on issues of sexuality, gender and reproductive health.

Targeted at senior government officials, NGO workers, and international development agency officers, this course is focused on the social and cultural aspects of reproductive and sexual health. The program also offers a short-course titled ‘Applied Health Research’. It is designed for public health professionals and aims to expand the participants’ understandings of different research methodologies. It also offers a short-course on ‘Gender and HIV/AIDS’, which aims to provide participants with an analytic framework to understand and find practical solutions to gender issues in HIV/AIDS programming in South East Asia. These courses are supported by the Ford Foundation and World Health Organisation.