Regional Resources: Africa

Last updated: October 2026

Africa isn't one labour market

To start planning for your career after your course, it's often useful to do specific research for your home country, as well as use the wider resources here.

We'd recommend identifying the following, and where their vacancies are listed:

Your national Ministry of Health
Your country's medical regulators
Your country's public health institute (or other body that does surveillance and epidemiology)
The national or international professional association or professional register for your field

Top 5 employers - selected countries

The 5 employers in Africa with most LSHTM graduates working for them, according to LinkedIn, by country where n >200.

To check the most listed employers for your country, go to https://www.linkedin.com/school/london-school-of-hygiene-&-tropical-medicine-cp/people/ and add your country to the 'where they live' filter. You can also filter for what they studied and other fields.

Kenya

Kemri- Wellcome Trust
UNICEF
Ministry of Health, Kenya
Kenya Medical Research Institute
University of Nairobi

Uganda

Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)
LSHTM
Makerere University
MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit
MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS

South Africa

University of Cape Town
University of the Witwatersrand
Stellenbosch University
The Aurum Institute
South African Medical Research Council

Nigeria

WHO
Institute of Human Virology Nigeria
CHAI
University of Ibadan
LSHTM

Professional Organisations in Africa

Look for professional news, awards, conferences, training, careers information and vacancies:

Public Health	Epidemiology and statistics	Clinical science	Pharma and commercial
WHO AFRO Africa CDC and regional centres Africa Public Health Foundation AFPHA AMREF Health Africa	AFENET	ASLM	Federation of African Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association – FAPMA

Live group Q&A

Come along to our live group Q&A for the region. They're held fortnightly, and are informal places to ask questions and offer answers, facilitated by an LSHTM Careers Consultant. Find the next session at Calendar: What's On.

Online forum Q&A

We have an online Q&A forum for careers on the DL General Zone in Moodle - ask questions and offer answers and see responses from the LSHTM Careers Consultant too.