The Centre for Population Studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine offers a four-week short course in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research. The course introduces participants to the principles and methods of effective social and demographic research in this field. The sessions draw on students' own ideas and experience to focus on the design of policy-oriented research and on the use of qualitative and quantitative methods used to evaluate the impact of programmes. The course is suitable for researchers, health care providers and programme managers and others who wish to commission or use research results.