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Fundamentals of Global Health

During this course, you will learn about migration, health equity, sustainability, and about the methods and ethics of global health research. Through the use of case studies from around the world, you will be able to explore how global health issues can be investigated and how research findings can subsequently be translated into policy and practice.

If you are a postgraduate student or a medical doctor, this course will enable you to deepen your understanding of global health issues and to expand your global health knowledge. Recent graduates with an interest in global health, specifically in the fields of medicine, biomedical sciences, life sciences, social sciences or developmental studies will equally benefit from studying the topics and issues presented. The course is also aimed at health professionals working in or with low- or middle-income countries, biomedical and social science researchers, health personnel in government and non-government institutions, members of international agencies, and consultants.

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

  • Understand the health challenges of today’s globalizing world
  • Apply what you learn directly to your own research
  • Gain insights into methods used in global health research
  • Find out how population health is affected by global trends

In particular, you should be able to:

  • Describe and define the scope and principles of global health
  • Describe health-related development goals and targets
  • Understand basic health indicators
  • Describe demographic trends and population growth
  • Describe social determinants and inequalities in health
  • Understand the theory of epidemiological transition
  • Describe approaches to health equity
  • Describe the use of mixed methods for global health research
  • Describe legal frameworks for global health/global health governance
  • Understand ethical issues in global health research
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Our Professors

Kerstin Klipstein - Grobusch MSc PhD

Further details on Prof. Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch’s activities and positions can be found here

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Joyce Browne MD MSc

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The Fundamentals of Global Health course changed my perception for my work and the way I deal with my daily business. It highlighted the responsibility that I have toward the world to develop innovative affordable medicines. In addition, I am so delighted to understand the critical situation and the need to provide basic nutrition to the third world and how the political status affects people health and wealth. I now have a better ‘umbrella view’ understanding of why we develop medicines and why we should secure patient access to medicines worldwide.

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Quick overview

Start date: 17 Oct 2022

1.5 ECTS

Weblectures, exercises, discussion

Duration: 3 weeks

ECTS

English

Workload: 14 hrs-per-week

Online learning, with guidance and support

490

How would you like to study Epidemiology?

Single courses

One of the unique aspects of our learning approach is that you can choose to take an individual course rather than the whole MSc program. Experience one course from the MSc, having the same faculty and classmates with the convenience of self-enrollment.
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Online

In the full part-time MSc Program, you gain extensive knowledge and practical skills in patient-oriented research design, quantitative analysis and its application to human or veterinary medicine. The MSc Epidemiology Online starts in February and September.
Online Program

Face-to-Face

If your prefer to study in a face-to-face setting, you might want to consider applying for the identical fulltime face-to-face 1,5 year program in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

This program also starts in September, with the same course offerings.

Face-to-Face Program
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Questions? Contact us

By email
For questions about online learning info@elevatehealth.eu
For program information, admission & content msc-epidemiology@umcutrecht.nl

By phone
For questions about online learning +31 (0)85 4885381
For program information, admission & content +31 (0)88 7569710

Master Structure

  • 8 core courses
  • 3 specialization tracks
  • Research project

Specializations

  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • Veterinary Epidemiology
  • General Epidemiology

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The study of Epidemiology

Epidemiology has grown to be an indispensable asset for researchers, clinicians and practitioners. Far reaching in its impact. It is the foundation of evidence-based medicine for the individual patient and the cornerstone of public health policy for societies.

Epidemiology as a scientific discipline is an excellent option; for the doctor, who wishes to be armed with both biomedical knowledge and statistical wisdom when looking for the right patient care of their individual patient. Also for the public health professional, who faced with global health questions does not wish to lose sight of the impact for the individual. And for the veterinarian who is faced with challenges that play a national role yet must look at the impact on individual cases.
 
 

A Master of Epidemiology at Utrecht University

Epidemiology at Utrecht University is uniquely placed to offer you the broad context of epidemiology across human pharmaceutical and veterinarian branches. Not least through having the only faculty of veterinary medicine in the Netherlands, its content has been assembled across an impressive faculty from the Health sciences; Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS) and the interfaculty Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS). In addition, Utrecht Science Park accommodates Utrecht Life Sciences, a strategic alliance between academia, public institutions private organizations and government in order to drive innovations in human and veterinary health care.

 
 

Online Education

It goes beyond the obvious advantages of online education, in the flexibility of allowing students to study at their institute of choice wherever their research or practice is. Online education at Utrecht University is where every student counts, each opinion being valued. It specifically helps students to develop skills on how to give and get the best out of feedback on assignments or research projects.

The MSc Epidemiology from Utrecht University has a unique history. The learning platform was custom built for this program. It was built with a global classroom in mind. Taking into account how to incorporate individual experiences and allow each unique perspective to make the learning experience the best possible and truly global. The content was meticulously converted to an online variant to take advantage of this.

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