Looking into postgraduate training?

There are many courses and opportunities available to those who wish to further their post-graduate global health education.  Below is a list of the main centres and courses in the UK.

We are very grateful to The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene for producing and updating this list, and for allowing us to share it here on our website.

See below for opportunities for study overseas and for online learning programmes, and for links to several good websites listing current post-graduate courses and training for further information.  

Please let us know if you would like any other courses or centres to be added to this page.

Courses Overseas

The Copenhagen School of Global Health, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Copenhagen School of Global Health offers courses for health promotion and development through interdisciplinary and collaborative research, teaching and capacity building around the world.  Courses are taught in English.

Summer School:

•  Summer School in International Health
•  Summer School in Global Health Challenges

International Health:

• Health and Disease in Low and Middle Income Communities
• Health Care Systems in Low and Middle Income Societies
• HIV/AIDS – Prevention, Care, Treatment and Advocacy
• HIV-Related Diseases, Treatment and Care
• Non-Communicable Diseases
• Health in Emergencies and Refugee Health

Nutrition:

• International Nutrition and Health

Disaster Management:

• Introduction to Disaster Management Theories and Risk Reduction and Introduction to Disaster Response and Recovery
• Risk Assessment Method and Disaster Management and Coordination
• Geo Information in Disaster Situations
• Health in Emergencies and Refugee Health
• Water Supply & Sanitation in Emergencies and Shelter and Settlements in Disasters

Harvard School of Public Health, Massachusetts, USA

Mission Statement:  The Department of Global Health and Population seeks to improve global health through education, research, and service from a population-based perspective.  The Department of Global Health and Population offer a 2-year master of science program (SM2) in addition to the Master of Public Health program (MPH).

Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands

KIT (Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen) offers a wide range of training and courses in the areas of health, development, information management, culture and international business. This page offers you an overview of KIT’s Training opportunities.

• Masters in Public Health/International Course in Health Development; Health Systems Policy and Management track

• Master of Public Health – Track Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights track 
• Master of Public Health – Track HIV and AIDS track
• Master in International Health (MIH)
• Netherlands course in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (NTC) (3 months)

There are also a range of short courses:

• Advanced course on monitoring and evaluation: innovations in a dynamic health systems environment (2 weeks)

• Advanced course on health sector reforms and financing: towards Universal Health Coverage (2 weeks)

• Using Geographic Information Systems in disease control programs (GIS) (2 weeks)

• Qualitative methods in health systems research (3 weeks)

• Analysing disrupted health systems (2 weeks)
• Health policy and financing (2 weeks)
• Human Resources or Health (2 weeks)

• Control strategies for communicable and non-communicable diseases  (3 weeks)

• Sexual and reproductive health and rights including HIV and AIDS (3 weeks)

• Sexual and reproductive health and rights including HIV and AIDS (e-learning) (8 weeks)

• Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: organising effective responses (3 weeks)

• Analysing dynamics of HIV and AIDS epidemics and prevention (3 weeks)

•  Health sector responses to HIV: innovations and synergies (2.5 weeks)

•  HIV: Policy, Governance and Financing (e-learning) (3 weeks)

Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Formally the  Swiss Tropical Institute (STI), the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH)  offers teaching, research and services in the field of International Health Development.

TropEd Master Programme

Centre for Global Health, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland 

TCD’s programme has a strong emphasis on understanding how to strengthen health services at a systems level with a programme designed to develop and sharpens critical thinking, analysis and practice.

A mix of students from low, middle and high income countries, provides for significant opportunities to learn across different cultural and contextual situations.  Students from diverse backgrounds including clinical, biomedical, social science and other backgrounds consistently question each others assumptions and provide a rich dynamic for explorative learning.  The Centre for Global Health puts a strong emphasis on the importance of staff who have lived in low and middle income countries and have practical experience of global health challenges.  Its concern to move ‘upstream’ and address the social, system and environmental causes of clinical problems. It feels is a defining feature of the programme.

• MSc in Global Health
• PhD in Global Health

Online Learning

Global Health Education Consortium

GHEC is a consortium of faculty and health care educators dedicated to improving the quality and efficiency of global health education. GHEC members are active in more than 90 health profession schools and training programs in the United States, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean.  The Consortium works to promote and facilitate global health education in four areas – curriculum and training materials development, clinical training, career development, and education policy.  They provide over 80 high quality modules on a wide variety of topics which students can review either on their own or in instructor-led courses.

Global Health eLearning Center

The Global Health eLearning Center developed by the USAID Bureau of Global Health is a response to repeated requests from field staff for access to technical public health information. The Global Health eLearning Center provides free Internet-based courses that:
* Provide useful and timely continuing education for health professionals
* Offer state-of-the-art technical content on key public health topics
* Serve as a practical resource for increasing public health knowledge

Links to Postgraduate Education Websites

www.healthtraining.org This is a site maintained by Medicus Mundi in Switzerland. It has an extensive list of post-graduate courses in international health-related topics. You can search their site by course subject, location and institute.

http://www.ucas.com 
The central admission centre for Higher Education courses with details on application procedures, links to universities and colleges, and an on-line course search facility

www.prospects.ac.uk This a website offering a guide to planning, funding and finding post-graduate courses in the UK. It is useful for a general overview of post-graduate education and also lists UK courses.