The program is 12 months, held over three terms: Fall, Winter, and Spring/Summer. Courses run through the Fall and Winter Terms; the Winter Term culminates with a two-week international Learning Symposium / Field Orientation in Manipal, India, conditions permitting. During the subsequent Spring/Summer Term, course-based students complete a global health work-integrated learning practicum and scholarly paper while thesis students work on their dissertation. Thesis students will often extend into the following Fall and Winter Terms.

The MSc Global Health program is interdisciplinary and inclusive. The program actively seeks to attract students from a variety of disciplines and with a diversity of academic, professional, and lived experiences. The program emphasizes the importance of:

• Effective writing skills
• Critical thinking
• Transnational collaboration

As an interdisciplinary program offered as a collaboration between health science, social science, and business, students from many backgrounds would be well-suited to succeed in this program.

We will include financial support, if available, within the letter of offer. Limited financial support is available for full-time students on a competitive basis. As there is no undergraduate program affiliated with the Global Health program, there are no Teaching Assistant opportunities for MSc students.

No. Given the intensity of a 12-month MSc program, students must be prepared to make a full-time commitment.

No, if you are completing your winter term at McMaster you must take a minimum of 2 courses within your core concentration and one other elective course. Elective courses can include courses from another concentration.

Yes. Course-based students who have maintained a B+ average in their first term may have the opportunity to complete their second term at partner institutions. We will provide details about this arrangement during the Winter term.

Alternatives will be found for students for whom travel to India might cause undue hardship.

Globalization affects everyone, so preparing students for a career that addresses a range of interrelated issues is beneficial for individuals wishing to work in all parts of the world. Additionally, there is a critical relationship among health, healthcare, education, economic development, business leadership and management that can have global impact, even if experienced at a local level.

The MSc Global Health program is an interdisciplinary program bringing together students from a variety of disciplines and with a diversity of academic, professional, and lived experiences. Career prospectives vary depending on an individual’s career goals and aspirations. Graduates of the program have gone onto pursuing other post-secondary education and working for non-governmental organizations as well as within both the public and private sectors. Some examples of different job roles that our alumni have pursued include: Program Coordinator, Data Scientist, Researcher, Research Coordinator or Assistant, Program Officer, Policy Analyst, Program Specialist, Registered Nurse, Clinical Research Project Assistant, and more. These are some examples of various career outcomes our students have attained since graduating from the program within different sectors of employment given their interests and academic and professional experiences.

The Global Health program is an in-person program that requires students to be present at McMaster for the Fall Term, and at the host location in the Winter Term (i.e., McMaster, or partner university should outbound mobility be your plan). Courses are in-person and thus, require attendance at McMaster. Students are required to attend all in-person classes and additional degree requirements.

MSc Global Health FHS Student Ambassador, Amal Qazi (MSc candidate):  qazia1@mcmaster.ca

PhD Global Health FHS Student Ambassador, Fazle Rabbi (PhD candidate):  rabbif@mcmaster.ca