This course addresses policy and interrelated features of the health problems, issues, and concerns that transcend national boundaries. It explores the relationships between policy development in health, health care, education, economic development, and business management using a case-study approach. Ethical issues in global health are also addressed. Students use web-based synchronous learning platforms and learn with students from partner universities in transcontinental small groups (learning pods). The course involves lectures from faculty and leading experts in the fields of global health, along with group work and student presentations. The Foundations I final assignment will be in the form of a group document and a group presentation.

This course introduces students to the cultural, political, social and economic globalizing processes at work in today’s world.

This graduate course explores methodological perspectives in global health and how these shape research practices aiming to address pressing health care problems worldwide.  The global health perspective concerns the concepts and issues relevant to the application of research methods in different multicultural, multilinguistic, geographical, social. political, and resource settings within the context of overlapping disciplinary boundaries.  The course examines key concepts and issues relevant to conducting a range of research designs and methods in a variety of resource settings.

Students examine the field of health policy analysis – specifically as it relates to clinical, administrative and government policy. After establishing a framework by which to analyze policy — which includes consideration of stakeholders, pressure groups, values, institutions, and the media — students study various tools as a means of formulating and evaluating policy. The course applies techniques from business, political science, economics, sociology, epidemiology, and history. Specific policy topics will be presented as illustrations of this management art.

GLOB HTH 702 – Global Health Foundations II (in collaboration with Maastricht)
This course introduces students to project development and program management in global health. Building on policy analysis learnt in Foundations I, students use a case study approach to develop innovative proposals to address health disparities. Students learn to translate theory into practice in the context of global health. Incisive decision-making and cross-cultural negotiations are key elements of the process. Students continue to learn in transcontinental learning pods, participate in seminars led by faculty and other experts in the field, and make presentations which synthesize the course materials.

The program offers a diverse range of elective offerings in the Winter term, exploring issues including migration, climate change, health law, and allowing students to further pursue an area of interest. Students may select one of the core courses from one of the ‘Fields of Study’ (e.g. GLOBHTH 709 Refugee Health) or one of the following suggested electives:

• GLOB HTH 715 Independent Study Course
• HTHRSM 770 Mixed Methods Research Designs for Health Services and Policy Research
• PUBHLTH 706 Introduction to Health and Public Health Economics
• BUSADMIN 725 Managing Communications in Health Care
• BUSADMIN 750 Ethical and Legal Issues in Health Care
• SOCSCI 702 Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Research
• ANTHROPOLOGY 796 /RELIGIOUS STUDIES 786 Ritual and Symbolic Healing
• GLOBAL ST 725 Political Economy of Global Climate Change
• GLOBAL ST 732 Global Environment and Health Policy
• GEOG 734 Qualitative Approaches to Health Geography
• HRM 726 The Science and Practice of Knowledge Translation: Foundations

*Additional electives may be approved by the program to fulfill the elective requirement.

Learn about the business of global health, developing essential knowledge related to health, health care, economic development and education viewed through the disciplinary lenses of the business of health systems. You’ll acquire career-relevant skills ranging from healthcare marketing to strategic and financial decision-making at a macro level.

• BUSADMIN C710 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health Economics and Evaluation
• BUSADMIN C715 Health Care Funding and Resource Allocation
• BUSADMIN C722 Management of Population Health
• BUSADMIN C740 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health Care Marketing

Study critical challenges within global health from a health sciences’ perspective. Learning from a network of leading professionals, you’ll examine the threat to public health from existing, new, and re-emerging diseases that spread through immigration, travel, and global trade.

• MOLBIOL 6P03 Medical Microbiology
• MEDSCI 717 Vaccines and Vaccine Immunology
• GLOBHTH 707 Global Burden of Disease
• GLOBHTH 709 Refugee Health Policies and Practices

From international capital flows, to the role of corporations, to global social movements, this field examines how the ebb and flow of globalizing processes affect politics and policies, economic development, trade, health, health care, and education around the globe. Investigate and learn about the socio-economic and political moorings that inform and shape global health. Acquire career-relevant skills relating to policy analysis and formulation in a global context.

• GLOBALST 704 Global Social Policy
• GLOBALST 777 Global Governance
• GLOBHTH 708 Challenges in Global Health Equity
• GLOBHTH 709 Refugee Health Policies and Practices

Students develop an understanding of the co-evaluation of science/technology, local and global society; including traditional and contemporary theories and approaches to design and implementation of innovations in health. Students also acquire the knowledge to critically evaluate innovations, involve stakeholders from different sectors (public, private, government) both locally and globally – ensuring that the implementation of innovation is “responsive” to the evolving needs of the stakeholders.

Building on insights of the Module “Governing Health in a Global Context”, in which students are familiarized with current debates on the political economy of global health, in this track we use concepts from critical policy science, health economics, political economy, and health systems analysis to investigate in more detail how political processes and power relations, at the interplay of international and national governance and policies, contribute to the maintenance of the neo-liberal status quo.

Working alongside Public Health Masters students at the Universidad del Rosario, students develop an in-depth understanding of health needs of Colombians living in poverty, recent migrants and refugees. Colombia’s experience of hosting populations moving through its borders for economic, environmental and political reasons offers students learning on mental health, maternal-child health, gender and class, among social determinants that impact the health and wellbeing of people on the move. Applying state-of-the-art theoretical knowledge learned in the program, this field-based group-oriented opportunity offers students the ability to build practical skills within an immersive educational environment. 

Do you want to meet people around the world without prejudice and cultural distance? Are you curious about animal assisted intervention, one health, and one welfare? Do you want to learn more about trends and opportunities in eHealth and health technology? If yes, welcome to this exciting and interdisciplinary master program in global health!

Courses in the Epidemiology track include:

• Health Economics
• Infectious disease and surveillance
• Chronic disease and disability

Courses in the Maternal and Child Health track include:

• Basics of maternal and child health
• Health Economics
• Demography and population science

Courses in the Health Policy track include:

• Health innovations
• Health systems and policy research
• Health Economics

The objective of this course is to consolidate collaboration and decision-making in transcontinental teams. All students are required to complete this course, which includes the following components:

• Global Health Symposium requires each student to submit an abstract and present the plan for his/her scholarly paper/thesis research project in a real life, peer reviewed environment. The presentation is interactive and students are challenged to integrate critical feedback from interdisciplinary faculty members and experts in the global health field, as well as from their peers.
• Field Orientation is designed to deepen critical thinking and practice interviewing in a real life setting. It provides the opportunity to enhance assessment and cross-cultural working skills and learn about and practice systems mapping in a diverse and complex environment. The experience includes field visits and small group work, report writing and presentations, and allows an opportunity for personal reflection.

This course is designed as an opportunity for students to demonstrate in writing, their ability to integrate ideas that reflect current knowledge in Global Health. Students will identify a topic, and in consultation with an advisor, develop a proposal that is individualized to their area of interest. Students will complete a 30-50 page written scholarly essay on an approved topic. It is critical to the course-based MSc students to demonstrate a mastery of the theoretical and methodological understandings that have been acquired during the course work.

This course is designed to allow the student to tailor learning to a selected practicum in clinical, education, research or administration, which meets their specific educational needs. Students must work with an approved public or private organization working in a field of global health either locally or internationally. The placement links the theory, concepts, and health research methods taught in the program to real life-practices.