Master's Programme in Global Health

The programme defines global health broadly as an area of study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving health equity for all people worldwide. It has a particular focus on health problems in low and middle income countries (LMIC). It promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and involves disciplines both within and beyond the health sciences in the training programmes.

Content:

The programme includes compulsory and elective coursework, research and thesis defence.

It focuses on major health problems in LMIC affecting the most vulnerable population groups, appropriate responses to complex health related issues and health systems challenges to provide universal access to quality health care. Through interdisciplinary collaboration it offers research training in epidemiology, clinical and community trials, qualitative research, medical ethics, health economics, medical anthropology and biomedical sciences.

The students will be assigned supervisors at different departments at The Faculty of Medicine according to the thematic area and research approach selected.

The type research that can be performed for the master thesis includes literature reviews, research using existing data sets and primary data collection.