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Global Health summer school

This course will provide you with in-depth insights into the growing complexity of the burden of disease.

Course description

Global Health is a discipline that tackles health issues affecting low- and middle-income countries and high-income countries (LMICs and HICs): problems that transcend national boundaries.

In a globalizing world, health issues become increasingly complex and challenging. A two-way flow between developed and developing countries with regards to sources, expertise and knowledge, involving stakeholders from different disciplines as well as patients, can potentially generate effective and innovative solutions to deal with the health issues at hand and to create equitable global health systems.  

The Global Health summer school course is designed for (advanced) BSc students who are motivated to gain in-depth insights into complex health issues in a global context. The course consists of lectures and assignments. The lectures provide insight into the growing complexity of the burden of disease, challenges facing healthcare systems, and child and reproductive health, all approached in a global context. Course assignments aim to provide students with the opportunity to acquire and practice key research skills, gain insight into career opportunities, and broaden their knowledge of issues in Global Health.

For your reference, you can download the 2025 preliminary course syllabus.

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About this course

Course level

  • Advanced

Course coordinator

  • Mitzi Waltz

Contact hours

  • 41

Language

  • English

Tuition fee

  • €938 - €1500

Additional course information

  • Learning objectives

    By the end of this course, students will:

    • Gain critical knowledge of major global health issues
    • Demonstrate taking an interdisciplinary approach to health, disease, disability and related problems in a global health context
    • Demonstrate the necessary skills to collaborate with peers from different disciplines 
    • Know how to obtain reliable and critical data to develop a topic of discussion
    • Demonstrate the skills needed to bring into debate topics and perspectives related to global health
    • Gain an understanding of the skill profiles needed in diverse global health careers
  • Course schedule and programme

    Here you can download the preliminary syllabus for 2025. 

    *Please note that this is a preliminary syllabus and that it can still change before the start of the course.

  • Forms of tuition and assessment

    Forms of tuition

    This course will be taught through lectures, group discussions, presentations and interviews.

    Assessment


    The final mark of the course will be based on an interview, debate, presentation and portfolio.

  • About the course organiser

    Dr. Mitzi Waltz is programme coordinator for the Research Masters Global Health at VU Amsterdam. Her field of particular expertise is Disability Studies, with a speciality in autism and a keen interest in disability rights.

  • Faculty and department

    Faculty of Science (BETA)

    Athena Institute

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