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Social Determinants of Health and Planetary Health; designing interventions for sustainable livelihoods
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: 1. Apply WHO framework for social determinants of health to a complex problem to illustrate the interconnectedness and interdependence of...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-08-16
Institution: Germany - Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Berlin
ECTS credit points: 6 ECTS credits
Health Information System and Geographic Information System for hospital management
Description: - At the end of this training, the student should be able to: - Explain the role of the Information System in decision making - Analyze the organization of the Hospital Information System - Apply...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2020-11-09
Institution: Morocco - École Nationale de Santé Publique
ECTS credit points: 2 ECTS credits
Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases
Description: At the end of the course the participants should be able to: 1. Appraise the characteristics and epidemiology of NCDs in LMICs including their complex relationship with communicable diseases 2.
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-03-08
Institution: Belgium - Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine
ECTS credit points: 5 ECTS credits
Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management
Description: At the end of the module students will be able to: • Discuss key concepts of emergency risk management • Analyze common public health consequences of disasters and principles to manage these...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-07-12
Institution: Vietnam - Hanoi University of Public Health (HUPH)
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Non-physician health care workers: leading change in global health
Description: At the end of the module, the student should be able to 1. Analyse roles and responsibilities of non-physician health care workers (npHCW) in the context of Universal Health Coverage. 2.
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-06-21
Institution: Germany - Witten/Herdecke University, Witten
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Santé et Droits Sexuels et Reproductifs (SDSR)
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: - Critically analyse key concepts of Sexual and Reproductive health and Rights within low and middle income settings - Explain and present...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-03-08
Institution: The Netherlands - Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Core Course of the MSc in International Health
Description: By the end of the core course students should be able to critically reflect on the collection, analysis and appraisal of qualitative and quantitative data relevant for the improvement of health...
Classification: core course
Date start:
Institution: Germany - Center for International Health at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
ECTS credit points: 24 ECTS credits
Global Oncology: Clinical, social and political challenges (in 2021 exceptionally delivered as synchronous webinar)
Description: At the end of the module students will be able to • develop an appropriate strategy for a country or region of choice to improve the response to the growing burden of cancer diseases • Debate...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-03-22
Institution: Germany - Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Berlin
ECTS credit points: 2 ECTS credits
Qualitative Methods in Public Health Research
Description: At the end of the module, the participants will be able to: • Recognize contributions of qualitative methodology in public health studies in order to incorporate further methodological approach in...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2020-02-15
Institution: Mexico - Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, National Insitute of Public Health
ECTS credit points: 4 ECTS credits
Practice Oriented Project (POP) – for practical settings
Description: After successfully completing the module, students will be able to: • Use and evaluate different tools for problem and situation analysis and project planning, for an identified managerial...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-09-13
Institution: Switzerland - Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel
ECTS credit points: 10 ECTS credits
Qualitative Research Methods for Global Public Health (online)
Description: The course aims to prepare the students for the use of qualitative research in global public health. On successful completion of the module, the student will be able to: · Design and implement a...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-02-01
Institution: Norway - Centre for International Health, Universitetet i Bergen
ECTS credit points: 5 ECTS credits
Climate change and health: initiating and leading transformational change
Description: At the end of the module, students will be able to: - Recognize the basic mechanisms of climate change and other key dimensions of planetary health, explain its main drivers and observed and...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-03-06
Institution: Germany - Center for International Health at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Culture and psychopathology-Mental Illness in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Description: This is a 3 week course, and this is how the 3 weeks are distributed: 1. week reading before the start of the course (which will include an interview assignment with a report) 1. week...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-03-22
Institution: Norway - Centre for International Health, Universitetet i Bergen
ECTS credit points: 4 ECTS credits
Health Economic Evaluation Methods
Description: At the end of the module the students should be able to: - Discuss different features of the most common health economic evaluation methods in relation to the basic economic theory and the...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2022-02-07
Institution: Sweden - Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Policy and Practice of Global Child Health
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to 1. Analyse a child health related clinical or public health problem and apply main concepts of Global Child Health 2. Describe communicable...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-07-05
Institution: Germany - Witten/Herdecke University, Witten
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits

Fifteen years of the tropEd Masters in International Health programme: what has it delivered? Results of an alumni survey of masters students in international health

L. Gerstel1, P. A. C. Zwanikken1, A. Hoffman2, C. Diederichs3, M. Borchert3 and B. Peterhans2

1 Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2 Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
3 Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charite – Universit€atsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany