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Bridging the Gap between Research and Health Policy making
Description: Athe end of this course, students should be able to: 1. Understand the fundamentals of health policy framework; research-to-policy gap and strategies to overcome this gap 2. Explain how...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-07-12
Institution: Vietnam - Hanoi University of Public Health (HUPH)
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Strategy to Improve Supply and Utilization of Drugs and Vaccine for Tropical Diseases
Description: By the end of the course the student should be capable to: 1. Design a strategy to improve supply and utilization of drugs and vaccine for tropical diseases 2. Identify challenges of supply...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-03-08
Institution: Indonesia - Post Graduate Programme, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Infection Control: Theory and Practice
Description: By the end of the course students should be able to: 1. Explain the principles of infection control 2. Assess infection control implementation in various related health issue (TB, respiratory...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-04-05
Institution: Indonesia - Post Graduate Programme, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Equity and Health
Description: At the end of the module the students should be able to: •Analyze the relationship between contemporary normative statements in public health and health care, and the moral theories included in...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-09-15
Institution: Sweden - Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University
ECTS credit points: 3.5 ECTS credits
Advanced Topics in Health Economic Evaluation Methods
Description: At the end of the module the students should be able to: • critically review modelling approaches for cost-effectiveness, and analyze a given health intervention, in order to apply the most...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-12-03
Institution: Sweden - Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University
ECTS credit points: 7.5 ECTS credits
Vector Biology and Control in Ghana
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to 1. explain the biology and behaviour of mosquitoes and relate it to their control strategies 2. critically discuss the purpose and role of...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-06-21
Institution: Germany - Center for International Health at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Introduction to Health Geographic Information System GIS (WILL NOT TAKE PLACE 2021)
Description: At the end of the module, the participants are able to: • critically discuss the relationship between health and geography • explain spatial disparities in health • apply GPS methods to...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2022
Institution: Germany - Center for International Health at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Facing the NCD epidemic in low- and middle-income countries: from data to service delivery
Description: By the end of the course he participants should be able to: •develop evidence-based models for NCD service delivery •critically appraise (local) evidence of NCD burden and availability and...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-06-21
Institution: Germany - Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg
ECTS credit points: 2 ECTS credits
Implementation research for public health
Description: By the end of the course students should be able to: • Explain the characteristics of implementation research • Identify public health context, which possibly contain implementation research...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-04-19
Institution: Indonesia - Post Graduate Programme, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta
ECTS credit points: 4 ECTS credits
Chronic Diseases and the humanitarian response
Description: Overall learning objective: At the end of this course, participants should be able to understand the particular challenges presented by chronic diseases in emergency and/or unstable settings and to...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start:
Institution: Switzerland - Geneva Centre for education and research in humanitarian action
ECTS credit points: 2 ECTS credits
Social Determinants of Health from a Global Perspective
Description: At the end of the course students will be able to: 1. Discuss the characteristics of the main determinants that influence the health of populations from different areas of the planet 2.
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2020-10-06
Institution: Spain - Barcelona Institute for Global Health - University of Barcelona
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Mixed Methods in International Health Research
Description: Focusing on the joint application of quantitative and qualitative tools and methods, this course aims to train participants to conduct mixed methods research. At the end of the module the student...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-06-28
Institution: Germany - Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Public Health Systems - Challenges and Opportunities: the Case of Nepal
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to … • describe health care delivery system in Nepal and major sources of health information • explain major health problems including...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2020-05-04
Institution: Germany - Center for International Health at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Mental Health in Low- and Middle-Income-Settings ONLINE (tutor-facilitated)
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to … • Discuss epidemiology and concepts of mental health in different settings • Define frequently seen neuropsychiatric...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-03-15
Institution: Germany - Center for International Health at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Community Oriented Primary Care (in 2021 exceptionally delivered as synchronous webinar)
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: 1. Propose an intervention/ programme/ service for a common health problem, disease or condition for a community health team 2. Discuss and...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-05-03
Institution: Germany - Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Berlin
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