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Global Nutrition
Description: At the end of this module students should be able to 1. Appraise the interdisciplinary nature of nutritional problems in low-income countries 2. Differentiate regional trends in nutritional...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-04-12
Institution: Norway - Centre for International Health, Universitetet i Bergen
ECTS credit points: 5 ECTS credits
Research Proposal Writing (not offered 2020-21)
Description: At the end of the module, the student should be able to: ● Formulate clear and appropriate research aims and objectives ● Identify relevant theory and develop a conceptual...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-02-22
Institution: UK - Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
ECTS credit points: 5 ECTS credits
Health Systems Strengthening in Low and Middle-Income Countries
Description: The key objective of the course is to help participants develop an understanding of how health care systems work and what the key issues are in the current functioning of health and healthcare...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-05-24
Institution: Germany - Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg
ECTS credit points: 2 ECTS credits
Global Mental Health (GMH) in public health practice
Description: This course aims to provide students with the necessary tools to develop and to successfully implement evidence-informed decisions in GMH. At the end of the course, students should be able: • To...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-06-28
Institution: Germany - Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg
ECTS credit points: 2 ECTS credits
Global TB epidemiology and intervention (online)
Description: Main objective: At the end of the course, the student should be able to give an outline of the epidemiological situation of tuberculosis globally and current interventions to control the disease.
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-01-04
Institution: Norway - Centre for International Health, Universitetet i Bergen
ECTS credit points: 5 ECTS credits
Sexual and Reproductive health and Rights: Policy, Governance and Financing (SRHR POL)
Description: • Identify and discuss relevant SRHR, including HIV, rights and development-related international agreements, development commitments and financial mechanisms • Analyse how these international...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-05-17
Institution: The Netherlands - Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam
ECTS credit points: 4 ECTS credits
Health of Populations Affected by Humanitarian Emergencies
Description: At the end of the course, participants will be able to: Formulate, prioritise and review relevant humanitarian health interventions taking into account ethical issues, humanitarian principles...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start:
Institution: Switzerland - Geneva Centre for education and research in humanitarian action
ECTS credit points: 10 ECTS credits
Designing Strategies and Projects for Humanitarian Action
Description: At the end of the course, participants have developed the relevant competencies to design and adapt humanitarian strategies and projects in line with the specificities of each context. They will be...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start:
Institution: Switzerland - Geneva Centre for education and research in humanitarian action
ECTS credit points: 10 ECTS credits
Hospital-based interventions to contain antibiotic resistance (Acronym AIM)
Description: Overall learning objective: At the end of the course participants should be able to: - develop action plans for containment of antibiotic resistance (ABR) in hospitals in low-resource settings...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2020-04-20
Institution: Belgium - Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine
ECTS credit points: 5 ECTS credits
Applied Clinical Research
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to … • develop a clinical trial protocol (incl. formulation of research question and primary study objectives; identifying a suitable study...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-01-25
Institution: Germany - Center for International Health at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Global health organizations and programme management
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: 1. Develop strategic thinking and apply essential management and communication tools to build coherent and efficient global health...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-02-10
Institution: Spain - Barcelona Institute for Global Health - University of Barcelona
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Undernutrition and Food Security
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: 1 - Identify, assess and apply the necessary tools to address specific food security and nutritional needs in Low and Middle Income...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-03-15
Institution: Spain - Barcelona Institute for Global Health - University of Barcelona
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Leadership in Management in Resource-limited Settings
Description: At the end of the module the students should be able to: • Present the concepts, ethics, and factors in limited resource settings influencing leadership in management. • Identify their own...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-06-28
Institution: Vietnam - Hanoi University of Public Health (HUPH)
ECTS credit points: 2 ECTS credits
Academic Teacher Training for Health Professions
Description: At the end of the module, the participants are able to: • critically analyse different teaching models and strategies suitable for health professions education • apply a model for didactic...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2021-02-13
Institution: Germany - Center for International Health at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Current laboratory techniques in infectious diseases: Molecular detection and cloning of pathogens and Parasitology
Description: At the end of the course, student will be able to: • design laboratory settings for their own research projects • apply the basics of molecular cloning as a specific breakout-technique of...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2020-01-27
Institution: Germany - Center for International Health at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
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