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Health Systems and Human Health Security
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to ● Apply a People-Centered Approach for health systems security to design integrated policies and programmes ● Use and adapt tools to...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-05-19
Institution: Germany - Institute of International Health, Berlin
ECTS credit points: 2.5 ECTS credits
Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence
Description: This module will focus on capacity building on contemporary theories in the field of digital health and health care informatics with special focus on creating AI based solutions for health systems...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-04-07
Institution: Germany - Institute of International Health, Berlin
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Viral Infections
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: 1. Analyze the epidemiology of tropical viral diseases. 2. Describe the pathophysiology and clinical presentation of these diseases...
Classification: advanced optional
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Institution: USA - Global Medicine, University of Minnesota
ECTS credit points: 2 ECTS credits
Clinical Travel Medicine
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: 1. Provide pre-travel advice and clinical care for patients planning to travel to developing countries. 2. Provide post-travel evaluation...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start:
Institution: USA - Global Medicine, University of Minnesota
ECTS credit points: 2 ECTS credits
Bacterial, Mycobacterial & Fungal Infections
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: 1. Analyze the epidemiology of tropical bacterial, mycobacterial & fungal diseases, highlighting neglected tropical diseases. 2. Describe...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start:
Institution: USA - Global Medicine, University of Minnesota
ECTS credit points: 2 ECTS credits
Comprehensive Course on Latin-American Tropical Medicine (COCLATM)
Description: At the end of this course, participants will be able to: 1. Propose a public health intervention based on a tropical health problem, including community engagement. 2. Discuss etiology...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-04-21
Institution: Venezuela - Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela
ECTS credit points: 7 ECTS credits
Intensive course on operational epidemiology in tropical diseases (ICOETDI)
Description: At the end of this course, participants will be able to: 1. Propose a context specific public health intervention based on interdisciplinary fieldwork. 2. Discuss current challenges in the control...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-06-16
Institution: Venezuela - Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela
ECTS credit points: 5 ECTS credits
Foundations of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in Public Health (MEL)
Description: At the end of this course, participants will be able to: 1. Discuss and develop the intervention logic, including indicators, established targets for public health initiatives...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-01-30
Institution: The Netherlands - Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Health Promotion and Disease Control Strategies (HPDCS)
Description: At the end of this course participants will be able to: ● compare and contrast the approaches to the health promotion and control of communicable diseases (CDs) and non-communicable diseases...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-04-14
Institution: The Netherlands - Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Impact Evaluations for Health Systems Strengthening (IE-HSS)
Description: At the end of this course participants will be able to: ● Critically analyse how multiple stakeholder needs in the health system influence the design of an evaluation strategy, as well as...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-05-12
Institution: The Netherlands - Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Evidence for public health responses: Statistical Methods in Epidemiology (SME)
Description: By then end of the module participants will be able to: 1. Formulate research questions for epidemiological field surveys based on stakeholder information needs; critically appraise protocols, data...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-04-14
Institution: The Netherlands - Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Health Planning and Programming (HPP)
Description: At the end of the course, participants will be able to: 1. Elaborate a clear, concise and consistent, feasible and sustainable public health project proposal 2. Apply principles of people-centered...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-02-24
Institution: The Netherlands - Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam
ECTS credit points: 4 ECTS credits
Parasitic Infections
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: 1. Analyse the epidemiology of under-represented tropical infectious parasitic diseases. 2. Describe the pathophysiology and clinical...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start:
Institution: USA - Global Medicine, University of Minnesota
ECTS credit points: 2 ECTS credits
Advanced training course inLaboratory Tropical Medicine and Clinical Humanitarian Response
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: 1. Demonstrate practical laboratory skills in tropical medicine, to deliver clinical care in a variety of settings. 2. Simulate...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-05-19
Institution: USA - Global Medicine, University of Minnesota
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Digital Health Management
Description: After successfully completing the module, students will be able to: 1. Design a concept for a digital health intervention that draws on a user- and system-centred design principles and includes an...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-11-24
Institution: Switzerland - Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel
ECTS credit points: 6 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