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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
Advanced training course in Migrant Health and Clinical and Laboratory Parasitology
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: ● Appraise the major health challenges that migrants face before leaving, during migratory journey and upon arrival in the host country...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2024-09-16
Institution: Italy - Clinica di Malattie Infettive e Tropicali, Università degli Studi di Brescia
ECTS credit points: 3.5 ECTS credits
Global Mental Health and Psychosocial Service Development
Description: At the end of the course, participants will be able to: 1. Contrast and analyse the most adequate approaches for the development, implementation and evaluation of mental health and psychosocial...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-03-31
Institution: Spain - Barcelona Institute for Global Health - University of Barcelona
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Evidence-informed Writing and Reasoning
Description: After successfully completing the module, students will be able to: ● Formulate and conceptualize a research proposal or a Master thesis proposal ● Critically evaluate and appraise different...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-09-08
Institution: Switzerland - Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel
ECTS credit points: 4 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: 2024-06-24
Institution: Germany - Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg
ECTS credit points: 2 ECTS credits
TropEd Core Course in Global Public Health
Description: Core courses introduce students to the fundamentals of international health as stated in the following aims. By the end of the core course students should be able to ● Critically reflect on the...
Classification: core course
Date start: 2024-09-02
Institution: Sweden - Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University
ECTS credit points: 35
Economics and financing for healthcare services in a developing country
Description: At the end of the module, the student should be able to: ● Critically appraise the health financing system in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) context; ● Explain the fundamental economic...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2024-09-09
Institution: Vietnam - Hanoi University of Public Health (HUPH)
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Epidemiology of NCDs, Risk Factors and Preventive Strategies (Burden of NCDs)
Description: At the end of the module, participants will be able to: 1. Identify/Characterise Non-Communicable Diseases and their risk factors 2. Understand the global burden of major NCDs, and risk...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-07-07
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