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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: 2024-02-26
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: 2024-05-21
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
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: 2024-07-08
Institution: Germany - Center for International Health at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Equity and child (health) rights
Description: At the end of the module, the student should be able to: 1. Explain the basic concept of equity and equality in child health. 2. Demonstrate knowledge about child rights and entitlements and how...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2024-10-14
Institution: Germany - Witten/Herdecke University, Witten
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Global health in times of crises
Description: At the end of the course, participants should be able to: 1. Formulate possible actions to improve and sustain health at different levels, considering health equity, human rights, health system...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2022-04-24
Institution: Belgium - Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine
ECTS credit points: 5 ECTS credits
Suivi et évaluation de la Santé dans un contexte dynamique (S&E)
Description: Learning objectives: • Compare and critically discuss the functions of monitoring and evaluation of health programs within health systems • Contrast and adapt monitoring and evaluation plans...
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Date start: 2024-08-12
Institution: The Netherlands - Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Culture and psychopathology: An introduction to mental illness in a cross- cultural perspective
Description: At the end of the course, the student should be able to: • Design and promote mental health care sensitive to specific cultural contexts, and/or for different ethnic groups • Propose a...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2024-03-18
Institution: Norway - Centre for International Health, Universitetet i Bergen
ECTS credit points: 4 ECTS credits
Experimental Epidemiology
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: - Discuss the principles of clinical and field trials, - Plan clinical and field trails in accordance with the EU Directive 2001/20/EC...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2024-02-05
Institution: Norway - Centre for International Health, Universitetet i Bergen
ECTS credit points: 5 ECTS credits
Global Health responses in emergencies and humanitarian crisis
Description: At the end of the course, participants will be able to: 1. Describe what information and data is needed to initially assess a humanitarian crisis in order to plan a response accordingly. 2. Apply...
Classification:
Date start: 2024-04-15
Institution: Spain - Barcelona Institute for Global Health - University of Barcelona
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Migration and Health for People on the Move (MHPM)
Description: At the end of the module, the course participants should be able to: ● Appraise the major health challenges that migrants face before leaving, during migratory journey and upon arrival in the host...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2024-06-17
Institution: Switzerland - Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel
ECTS credit points: 2 ECTS credits
Health economics
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: - Apply the concepts of direct / indirect / intangible cost for measuring the economic costs of a health program. - Describe the beveridge...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2022-04-11
Institution: Morocco - École Nationale de Santé Publique
ECTS credit points: 2 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