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Communication, Marketing and Social Media (former name: Social Marketing and Communication)
Description: After successfully completing the module, students will be able to: ● Apply key social marketing concepts, principles and ethical considerations ● Practise the various planning steps in...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-05-05
Institution: Switzerland - Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel
ECTS credit points: 6 ECTS credits
Health Policy and Systems Analysis
Description: After successfully completing the module, students will be able to: ● Apply systems thinking approaches and tools to analyze and address challenges in health system strengthening, incorporating a...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-06-16
Institution: Switzerland - Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel
ECTS credit points: 6 ECTS credits
Global Nutrition
Description: At the end of this module students should be able to ● Describe the nutritional challenges globally in our world today, and compare regional trends in nutritional indicators, and recognize...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-04-22
Institution: Norway - Centre for International Health, Universitetet i Bergen
ECTS credit points: 5 ECTS credits
Research Proposal Writing (not offered in AY2024-25)
Description: On successful completion of the module the student will be able to create a research proposal utilising the following skills: -Formulate clear and measurable research aims and objectives...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-03-10
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: 2025-05-05
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: 2025-07-07
Institution: Germany - Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg
ECTS credit points: 2 ECTS credits
Global Tuberculosis epidemiology and intervention
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: 2025-01-06
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: By the end of the course students should be able to: ● Identify and discuss relevant international aid and trade agreements, development commitments and financial mechanisms that inform regional...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-05-12
Institution: The Netherlands - Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Hospital-based interventions to contain antibiotic resistance in low-resource settings (Acronym AIM)
Description: Overall learning objective: At the end of the course participants should be able to develop and articulate action plans for containment of antibiotic resistance (ABR) in hospitals in low-resource...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2023-04-24
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: 2025-03-10
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: 2025-02-06
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: 2025-02-18
Institution: Spain - Barcelona Institute for Global Health - University of Barcelona
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Leadership and Management in Resource-limited Settings
Description: At the end of the module the students will be able to: ● Explain the concepts, ethics, and factors in limited resource settings influencing leadership and management. ● Identify...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2023-06-19
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: 2025-03-10
Institution: Germany - Center for International Health at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
ECTS credit points: 3 ECTS credits
Health in Detention
Description: At the end of the module the student should be able to: ● Define the main legal instruments, professional codes, and declarations designed to protect the rights of prisoners, detainees, and health...
Classification: advanced optional
Date start: 2025-12-08
Institution: Switzerland - Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel
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