Language
  • English
Format
  • Full time
Start date
  • September
Location
  • Maastricht
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Global Health

Broaden your perspective, challenge assumptions, and critically assess policies in global health. Rethink health challenges and explore how local and global dynamics shape health. Gain the skills to address health inequities and make a meaningful impact.

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Why this programme

Do you want to be able to unpack complex global health challenges? Are you driven to understand and address health inequities globally? Then Global Health could be the programme for you. This interdisciplinary programme provides you with the theoretical background, methodological tools and practical skills to navigate this challenging field. You’ll work within a diverse community of educators and peers from different contexts and backgrounds, giving you a rich and unique learning experience. 

After you’ve graduated, you can pursue a career as a global health professional, drawing on your understanding of how local and global dynamics shape health outcomes. You can, for example, become a project leader, policymaker, researcher, consultant, health advocate or social entrepreneur. You can work for international institutions, local and national governmental agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), academic institutions or industry. This programme can also enrich your practice as a health(care) professional. 
 

This programme is for you if you want to: 

  • broaden your perspective, challenge your assumptions and rethink how we approach and engage with health problems in a globalised world;
  • learn to think more analytically and critically about how we develop solutions to these health challenges;
  • contribute to tackling health inequity and injustice in meaningful ways.

A broad and multidisciplinary approach to global health

We approach global health from a variety of perspectives, looking at the biological, social, historical, political, economic and environmental dimensions that contribute to existing and shifting health and disease patterns. In particular, we focus on how global and local dynamics interact and shape one another, and how they play out in different contexts. You explore the global health governance landscape, including the different actors involved, disentangling the various power dynamics and asymmetries at play. Through this critical examination of power, we also question the assumptions underlying particular health policies and actions. This allows us to reconceptualize existing approaches and envision better strategies to improve health.

Consortium for Global Health

Our programme is embedded within the Consortium for Global Health, which consists of multiple partner universities across the globe (https://gh-consortium.org/). Partners provide Global Health or Public Health master’s programmes, each from their own unique perspective. Through this consortium, you have access to an international community of Global Health experts and stakeholders working across the public sector, civil society and industry. 

Opportunities to work with partner institutions across the world

Successful global health initiatives require intensive cross-border cooperation. This programme provides unique opportunities to work directly with partner universities across the world, preparing you for a career in Global Health. This includes partners in Bangladesh, Canada, Colombia, India, Japan, Norway, Sudan, Thailand and the United States of America - with students of each university coming from an even wider range of contexts.  

You will work in diverse groups consisting of students from partner universities virtually (during the Foundations of Global Health I and II courses), and in person (during an annual two-week Learning Symposium), developing your collaborative and reflective skills. You also have the opportunity to follow a specialised elective track at one of our partner universities or here in Maastricht. If you follow an elective track in Maastricht,  you are joined by students from our partner institutions. 

Strengths of our faculty