New MSc in Global Health, Trinity College Dublin

Submitted by admin on Fri, 03/02/2006 - 17:59

A new Masters in Global Health degree programme has been launched in Trinity College, Dublin.

This new Masters is focused on health in 'developing countries' and should be of interest to people from a wide range of backgrounds that wish to understand the broader and interlocking contexts of many health problems. It builds on traditional approaches to international health by bringing together perspectives and insights from a range of social and health sciences.

This is a taught programme over one year and includes a research project. This Masters programme, building on and replacing our previous successful Masters in
International/Community Health. programme.

Core modules are:

  • Researching Global Health,
  • Determinants of Health,
  • Economics and Financing of Health,
  • Policy & Systems: Global &
    Country Level Perspectives,
  • Key Skills in Global Health.

Optional Modules will include:

  • Tropical Medicine,
  • Nutrition & Global Health,
  • Reproductive Health & HIV/AIDS,
  • Human Dynamics of Development
    Co-operation Culture,
  • Empowerment & Health.

Further information is available from the Centre for Global Health's website or contact global.health@tcd.ie.

Interested? Read more about Postgraduate global health on our Post graduate pages.