Global health policy

Presentation

The seminar aims at providing students with an introduction to the key concepts, issues, policy areas and actors of global health.

Recommended Prerequisite(s)

Basic principles of project management & international cooperation and development.

Bibliography

• Farmer et al, Reimagining Global Health : An Introduction, University of California Press, 2013.
• https://www.who.int/about/what-we-do/thirteenth-general-programme-of-work-2019---2023  
• https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/universal-health-coverage-(uhc) 
• Jamison et al, Global health 2035 : a world converging within a generation, 2013. https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(13)62105-4.pdf 
• Micah et al, Financing Global Health 2018 : Countries and Programs in Transition, 2019.

Educational formula

The seminar is a mix of lectures, discussions and group exercises including a simulation exercise in which students are split in different stakeholder groups to design, present and critically assess global health projects.