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.