Short Courses in International Health
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Improving the Quality of Healthcare Services
January 13 - January 24, 2025
This course focuses on practical tools and methods to improve healthcare services in low- and middle-inco-me countries. It introduces participants to major steps and trends in healthcare quality and patient safety movements with a focus on challenges to improving quality in resource-limited settings.
- Contact Time: 90 hrs
- Fees: 1,750€, reduced rate tropEd 1,250€
- Credit: 3 ECTS
Public Health Anthropology
January 27 - February 07, 2025
After an introduction to Public Health Anthropology, participants are provided with knowledge in research methods and in practice apllication recommendations.
- Contact Time: 90 hrs
- Fees: 1,750€, reduced rate tropEd 1,250€
- Credit: 3 ECTS⠀⠀⠀
Disease Control: Strategies and Policies
February 10 - February 21, 2025
This short course provides in-depth knowledge on principles and strategies of disease control and equips students with the necessary skills to successfully establish, strengthen and systematically review disease control programmes.
- Contact Time: 90 hrs
- Fees: 1,750€, reduced rate tropEd 1,250€
- Credit: 3 ECTS
Facing the NCD Epidemic in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
March 03 - March 07, 2025
More and more LMICs are facing major changes in their disease pattern. The improving control of infectious diseases results in a higher life expectancy which together with rapid lifestyle changes leads to an increase of chronic conditions and diseases. This transition bears extreme challenges for health policy and the health systems.
- Contact Time: 60 hrs
- Fees: 1000€, reduced rate tropEd 750€
- Credit: 2 ECTS
Leadership and Change Management in International Health
March 10 - March 21, 2025
The overall objective of this module is to explore advanced topics in leadership as it pertains to change management in dynamic health care environments found in low and middle income countries.
- Contact Time: 90 hrs
- Fees: 1,750€, reduced rate tropEd 1,250€
- Credit: 3 ECTS
Consultancy Skills in International Cooperation in Health: Evaluation of Health Facilities, Projects and Programmes
March 24 - April 04, 2025
Join a multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary, expert-led group of health professionals and managers in learning or strengthening your skills in International Health consulting.
The course provides practical knowledge and experience.
- Contact Time: 90 hrs
- Fees: 1,750€, reduced rate tropEd 1,250€
- Credit: 3 ECTS
Global Challenges in Reproductive Health: Evidence and Tools for Programme Implementation
March 31 - April 11, 2025
The short course introduces participants to the human rights approach to reproductive health as well as strategies, frameworks, and tools for improving and managing reproductive health in health systems with a special focus on appropriate indicators, planning processes, and service provision.
- Contact Time: 90 hrs
- Fees: 1,750€, reduced rate tropEd 1,250€
- Credit: 3 ECTS
Proposal Writing as a Consultancy Skill
April 07 - April 11, 2025
The overall objective of this course is to enable health professionals and managers and students to understand and apply the concepts and principles of proposal writing within international health and to improve their personal and technical skills for in proposal writing.
- Contact Time: 60 hrs
- Fees: 1000€, reduced rate tropEd 750€
- Credit: 2 ECTS
Financing Health Care: Concepts, Challenges and Practices
April 28 - May 05, 2025
his course provides an over-view on the history of health care financing and the basic features of health care financing mechanisms in high-, middle-, and low-income countries. Among others it addresses the universal health coverage in regards to the Migration/Refugee Crisis.
- Contact Time: 90 hrs
- Fees: 1,750€, reduced rate tropEd 1,250€
- Credit: 3 ECTS
Health Systems Strengthening
May 05 - May 09, 2025
This course aims to provide students with the necessary tools to develop and to successfully implement Health systems strengthening (HSS) interventions in low/middle-income countries (LMICs), in order to maximize impact of national disease-control programs.
- Contact Time: 60 hrs
- Fees: 1000€, reduced rate tropEd 750€
- Credit: 2 ECTS
Public Health in Emergencies
May 12 - May 23, 2025
The content of the course reflects up-to-date knowledge and experience with the impact assessment and management of natural disasters and complex emergencies in the health sector.
- Contact Time: 90 hrs
- Fees: 1,750€, reduced rate tropEd 1,250€
- Credit: 3 ECTS
Applying the Rights Based Approach in Achieving Health Related SDGs
May 12 - May 16, 2025
This course covers the theoretical framework and general concepts and principles of human rights, their relationship to and impact within the health sector.
- Contact Time: 60 hrs
- Fees: 1000€, reduced rate tropEd 750€
- Credit: 2 ECTS
Mixed Methods in International Health Research
May 26 - June 06, 2025
Research in international health is becoming increasingly complex, requiring scientists to move away from the traditional quantitative vs. qualitative methodological dichotomy.
Mixed methods research represents an opportunity to build on the specific strengths of quantitative and qualitative research methods to foster synergies between the two which may allow for a more comprehensive understanding of the problems at stake.
- Contact Time: 90 hrs
- Fees: 1,750€, reduced rate tropEd 1,250€
- Credit: 3 ECTS
Quality Management in International Health
July 14 - July 25, 2025
This course introduces participants to the global context for quality improvement including quality management frameworks, quality improvement principles and health care quality and safety evaluation mechanisms and tools.
- Contact Time: 90 hrs
- Fees: 1,750€, reduced rate tropEd 1,250€
- Credit: 4 ECTS