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Global Health (POPH90250)

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Global Health is an area for study, research and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide. It emphasises transnational health issues, determinants and solutions, involves many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration, and is a synthesis of population-level clinical care

This subject is a core subject of the Graduate Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H). A range of presentations and interactive activities will cover:

  • determinants of tropical disease such as gender, equity and nutrition,
  • conceptual framework for disease prevention (primary, secondary and tertiary),
  • “one health”,
  • impacts of global warming,
  • health and complex humanitarian emergencies,
  • structure and roles of international organisation, non-governmental organisations and international development health,
  • primary health care and Alma Ata,
  • health systems policy and health financing, and
  • issues of noncommunicable disease.

This subject will be taught on campus in block mode over five days.

Intended learning outcomes

At the completion of this subject, students should be able to:



  • consider and apply interdisciplinary approaches to global health.
  • respond to socio-economic and structural determinants of global health.
  • incorporate disease prevention into programmatic and policy health responses.
  • take into account situations and conditions specific to global health.
  • demonstrate understanding of the workings and impact of major stakeholders and systems on global health.

Generic skills

Upon completion of this subject, students should have developed skills in:

  • Critical thinking and analysis
  • Working with others and in teams
  • Initiative, autonomy and organisation
  • Problem-solving
  • Oral communication
  • Finding, evaluating and using relevant information
  • Written communication
  • Decision-making
  • Persuasion and argumentation
  • Using computers and relevant software

Last updated: 3 November 2022