Education

What can you find on this webpage?

Our (future) students can find the official study programme and other useful info here.

You can find information about admission requirements, further studies and more practical info such as ECTS sheets, or a weekly timetable of the current academic year.

Are you a future student?

Be sure to first take a look at the page about the Master of Global Health.

There you can find more info on:

- What’s the programme about?

- Starting profile

- Admission and application

- Future possibilities

- Why KU Leuven

- Contact

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Objectives

Global Health focuses on health issues and determinants that are considered global challenges of the 21st century such as chronic diseases, mental health, aging, but also the effects of pollution, climate change, migration, violence, etc. The complexity of these challenges requires an eminently transnational, multidisciplinary approach (including social sciences, environmental sciences, health sciences, law and economics).

Students who take this Masters will acquire the knowledge, attitudes and skills to deal with these complexities, in order to formulate holistic, transnational, multidisciplinary solutions taking into account a multitude of actors.

1. Advanced insights into the theory, analysis and decision-making on Global Health.
2. Critically and creatively using the international research and policy on Global Health in analysing complex challenges in the field of Global Health.
3. Apply analytical and methodological skills in a holistic manner in the study of diverse and transnational challenges of Global Health.
4. Design, plan and execute a Global Health research project independently in a national or international multidisciplinary setting.
5. Critically evaluate positions on complex transnational and interdependent Global Health challenges and substantiated an own viewpoint.
6. Independently and critically reflect on their personal role and that of others in a Global Health context.
7. Applying insights from different interrelated disciplines to Global Health Challenges.
8. Having a long-term vision, which aims to eliminate avoidable morbidity and mortality and promoting well-being, social equity and justice on a global scale.
9. Being able to take up a catalytic role in promoting a transnational and interdisciplinary approach to Global Health Challenges in countries at all stages of development.
10. Obtain the knowledge, attitude and skills to continue to evolve professionally through self-directed learning.
11. Being able to effectively and efficiently communicate and report orally and in writing on Global Health research and solutions with scientists from different disciplines and other stakeholders (including policymakers and interest groups).
12. Collaborate and give leadership in a multidisciplinary environment with a variety of actors from diverse cultural and social backgrounds.
13. Integrate societal implications of new developments in a complex context of Global Health in the scientific, policy and practical work.
14. Integrate ethical, normative and cultural aspects of Global Health into the scientific, policy and practical work.

Educational quality of the study programme

Here you can find an overview of the results of the COBRA internal quality assurance method.

Educational quality at study programme level

Blueprint

Educational quality at university level

• Consult the documents on educational quality available at university level.

More information?

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