Global Health Summer Schools 2025
After a successful edition last year, the Global Health flagship - a collaboration between UGlobe and UMCU - is involved in several summer school courses again this year. As the flagship aims to work towards a healthier and more equitable world, we must join forces by sharing knowledge and experience. The summer school courses are a perfect way to achieve this. Join us to expand your horizons and contribute to the advancement of global healthcare!
The summer school courses range in topic, but center around connecting like-minded (healthcare) professionals, students, and enthusiasts to learn from each other and work towards a better future. On this page, we highlight the Global Health summer school courses but of course there are many other interesting courses.
Global Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
This course provides an overview of Maternal, Newborn and Child health care, globally. During the course you will dive into the challenges faced by women and children all over the world and look at potential solutions. This thought-provoking course will help you engage in meaningful discussion with an international group of experts and other participants.
Global Surgery & OBGYN
During the course ‘Global Surgery & OBGYN’ you will gain a broader understanding of surgical care and maternal health in a global context. The course takes an interactive approach and deals with a variety of topics, providing a unique opportunity to connect and learn from different backgrounds and perspectives.
Global Health Ethics & Equity
The central issue in this course are the current key challenges in global health ethics and equity. The goal of the course is to understand these challenges and grasp underlying concepts in order to take a well-argued position in debates on the topic and apply this knowledge to real-life examples.
Implementation Science in Global Health
This course sets out to define and work with implementation science, the goal of which is to close the 'know-do gap'. The 'know-do gap' is the phenomenon of delay between knowledge and action, which is especially prevalent in low-resourced settings. In this course you will learn more about implementation science and adopt an analytical approach through interactive sessions.
Challenges in Global Health: Non-Communicable Diseases
In this course one of the great challenges to global health is addressed: non-communicable diseases. Different aspects will be discussed, such as causes, consequences and potential policies for prevention to enhance participants' knowledge and understanding on this challenge to global health.
Planetary Health: Towards Just Futures
While we often focus on humans when thinking about global health, this course highlights the importance of looking at planetary well-being and its connection to human health as well. Especially in the face of escalating climate crises and environmental degradation, it is important to look at these connected systems and the inequalities that arise in them. This course aims to educate participants on these intricacies in global and planetary health.