From: Global health education in Germany: an analysis of current capacity, needs and barriers
University | Degree program | Title | Format | Time | Modality (Compulsory/ Elective/Voluntary) | Institutes and/or Departments |
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Charité – University Medicine Berlin | Medicine | Global Health Basics - Medical activities in times of globalization Ia | Seminar | 16 x 90 min | Elective | Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics |
Medicine | Global Health Advanced - Medical activities in times of globalization IIa | Seminar | 4 x 90 min | Elective | Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics | |
Master of Public Health | Global Health Databasesb | Part of the Module “Advanced Public Health research methods”a | 70 h | Elective | Berlin School of Public Health | |
N/A | Global Health Student Group | Student Group | 2–4 sessions per month | Voluntary | Organized by students from different disciplines | |
N/A | Global Health Summer School | Summer School | 7 days | Voluntary | Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, IPPNWc | |
N/A | Global Health Conference | Conference | 1 day | Voluntary | Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, IPPNWc | |
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences | Master of Public Health | Global, European and German Public Health | Module | 180 h | Compulsory | Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Health Sciences |
Master of Health Sciences | Health Economics and Global Health | Module | 180 h | Elective | Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Health Sciences | |
Heidelberg University | Medicine | Global Health | Seminar | 2 weekends | Elective | Institute of Public Health |
Medicine | Society Georg Forster (Society for Global Health)a | Seminar | At least 4 sessions per term | Voluntary | Interdisciplinary | |
Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich | Medicine | Global Health | Seminar and exercises (e.g. microscope) | 10 x 90 min | Elective | Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine |
Master of Public Health; Master of Science Epidemiology; PhD International Health | Global Public Health | Module (2 courses: Global Public Health situationa, Public Health policies in a globalized worlda ) | 180 h | Elective | Institute of Medical Data Processing, Biometrics and Epidemiology, international guest lecturers | |
RWTH Aachen | Medicine | Globalisation and Health Initiative (GandHI) | Student group, project team of the German Medical Students’ Association’s Public Health Working Group (Summer School, Basics Seminars) | 3 seminars per term, 1 summer school per term | Voluntary | Organized by Medical Students |
Technical University Munich | Bachelor of Science Health Science | Global Health | Module (3 seminars) | 180 h | Elective | Chair of Sociology of Diversity, Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences |
University of Applied Sciences, Fulda | Master of Science Public Health; Master of Science Public Health Nutrition | Globalization and Healtha | Module | 300 h | Elective (M.Sc. Public Health), Compulsory (M.Sc. Public Health Nutrition) | Department of Nursing and Health Sciences |
University of Bonn | Medicine | Global Health | Seminar | 16 x 180 min | Elective | Institute of Medical History |
Medicine | Global Health: From Colonial Medicine to Primary Health Care and the Millennium Development Goals (part of a lecture on Public Health) | Lecture | 60 min | Compulsory | Institute of Medical History | |
University of Bremen | Master of Public Health – Health Promotion and Prevention; Master of Science Community and Health Nursing | Global Healthb | Part of the Module “Public Health – Advanced 2”a (lectures) | 14 x 90 min | Elective | Department of Human and Health Sciences |
Master of Public Health – Health Care, Economics and Management; Master of Science Epidemiology | Ethics in Global Health Politicsb | Part of the Module “Public Health – Advanced 2”a (lectures) | 14 x 90 min | Elective | Department of Human and Health Sciences | |
Bachelor of Public Health/Health Sciences | “ I want to work in development aid” – on Global Health and development cooperationa | Part of the module “Target group – specific Prevention and Health Promotion”a (Seminars, lectures) | 14 x 90 min | Elective | Department of Human and Health Sciences | |
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | Medicine | Global Health Ethics. Theory and Practice of International Health Carea | Seminar (+ research colloquium) | Twice every term (10,5 h) | Compulsory (Colloquium Voluntary) | Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Ethics |
University of Freiburg | Medicine | Global Health | Seminar | 30 h | Elective | Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Institute for Environmental Medicine and Hospital Hygiene |
Master of Science in Global Urban Health (planned for Oct 2016) | Master of Science in Global Urban Health | Master of Science | 1 year | Voluntary | Interdisciplinaryd | |
University of Giessen | Medicine | Global Health-focused curriculuma | Focused curriculum (combination of clinical electives, at least 4 advanced seminars, compulsory study time abroad, theme nights, lecture events, conference visits) | 4–6 clinical terms | Voluntary, can partly be recognized as elective course | Institute of the History of Medicine; Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine; Chair for Nutrition in Developing Countries of Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Nutritional Sciences and Environmental Management |
University of Göttingen | Master of Arts programs (economics and business oriented) | Global Health | Lectures (+ exercises) | 12 lectures (42 h) | Elective | Development Economics |
Ph.D. Programs (economics) | Advanced Global Health | Seminar | 8 x 4 h | Elective | Development Economics | |
University of Greifswald | Medicine | Global Health and Tropical Medicinea | Seminar (including opportunity for an international elective) | 10 seminars (39 h) | Elective | Institute for Community Medicine – Section Family Medicine |
University of Hamburg | Medicine | International Medicine/Global Health as part of the Second Track “Intercultural competence and International Medicine – intermed”a | Second track (series of complementary electives aimed at fostering students’ insight into the scientific aspects of medicine based on their personal preferences) | 5th–10th term, 2 weeks per term | Elective | Institute of General Practice/Primary Care, Department of Medical Sociology |
University of Marburg | Medicine | Global Health | Seminar | 42 h | Elective | Department of Primary Care, Preventive and Rehabilitation Medicine |
University of Münster | Medicine | Global Child Health | Seminar | 14 x 90 min | Elective | Department for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology |
University of Würzburg | Medicine | Global Healtha | Seminar | 6 x 3 h | Elective | Department of Tropical Medicine of Medical Mission Hospital in Würzburg, Medical Mission Institute |
Medicine | Tropical Medicine and Global Healtha | Final year elective (combination of clinical work, social commitment and project work) | 3,5 months | Elective | Department of Tropical Medicine of Medical Mission Hospital in Würzburg, Medical Mission Institute | |
N/A | Summer academy – Global Health and Tropical Medicinea | Summer academy (lectures, group work, simulation games, exercises) | 12 x 8 h | Voluntary | Medical Mission Institute Würzburg |