Short Courses in International Health

Public Health Anthropology
January 12 - January 23, 2026

Financing Health Care: Concepts, Challenges and Practices
February 02 - February 13, 2026
This 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

Applying the Rights Based Approach in Achieving Health Related SDGs
February 16 - February 20, 2026

Facing the NCD Epidemic in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
March 09 - March 13, 2026
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

Disease Control: Strategies and Policies
March 16 - March 27, 2026
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

NEW: One Health, One World: Unified Responses to Global Health Challenges
April 13 - April 24, 2026
This course aims to give an overview of the concept of One Health and its relation to International/Global Health. It introduces participants to different fields of interest such as infectious diseases and their surveillance, environmental health, food safety and AMR as one aspect of interlinkage between human and veterinary medicine.
- Contact Time: 90 hrs
- Fees: 1.750€, reduced rate tropEd 1250€
- Credit: 3 ECTS

NEW: Health Policy and Integrated Knowledge Translation
April 27 - May 01, 2026
The overall objective of this course is to explore with the participants how best to conduct both qualitative and quantitative research in collaboration with the knowledge users to ensure that research findings are not only accessible but also used to inform policy, practice, and system-level change.
- Contact Time: 60 hrs
- Fees: 1000€, reduced rate tropEd 750€
- Credit: 2 ECTS

Public Health in Emergencies
May 04 - May 15, 2026

Health Systems Strengthening
May 04 - May 08, 2026
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

NEW: Nutrition in Global Health
May 18 - May 22, 2026
This short course provides an introduction to public health nutrition, major global nutrition challenges, and key methods for assessing dietary and population health. It also covers life-course nutrition, malnutrition in all its forms, emergency nutrition response, food security, sustainable diets, and core nutrition policy frameworks.
- Contact Time: 60 hrs
- Fees: 1000€, reduced rate tropEd 750€
- Credit: 2 ECTS

Consultancy Skills in International Cooperation in Health: Evaluation of Health Facilities, Projects and Programmes
May 26 - June 05, 2026
Are you considering to expand your potential towards a career as a consultant/advisor in the Global Health arena? If so, this course - led by highly experienced consultants - will guide you to consider your potential, your options and your first steps to enter this new pathway. We particularly focus on both your personal strengths and on the essential practical skill of evaluation of projects, programs and facilities.
- Contact Time: 90 hrs
- Fees: 1,750€, reduced rate tropEd 1,250€
- Credit: 3 ECTS

Proposal Writing as a Consultancy Skill
June 08 - June 12, 2026
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

Improving the Quality of Healthcare Services
June 15 - June 26, 2026
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

Leadership and Change Management in International Health
June 29 - July 10, 2026

Leveraging Mixed Methods for Implementation Research in Global Health
July 13 - July 24, 2026
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: 100 hrs
- Fees: 1,750€, reduced rate tropEd 1,250€
- Credit: 4 ECTS