MScIH Advanced Modules

Full-time and part-time students must complete a series of advanced modules as part of the MScIH programme totaling 20 ECTS.

Full-time students have to complete a set of four mandatory advanced modules before they can undertake any of the elective advanced modules to gain the total of 20 ECTS points required.

Part-time students may chose any of the advanced modules offered to earn 20 ECTS points.

Full-time and part- time students may chose to complete elective advanced modules offered at Heidelberg University or at one of the other partner institutions within the tropEd network.

Mandatory Advanced Modules

• Disease Control: Strategies and Policies

• Public Health Anthropology: Concepts and Tools

• Improving the Quality of Healthcare Services in Resource Poor Settings

• Global Challenges in Reproductive Health: Evidence and Tools for Programme Implementantion

Elective Advanced Modules

• Consultancy Skills in International Health: Evaluation of Health Facilities, Programmes and Projects

• Proposal Writing as a Consultancy Skill

• Decision Making in Public Health: Evidence, Politics or Diplomacy?

• Financing Health Care - Concepts, Challenges and Practices

• Public Health and Disasters: Assessing and Responding to Health Care Needs in Natural Disasters and Complex Emergencies

• Neglected Tropical Diseases: A Public Health Issue

• Leadership and Change Management in International Health

• Health and Human Rights

• Quality Management in International Health

• Global Mental Health: Public Health Approaches

• Mixed Methods in International Health Research

• Health Systems Strengthening in Low- and Middle-Income Countries