Global Health, Master's

• All concentration courses will be offered at least once each year to enable you to complete the program within 2.5 years. 
• Although most students complete the program 2.5 years, you will be allowed up to five years to complete the program.

Global Health is a 31-credit Master of Science program that will train students for careers as future leaders prepared to address real-world issues affecting the human condition. As a student in this program, you will acquire expertise in global health. Your classmates will most likely be practicing professionals with a background in health care policies, systems, practices or clinicians and health administrators interested in increasing their knowledge and skills in the global arena.

Upon completion, you will be able to do the following:

• Understand the global burden of disease and validate the health status of populations using available data.
• Examine and critically evaluate different national models or health systems for provision of healthcare and their respective effects on health and healthcare expenditure.
• Identify major social and economic determinants of health and their impacts on the access to and quality of health services and on differences in morbidity and mortality between and within countries.
• Exhibit interprofessional values and communication skills that demonstrate respect for, and awareness of, the unique cultures, values, roles/responsibilities and expertise represented by other professionals and groups that work in global health.
• Apply project management techniques throughout program planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Graduates will leave the program prepared to address systemic problems impacting local and global communities.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates a shortage of approximately 9 million global health workers and that this shortage will grow to 12.9 million workers by 2035. WHO and other international reports specifically cite the need for clinical practitioners who are familiar with global and country health systems and their challenges and who have managerial skills. Your classmates will most likely be practicing professionals with a background in health care policies, systems, practices or clinicians and health administrators interested in increasing their knowledge and skills in the global arena.

The knowledge and training you'll receive in the Global Health program will prepare you to capitalize on this growth in a number of rapidly expanding fields, including:

• In-country field consultants
• Disaster relief organizations
• Immigrant/refugee health organizations
• Research and academic institutions
• International agencies
• Other non-governmental agencies (NGOs)
• Lending agencies that do work in developing countries
• Multi-lateral agencies (such as WHO)

Required Courses

• MHS 600: Introduction to Library Resources and Scholarly Writing (1 Credit)  
• MHS 605: Perspectives on Global Health (3 Credits) 
• CIPP 960: Critical Issues in Global Women’s and Children’s Health (3 Credits) 
• GH 652: Global Health Management and Leadership (3 Credits) 
• ETHC 638: Issues in International Research Ethics (3 Credits) 
• MHS 608: Research Seminar (3 Credits)  
• GH 700: Capstone Project (3 Credits)

Elective Options by Concentration

Implementation and Dissemination Science 

• MHS 630: Essentials of Chronic and Infectious Disease Epidemiology (3 Credits) 
• MHS 613: Research Implementation & Dissemination I (3 Credits)   
• MHS 614: Research Implementation and Dissemination II (3 Credits) 
• MHS 631: Global Non-Communicable (NCD) Epidemiology (3 Credits) 

Global Health Monitoring and Evaluation 

• GH 607: Global Health Program Monitoring & Evaluation I (3 Credits) 
• MHS 610: National/International Approaches to Healthcare Delivery (3 Credits)  
• GH 612: Global Health Program Monitoring & Evaluation II (3 Credits)
• GH 620: Global Disease Control (3 Credits)    

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