Join a global health community in analyzing how power structures shape the response to disease with the Harvard VPAL Global Health Delivery online short course. In this course, you will analyze the spread of Ebola, HIV/AIDS and MDR-TB and the effect of mental health around the world. As you progress, you’ll consider how you can integrate learnings from these examples into your own practices. You’ll learn the interrelated biological and social factors that impact complex global health challenges and contextualize them by reviewing case studies. By the end of the course, you’ll have compiled a health intervention plan for real-world applications.

The Summer Course in Global Health offers participants in-depth insights into the increasing complexity of the burden of disease. In a globalizing world, health challenges transcend national boundaries and are becoming more complex. To face these challenges, including those posed by pandemics like COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS, we need a two-way flow of resources, expertise, and know-how between the Global North and Global South, involving stakeholders from different scientific disciplines.

The Program consists of 7 full days with educational activities, workshops and interactive lectures by experts on a variety of different Global Health topics:

Any infection within a healthcare facility poses significant risks to patients, carers and staff. Being trained in infection control and prevention can help stop disease outbreaks. This course covers infection control, standard precautions for healthcare providers, as well as the role of antibiotic stewardship in combatting antimicrobial resistance. Enrol now and be the infection control champion your facility needs.

The Practical Nurse Top-Up Program in Finland offers an accelerated pathway to becoming a certified practical nurse for students with prior education. Lasting just one year, this intensive program focuses on essential nursing skills and clinical experience. Graduates receive a Finnish vocational qualification in Social and Health Care upon successful completion, marking their readiness to enter the nursing profession.

In Proremote-PROximity Care in REMOTE Areas Recently, the importance of promoting local health and ensuring proximity of care for patients emerged as evident from different perspectives. The COVID-19 pandemic was an exceptional period that brought awareness to politicians, professionals, and people about the necessity of renewing lives in terms of sustainability, digital access to services, and social connectedness.

This two-week blended course offers an introduction and overview of digital health, including a strong emphasis on how in reality, digital health functions in various settings. Participants will discuss how digital health interventions can help push the triple aim of Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable Goal Development for more people at a lower cost in different settings in high-, low- and middle-income countries. The program discusses what kind of analysis should be done for developing digital health intervention, which stakeholders.

Learn more about hypertension and its effects on health.

Learn more about malaria and the effect it causes on our health.

This course provides knowledge and skills that healthcare managers, policymakers, and planners need for human resource planning and management. It discusses policies, strategies, and practices at a national and workplace level to address health workforce issues.

The Dorothy D. Rupe CNA/Home Health Aide Program prepares men and women to give basic nursing care under the direction of a licensed nurse. The focus of this program is on the care of the elderly, including both classroom and clinical experiences. This program meets the requirements for the California Certified Nursing Assistant. Upon successful completion of CNA 101, the student is qualified to take the California State Certification Exam.

This Course in Impact Evaluations for Health Systems Strengthening course will equip you with advanced skills to evaluate health programmes and policies in global public health, with the ultimate aim of building strong and resilient health systems. This course delves into approaches, methodologies and tools for conducting rigorous impact evaluations to promote evidence-informed decision making in public health.

This dynamic Foundations of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in Public Health two-week course equips you with essential skills and knowledge to navigate the landscape of evidence-informed decision-making in global public health. This course delves into the foundational principles of monitoring, evaluation, and learning within the frame of global public health.

The international course "Health and the Environment" aims to introduce students to the impact of environmental factors on public health. Our goal is to equip health professionals to minimize healthcare's negative effects on the environment and strengthen health systems to better handle environmental challenges.

The core course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Public Health and Epidemiology is a 3 months course that prepares health managers to use a public health approach to address the problems in your country, taking into account epidemiology, health system aspects, and broader social determinants of health. The course will prepare you to solve complex public health problems systematically.