Public Health Response in Disasters (20 Hp) 2qa236
Huddinge, Sweden
Course
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: This course examines disaster medicine and public health since COVID-19, showing how overwhelmed systems must balance curative care and preventive measures like vaccination. It gives tools to study how vulnerability and contextual factors shape direct and indirect effects. The course brings together disaster medicine and public health expertise at Karolinska Institutet, a one‑faculty university dedicated to medical and health sciences, ranked top 50 globally, top 10 in Europe. The course is 20 Hp.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as emergency preparedness coordinators, public health officers, or epidemiologists, in government, hospitals, or NGOs. Skills include emergency planning and outbreak response.
The Covid-19 pandemic has put disaster medicine and global public health in the spotlight. Health systems are globally being overwhelmed, curative care for critically ill needs to be balanced with preventive measures including vaccinations. This course offers students tools to understand how contextual factors such as vulnerability interacts with direct and indirect effects of the disasters. It brings together expertise within global public health and disaster medicine.
