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University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy (Faculty of Medicine) Master's Programme in Global Health
University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy (Faculty of Medicine)

Master's Programme in Global Health

Gothenburg, Sweden

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English

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Sep 2025

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    About: The Master's Programme in Global Health focuses on addressing health challenges affecting populations worldwide. Youโ€™ll explore the social, economic, and environmental factors influencing health outcomes while acquiring the skills needed to analyze and tackle these issues effectively. The program also emphasizes research methodology and promotes critical thinking in global health contexts.
    Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles in various sectors, including public health, international health organizations, non-profits, government agencies, and healthcare consulting. Potential positions include health policy analyst, global health consultant, and epidemiologist.

Introduction

Are you interested in health and improving public health? Do you want to make a difference and are driven by the idea of ensuring health equality? Then you should apply to the Masterโ€™s Programme in Public Health Science. Our students are trained to be able to work with public health, both nationally and internationally. We offer an international study environment where you will meet other students from around the world.

Why are there such large differences in health among different groups of people? What are the relevant factors that influence health and how can we improve the lives of people? These are some of the public health challenges we are facing. A wide-ranging and interdisciplinary perspective is needed to reduce difference between groups and achieve long-term and equitable improvements to public health. There is a need for trained public health scientists to study these issues and to formulate and evaluate public health efforts.

The Masterโ€™s Programme in Public Health Science teaches students the central theories and methods of the field. This two-year programme is taught in English. The goal of the programme is to give you the tools needed to be able to plan, conduct and evaluate public health work and to work to reduce systematic differences in health in the population.

You will also learn about epidemiology, social epidemiology, quantitative and qualitative research methods and health economics theories and methods. We offer both an introductory and advanced course in health economics.

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