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Global Health PhD & Postdoc Workshop Series

This Global Health workshop series will offer participants the opportunity to join various online workshops to improve their academic writing, communication skills and other academic "soft skills" relevant to the field of global health and beyond. In addition, this will be a great opportunity to meet and connect with other PhD candidates and early career researchers. 

Global Health Ethics & Equity

This summer course focuses on urgent topics in global health ethics and equity. With an enthusiastic team of experts from all over the world, the current major challenges to health equity in the world as well as potential solutions are discussed. This programme is a collaboration between the University Medical Center Utrecht and the Royal Tropical Institute. 

Global Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

This summer course provides a comprehensive overview of maternal, newborn and child health globally. With an enthusiastic team of experts from all over the world, we will discuss the major challenges which women and children in the world are facing, and we will look at potential solutions. This programme is a collaboration between the University Medical Center Utrecht  (Julius Global HealthWilhemina Children's Hospital), Amsterdam Centre for Global Child Health (ACGCH) and the Dutch Working Party on International Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health.

Challenges in Global Health: Non-Communicable Diseases

This one-week course aims to enhance the participant's knowledge and understanding of major health challenges with a focus on chronic non-communicable diseases globally. The topics discussed range from burden of and risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases, epidemiologic transition and globalisation, to the effects of early life environment, environmental changes on health, the intersection of communicable and non-communicable diseases and effective approaches for disease prevention and management.