This summer course focuses on urgent topics related to 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 interactive one-week summer course will bring together leading thinkers and doers about global health ethics, justice and equity. Like in previous years, the enthusiastic team of experts and participants from all over the world will discuss various urgent topics, for example:
.. and many more!
The course program booklet will be available from January 2025.
"It was really wonderful and I feel so inspired by the participants, teachers, dynamics etc! Even though I came out with more questions, I also feel more motivated to do what I can within my sphere of influence!"
Lecturers of the 2025 Global Health Ethics & Equity summer school will be confirmed in December 2025.
Lecturers of the 2024 edition were:
This course is open to all with an interest in global health, health justice and health equity:
Guest lecturers will provide interactive sessions, alternated by small group work, to address the following learning objectives:
Full-time, one week in Utrecht (the Netherlands).
This course has the following fee options, based on your individual circumstances and application date:
| Registration date | Early bird | Late bird |
| LMIC-based* | €445,- | €545,- |
| HIC-based** | €695,- | €845,- |
The fees include course materials, coffee, tea, fruit, many Dutch cookies and a daily (vegetarian) lunch. The early bird registration fees apply until 1 March 2024.
*LMIC are low- and middle-income countries, as classified by the World Bank. Participants can apply for the LMIC fee based on the location of the institution which they are affiliated to. Please note: scholarship holders (including Erasmus+ KA171 participants) pay full fee.
**HIC are high-income countries, as classified by the World Bank.
For participants working in the private sector, late bird HIC-fee applies
If you combine this summer school with other Global Health courses, there is an additional discount of € 30 per course. Please mention this in your application, so we can apply the discount.
The housing costs do not include a Utrecht Summer School sleeping bag. This is a separate product on the invoice. If you wish to bring your own bedding, please deselect or remove the sleeping bag from your order.
For this course you are required to upload the following documents when applying:
