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Global Health Ethics & Equity

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.  

€695

Specifications

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Master
1.5 ECTS
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Description

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: 

  • Ethical consideration in global health research
  • Social justice and human rights
  • Equitable partnerships between high-income country (or 'Global North') and Low- and middle-income countries (or 'Global South')
  • Challenges encountered on the pathway to more just and equitable health systems
  • The role of moral deliberation to navigate ethical dilemmas in global health  
  • Ethics in humanitarian crisis contexts
  • Fair access to medicines
  • Climate justice

.. 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!"

A participant from the 2023 edition

Lecturers

Lecturers of the 2025 Global Health Ethics & Equity summer school will be confirmed in December 2025.

Lecturers of the 2024 edition were: 

  • Dr. Rieke van der Graaf (UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands)
  • Dr. Joyce Browne (UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands)
  • Prof. Dr. Seye Abimbola (University of Sydney, Australia)
  • Dr Bridget Pratt (Australian Catholic University, Australia)
  • Dr. Sandra Alba (KIT Royal Tropical Institute, the Netherlands)
  • Dr. Sharon Kaur (University of Malaya, Malaysia)
  • Dr. Tarek Meguid (Namibia)
  • Ms. Koiwah Koi-Larbi Ofosuapea (Action on Preeclampsia Ghana, Ghana)
  • Dr. Wilbert Bannenberg (Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation)
  • Prof. Fatima Suleman (University of KwaZulu-Natal )
  • Dr. Amrish Baidjoe (Médecins Sans Frontières, LSHTM; Luxembourgh/UK)
  • Prof. Hans van Delden (UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands)
  • Dr. Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki (Monash University & Tehran University of Medical Sciences)
  • Ms. Julia Addison (UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands)

Target audience

This course is open to all with an interest in global health, health justice and health equity:

  • Professionals: medical doctors, bioethicists, (political) philosophers, sociologists, members of research ethics committees
  • (PhD) researchers, from any discipline but with an affinity with Global Health
  • Policy makers
  • Master’s level students from a wide range of eligible backgrounds, e.g. medicine, global health, public health, biomedical sciences, philosophy, bioethics, applied ethics, sociology

Aim of the course

Guest lecturers will provide interactive sessions, alternated by small group work, to address the following learning objectives: 

  • Understand the key concepts related to global health ethics, justice and equity
  • Discuss key challenges related to global health ethics, justice and equity and strategies to address these 
  • Apply concepts discussed within the course to real-life situations within research, practice and policy brought in by teachers and fellow participants
  • Argue for a position in health equity debates

Study load

Full-time, one week in Utrecht (the Netherlands).

Costs

  • Course fee: €695.00
  • Included: Course + course materials + lunch
  • Housing fee: €200
  • Housing provider: Utrecht Summer School

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.

Additional information

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. 

Application

For this course you are required to upload the following documents when applying:

  • Motivation Letter
  • C.V.

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