Health and Development

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Course aims to prepare its students:

to understand and handle new challenges in the domain of (global) health to understand the developments in new biosciences and new public health combining bio-medical and social sciences.

AIM
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Students should:
understand and able to work with theories of globalization understand the debates about access to medicines and healthcare; whether health should be understood as a private good understand that populations are no longer restricted to geographical locations and the north -- south divides are getting mixed up.

OBJECTIVES
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Provides a multidisciplinary focus on global health leadership

Collaborating with FHML, TSS, ICIS, MGSoS combines biomedical sciences, health sciences, social sciences, management, economics and political sciences that imparts a broad basis for conceptualizing health, environment and development.

Prepares students for a career -- addressing the range of interrelated issues that constitute global health

How do students benefit

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So, the broad idea is that MPP graduates will

grasp the nature and implications of the interactions between populations, governments, and businesses worldwide and contribute to their fields of research and prospective employers Well-equipped for advanced academic study or for careers
in international health and development agencies (WHO, IMF, UNDP, UNICEF, WB) in private sector firms such as pharma industries, NGOs, CBOs (Red cross, Oxfam, MSF, Rockefeller, Gates foundations, etc.), with regional, local government agencies (ministries of health), etc.

Departing from the knowledge on various theories and empirical studies on health and development you would learn to develop and implement responsive intervention plans ( that can be adopted to local circumstances diverse stakeholders )

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Program structure:
a)Health policy

b)Global Health Management

c)Assessing needs and understanding behavior

d)Quantitative techniques in health care financing

Structure of the specialization

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Getting to know that new actors are entering the international arena, challenging the traditional distribution of economic/political power and reshaping or changing the existing public-private partnership (role of actors and governance; governance and accountability) Making; different approaches to policy power and politics involved in it; what gets implemented and why (who benefits); how policy benefits from research; policy and ethics

a) Policy

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b) Study

different managing styles, health information technology, health systems management, human resource management, global health diplomacy, global collaboration involved in making a needs assessment to practice measuring the determinants of environmental conditions and determinants of behavior and lifestyle. financing, rationing, financial sustainability of a system, financial projections that correspond to future reforms in the system

c) Process

d) Healthcare

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