Entry requirements

University degree, minimum of 180 credits in medicine, nursing, nutrition or another area relevant to international health. All applicants need to verify English language proficiency. This is normally attested by means of an internationally recognised test such as TOEFL or IELTS.

Learning outcomes

At the completion of the course students should be able to:

• Describe and interpret the most common public health problems in the world.
• Identify and analyse the most common health problems in disasters, their determinants with special
• reference to vulnerable groups e.g. unaccompanied children and women.
• Understand and contrast different actors’ (UN, INGOs and RC ) mandate for the delivery of response to disasters.
• Describe and discuss international standards and guidelines for delivery of international humanitarian aid.

Content

• The global burden of diseases and their causes
• Public health consequences of disasters
• International standards and guidelines for humanitarian action activities, e.g. the Sphere standards
• Nutrition interventions in humanitarian settings.
• Reproductive health and preventing sexual violence in humanitarian crisis
• Services for children in especially difficult circumstances, including monitoring and surveillance
• Individual in-depth study

Instruction

Students’ learning is facilitated by lectures, literature studies, seminars, as well as individual and group assignments and individual paper writing.

Assessment

Assessment of the students’ achievements are obtained through a test and a paper with a critical analysis of three different kind of disaster situations.

Other regulations

Proirity will be given to medical and non medical persons working or planning to work for humanitarian action organisations.