International Community Health (master)

Learning outcomes

The International Community Health Master is a research based master program. By successfully and actively participating, you will acquire knowledge and skills to develop and expand your capacity to understand and critically assess issues related to international community health from global to local level. We focus both on providing familiarity with essential knowledge, research methods and on placing this into a broader context of how the communities we study are embedded in societies.

Programme learning outcomes from 2026

After completing the programme, students shall be familiar with the concepts of, and acquire knowledge and skills related to, global community health challenges and able to appraise how these relates to individual, societal, cultural, environmental and climate changes. Students shall also able to critically analyse various local and international policies, healthcare provision systems and strategies aiming at improving community health. Students’ competencies are acquired through emphasising on multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral approaches and bringing together the understanding of a wide range of players in improving community health. Students will also have acquired and demonstrated the skills necessary to plan and conduct a research project of relevance to international community health and global health. 

Knowledge

After completing the programme, you will be able to:

  • Explain essential global health concepts, and distribution of major global health challenges, including non-communicable diseases, nutrition deficiencies, infectious diseases and reproductive, maternal and child health challenges
  • Describe cultural, social, economic and environmental determinants of ill-health including the interrelationship of health and ecology 
  • Outline the elements and functions of health systems and principles of disease surveillance, health promotion, disease prevention and control.
  • Explain the process of data production, metrics and evidence and their role in informing global community health actions
  • Explain major actors committed to international and global health work, including government agencies, civil society organisations, multilateral institutions, philanthropic organisations and public-private partnerships
  • Describe the use of quantitative and qualitative research methods in generating evidence to address global community health challenges

Skills

After completing the programme, you will be able to: 

  • Apply the concepts of global community health in the evaluation of global distribution of illness and respective cultural, social, economic and environmenta