Health Promotion and Disease Control Strategies course brings together theory and practice, offering an in-depth exploration of health promotion and control strategies. Engage with KIT staff and distinguished guest lecturers and experts from diverse organisations, ensuring a holistic perspective on health systems approaches to health promotion and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases.

The HSP track combines cutting-edge interdisciplinary research with practical policy questions, aiming to solve complex public health problems related to societal issues like an ageing population, increasing levels of chronic diseases, widening health inequalities, migration and urbanization. You learn to tackle issues like these from various academic disciplines, as you are taught and supervised by experts in economics, spatial sciences, psychology, sociology, and medicine. The track is a small-scale selective programme that is embedded within the research master Clinical and Psychosocial Epidemiology (CPE) and is an initiative of the University Medical Center Groningen and the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health.

This 3-week course is mainly for clinicians, health system and program managers, decision-makers, and researchers who are, or have been, involved in outbreak investigations and want to be able to identify and appraise research needs and opportunities and to develop and support research as part of the outbreak response. The course aims to enhance the specific skills needed to design and implement multi- and interdisciplinary outbreak investigations with a particular focus on relevant research before, during, and after acute phases of outbreaks.

Join a global health community in analyzing how power structures shape the response to disease with the Harvard VPAL Global Health Delivery online short course. In this course, you will analyze the spread of Ebola, HIV/AIDS and MDR-TB and the effect of mental health around the world. As you progress, you’ll consider how you can integrate learnings from these examples into your own practices. You’ll learn the interrelated biological and social factors that impact complex global health challenges and contextualize them by reviewing case studies. By the end of the course, you’ll have compiled a health intervention plan for real-world applications.

This Master’s degree provides a methodological toolbox for disease control; it includes epidemiology, statistics, GIS, and meta-analysis, as well as practical, hands-on experience. Disease prevention plays a vital role in improving international health and welfare, including areas such as human rights, justice, and gender equality.

The doctoral study program "Preventive medicine and epidemiology" is using the principles of evidence-based medicine to assess the impact of various factors (physical, chemical, environmental, biological) on human health at the individual as well as the population level in order to identify possible approaches for prevention. The program integrates knowledge and approaches originating from the fields of toxicology, molecular biology, immunology including clinically-oriented disciplines. The program represents a theoretical basis for preventive disciplines in medicine, e.g. public health, epidemiology, and biostatistics.

Any infection within a healthcare facility poses significant risks to patients, carers and staff. Being trained in infection control and prevention can help stop disease outbreaks. This course covers infection control, standard precautions for healthcare providers, as well as the role of antibiotic stewardship in combatting antimicrobial resistance. Enrol now and be the infection control champion your facility needs.

The short course “Hospital-based Interventions to Contain Antibiotic Resistance in Low-resource Settings (AIM)” is a 3-week course that offers interdisciplinary and interactive training on relevant aspects of antibiotic resistance and its containment at the hospital level. The course focuses on hospitals because they concentrate on the illest and vulnerable patients; in addition, they are hotbeds of healthcare-acquired infections, act as referral sites for difficult-to-treat infections, and host trainees and postgraduate educational programs. The short-course consists of a common track and 3 specific tracks on Antibiotic Stewardship (ABS), Infection Prevention & Control (IPC), and Microbiological Surveillance (MS) in the hospital setting. These are closely linked key components in the successful containment of antibiotic resistance.

The Master of Science in Public Health (MPH) is an international program with a clear focus on health systems strengthening and improving disease prevention and control. The scope of the MPH concerns resource-constrained settings and vulnerable populations. The aim of the MPH is to enhance the student’s capacity to face current challenges such as the achievement of Universal Health Coverage, the organization of health care for infectious and non-communicable diseases, the control and elimination of (neglected) tropical diseases, the preparedness for disease outbreaks and the response to sexual and reproductive health needs of adolescents, and to health inequities in general.

This free online epidemiology course explains how infection control and prevention curb the spread of disease.

Learn about infections, their transmission methods, symptoms and preventive techniques in this free online course.

The Graduate Certificate of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control offers an introduction to core concepts and skills in infectious disease prevention and control. This includes epidemiology, statistical research methods and quantitative analysis of health data.

The GDEC Program trains students to use epidemiologic and biostatistical methods to design, implement, and evaluate disease control interventions of public health importance to underserved populations. Students have the opportunity to work with faculty at field sites across the world, gaining hands-on experience in global health research and program implementation.

Higher education, scientific research and technological, cultural and social innovation have become a major issue in the new knowledge-based economy and for the competitiveness of nations, and the nations which invest the most in this field are obviously acquiring best assets for successful development.

This is a Dual Master’s Degree Program. Students are awarded an MPH in Infectious Diseases from James Lind Institute, Switzerland; and an optional M.Sc Degree from International Telematic University UNINETTUNO, Italy.