For undergraduates, the department offers an undergraduate minor, and collaborates with the School of Public Health to support a Global Health Option within the Public Health-Global Health undergraduate major. For graduate and professional students, the department offers a Master of Public Health, a Doctor of Global Health Leadership & Practice (DrGH), and two PhD options: Global Health Metrics & Implementation Science and Pathobiology. Three graduate certificate offerings are available for graduate students, as well as a global health pathway for UW medical students. The department applies a strong cross-cutting focus on social justice and equity to its current and emerging focus areas, including: global environmental change; health economics; health metrics and evaluation; health system strengthening and implementation science; infectious diseases; injury and violence prevention; laboratory sciences; medicines safety; mental health; and women’s, adolescents’ and children’s health.
The Global Health Minor provides undergraduate students with an overview of the major problems and policy issues in global health. Students are able to understand and discuss the determinants of global health and global responses to health problems, and to engage actively in efforts to improve health as global citizens. Students graduating with a Global Health Minor demonstrate a basic understanding of the following for both developing country and other low-resource settings: the burden of the most important health problems contributing to excess morbidity and mortality; major historical, political, social, environmental, and economic determinants of adverse health; the pathophysiology of the most prevalent infectious and chronic diseases and medical and public health approaches for prevention and treatment; the current and historic health programs and policies designed to address major health problems; and how to critically analyze relevant topics in the literature and popular press.
The Global Health Minor provides undergraduate students with an overview of the major problems and policy issues in global health. Students are able to understand and discuss the determinants of global health and global responses to health problems, and to engage actively in efforts to improve health as global citizens. Students graduating with a Global Health Minor demonstrate a basic understanding of the following for both developing country and other low-resource settings: the burden of the most important health problems contributing to excess morbidity and mortality; major historical, political, social, environmental, and economic determinants of adverse health; the pathophysiology of the most prevalent infectious and chronic diseases and medical and public health approaches for prevention and treatment; current and historic health programs and policies designed to address major health problems; and how to critically analyze relevant topics in the literature and popular press.
30 credits:
The DrGH addresses a documented need for advanced degree programs that generate practice-based leadership skills for global health settings as opposed to more commonly available programs that focus largely on research skills. The DrGH degree program will improve the skills of global health leaders in planning, catalyzing resources; motivating teams; strengthening national policy; and, implementing, managing, and evaluating evidence-based programs in a variety of global health settings. DrGH graduates will gain the ability to understand and successfully navigate and work across diverse organizations and settings, including Ministries of Health (MOH), multilateral and bi-lateral agencies (e.g., the World Health Organization [WHO], the US Agency for International Development [USAID]), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), foundations, academic institutions, and private sector organizations.
See this program's Graduate Admissions page for requirements.
92 credits
The Department of Global Health, in collaboration with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and Health Alliance International, have developed a PhD program in Global Health that is the first of its kind, building on the expertise of our faculty in the areas of metrics and implementation science. The PhD program provides students with the latest and most innovative tools to advance global health solutions that are critical for decision-making and priority setting.
See this program's Graduate Admissions page for requirements.
98 credits
As a discipline, Pathobiology ties together the fundamental concepts of biology, medicine, and public health, particularly as applied to global health issues. The program applies a multidisciplinary approach as well as the latest research technologies to the study of public health problems such as viral, bacterial and parasitic diseases, as well as other conditions such as cancer. By investigating the mechanisms underlying multifactorial diseases, our program emphasizes the preventive as well as the curative, and a broader view of disease etiology. The program applies the research tools of immunology, molecular biology, pathology, and genetics to the detection and characterization of cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, and respiratory and parasitic infections.
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90 credits
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The Pathobiology Graduate Program is not currently accepting students directly into the MS program. However, the MS program remains an option under specific circumstances, such as failure to pass the General Examination or changes to academic goals.
Admission to this program is not available. Program is only available to students enrolled in the Doctor of Philosophy (Pathobiology) program.
60 credits