StudyQA — Master: Global Health — University of Notre Dame

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The Master of Science in Global Health program provides an engaging science-centric training in the context of global health. Our program is a one-year, intensive training that includes two semesters of coursework and one (summer) semester of a field practicum, which we call the Capstone Project.

The coursework focuses on providing students with a working knowledge of the global health challenges facing our world by immersing them in the literature, as well as providing opportunities to meet and learn from experts in the field. The curriculum offers opportunities to operationalize the newly acquired skills and knowledge through activities such as laboratory research, survey research, mathematical modeling, mHealth platforms, and project management. Thus, our program allows students to make connections between classroom training in global health topics and the real health needs of resource-poor populations around the world through hands-on experience. Students undertake meaningful research projects supported by Notre Dame faculty and international partners in countries such as Belize, Ecuador, Peru, Haiti, Uganda, Moldova, Tanzania, India, and Thailand. Science is understood in the context of its promise to improve the health of those people who are disproportionately affected by preventable diseases.

The MS in Global Health program is supported by staff and facultywho have expertise and research in a variety of fields that represent the interdisciplinary nature of global health. Further, our faculty have research partnerships throughout the world that provide international field work opportunities for our students’ Capstone Projects. The Capstone Project is something we like to call ‘the secret sauce’ of our program.

Required Courses

FALL SEMESTER (required credits = 11)

Global Health Challenges
Topics in Disease Epidemiology
Quantitative Research Methods in Global Health
Qualitative Research Methods in Global Health
Global Health Project Management
Capstone Seminar

SPRING SEMESTER (required credits = 8)

Quantitative Research Methods in Global Health II
Global Health Ethics
Global Health Colloquium
Capstone Research
Leadership: Theory, Discovery and Application

SUMMER SEMESTER (required credits = 5)

Capstone Field Research

Elective Courses

This list contains recommended electives (for both spring and fall) but is not exhaustive. Students may search across the university for other appropriate electives they want to take (this requires approval from the program). Please visit Class Search on InsideND for the most updated information.

FALL SEMESTER

* Course requires approval from the professor. Please email the professor to get approval.

Medical Microbiology *
International Development in Practice: What Works in Development *
Improving Maternal and Child Health Services: Maternal and Infant Matrix Storyboard Methodology
Water, Disease and Global Health
Topics in Parasitology & Vector Biology *
Medical Molecular Parasitology
A.I.D.S.
Topics in Pathobiology *
Health Economics *
Stat Methods in Data Mining *
Topics in Global Health
Anthropology of Poverty

SPRING SEMESTER

GH 60201 - Section 01: Geographic Information Systems (CRN 29916)
GH 60408 - Section 01: Anthropods and Human Disease (CRN 26299)
GH 60550 - Section 01: Tpcs in Global Health: mHealth (CRN 29918)
GH 60612 - Section 01: Advanced Qualitative Methods (CRN 26652)
GH 63300 - Section 01: Home and Dome (CRN 29919)
CHEM 60520 - Section 02: Principles of Biochemistry (CRN 24264)
BIOS 60202 - Section 01: Global Bioethics Seminar (CRN 29394)
BIOS 60530 - Section 01: Immunobiol of Infect Diseases (CRN 26175)
BIOS 60579 - Section 01: Topics in Parasitology & VB (CRN 20022)
BIOS 60568 - Section 01: Topics in Infectious Disease (CRN 30392)
BIOS 60569 - Section 01: Topics in Global Health (CRN 23853)
BIOS 60206 - Section 01: Case Studies in Global Health (CRN 30423)

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
Upper-level science courses (at least two)
Statistics (not required but highly recommended)
3.0 GPA or above
Submit a curriculum vitae or résumé through the online application.
Submit a statement of intent (instructions below).
Submit three letters of recommendation (instructions below).
Submit the application fee by credit card, check, or money order using the payment system associated with the online application.
Submit an unofficial transcript (ultimately, an official transcript will be required).
Arrange for the submission of official Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test (or MCAT) scores. The scores reported must result from a test taken within the last five years. To expedite the review process, you may also upload preliminary (unofficial) scores, if available.