This course is part of the Global Health Challenges and Governance Specialization

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Global Health Challenges and Governance SpecializationImperial College London

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Migration and health is the second instalment of the wider Global Health Challenges and Governance specialisation from Imperial College London's Global Master of Public Health (GMPH). The scope and content of this course has been developed from the ground up by a combined team of academics and practitioners drawing on a wealth of real-world public health experience as well as deep academic knowledge. Through short video lectures, readings and a wide range of interactive activities, learners will be immersed in the intersection of migration and health.
Designed for those new to the discipline, over four modules (intended for one week of learning each), learners will become familiar with the relationship between migration and health. Learners will be introduced to key terms and global trends in migrations, the profound impact of crises in non-health sectors on health, and policy instruments addressing migration. By the end of this course, learners will be able to describe international treaties protecting migrants’ right to health and migrant sensitive health systems. Learners will also be able to critically evaluate whether and how their national health system is providing universal health coverage to migrants. 

The subsequent course in this specialisation requires the knowledge from this course, as learners will take a deep dive into climate change by applying their global health analytical skills and knowledge of multilateral policy instruments to this important global health challenge.

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Global Health Challenges and Governance Specialization

Beginner Level

Approx. 31 hours to complete

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Skills you will gain

global
Evaluation
Human Migration
health system
right to health

Flexible deadlines

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Course 2 of 3 in the

Global Health Challenges and Governance Specialization

Beginner Level

Approx. 31 hours to complete

English

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Instructors

Christina Atchison

Principal Clinical Academic Fellow / Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine

School of Public Health

734 Learners

5 Courses

Wendy Kwok

Teaching Fellow in Public Health

School of Public Health

734 Learners

5 Courses

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Imperial College London

Imperial College London is a world top ten university with an international reputation for excellence in science, engineering, medicine and business. located in the heart of London. Imperial is a multidisciplinary space for education, research, translation and commercialisation, harnessing science and innovation to tackle global challenges.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Welcome to Migration and Health

2 hours to complete

7 readings

Week2

Week 2

8 hours to complete

An Introduction to Migration

This module begins by exploring how policies, and global trends and crises in non-health sectors can have a profound impact on health. More and more, health is the unwitting victim of global trends and crises, beyond our direct control, and policies made in the international systems that tie countries, economies, commerce, and trade together. We introduce learners to key terms and global trends in migration, and examine global governance structures and key policy instruments addressing migration.

8 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 10 min), 10 readings, 1 quiz

2 videos

Migration and Health3mIntroduction to the Global Governance of Migration6m

10 readings

Key terms of migration20mGlobal trends in migration30mInternational migration and population dynamics45mFurther information on the global governance of migration30mMigrant stories45mThe purpose of the infographic assessment1hPlanning and designing an infographic10mSelecting a global health topic1hSearching for literature to answer your research question1hCritically evaluating your chosen sources1h

1 practice exercise

Migration Quiz15m

Week3

Week 3

5 hours to complete

The Health Impacts of Migration

5 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 15 min), 6 readings

Week4

Week 4

3 hours to complete

Migration and Health, Global Governance, and Policy Making

This module introduces learners to migrant health global governance structures. Having previously considered the different stages of migration, we now look at the health-related policy processes and perspectives in relation to migrants. Historically, measures around migrant health operated primarily to protect the public health of the native population from the ‘threat’ posed by immigrants and travelers. We examine how, over time, there has been growing recognition that international policy-level attention to the health and human rights of migrants is required, with several international treaties now including provisions to protect migrants’ rights to health.

3 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 12 min), 4 readings

About the Global Health Challenges and Governance Specialization

This specialisation serves to introduce and integrate the key concepts of global health, globalisation and governance to understanding major challenges and threats to global health. It aims to provide learners with opportunities to understand the complex international setting of global health, the role of important stakeholders and the need for good governance in global health. Learners will be introduced to some of the most important challenges to global health and their implications in global health practice. Learners will discuss the main drivers of global health challenges, including global change and globalisation, and consider issues of inequity surrounding the impact of these challenges.

Learners will explore how the capacity to influence health determinants, status and outcomes cannot be assured through national actions alone because of the intensification of cross-border and trans-border flows of vectors, people, goods, services and ideas. By the end of the specialisation, learners should be able to effectively advocate, to a wide range of audiences, for specific action/s on topical global health challenges and propose evidence-informed measures that could be introduced to mitigate the impacts on health. This specialisation will explore in depth two global health challenges; migration and climate change. The Climate change and health course was developed in collaboration with Imperial College's Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment.

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