This course proposes an overview of current global health challenges drawing on the insights of several academic disciplines including medicine, public health, law, economics, social sciences and humanities. This interdisciplinary approach will guide the student into seven critical topics in global health.
MM
Excellent overview of the impact of the environment, economy, and natural resources on global health issues as well as the importance of health in international policies.
AC
This was a really mind opening course to know how health transcends boundaries of medicine to have an inter-sectoral impact.
TM
Would be nice to have a modern update. During the videos, please allow more time on the slides. The constant change between slides and faces is very distracting.
NR
I have found the course very useful, however the content is outdated. For a better impact it would be great to include information regarding current situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
NB
Very enlightening , and amazing to see the competences and dedication of every professional involved in this course. Chapeau, et merci!
MH
A very complete and solid review of basic global health concepts. The data need to be updated as most of them are for 2013 and MDGs. Overall a well made course.
DR
a very comprehensive overview offering positions, insights and knowledge from distinguished lecturers drawing on experiences, science and policies.
LL
This is a very beneficial course that taught me many interesting skills. I am so grateful to all the lecturers and all those who prepared the materials. It is a very rich course!
EB
Very good, timely and interesting course. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot. Tough enough course though. Sometimes hard to understand the accents of the presenters.
IH
New information on global health, but it is more appreciated if you use non-confusing jargon/words placement, especially on tick the options part.
RA
This course is very challenging and prolific. It has really widen my knowledge in the Health sector and I hope to study an upgrade of it in future. Many thanks to all the course instructors.
LS
Esse curso é excelente para quem está em busca de aprender mais sobre a saúde global. Tem tópicos atualizados e os professores são excelentes!
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My only complaint are the multiple answer quiz questions. They don't test any knowledge but your ability to second guess yourself. When i thought i knew the material, it took multiple attempts to complete the quizzes due to those questions.
This course is very challenging and prolific. It has really widen my knowledge in the Health sector and I hope to study an upgrade of it in future. Many thanks to all the course instructors.
As a student in global health. it was so helpful to gain an overall knowledge for global health, from many aspects from lead healthcare professionals all over the world.
It's a great course, nevertheless it needs to be updated as it is based on the Pre 2015 agenda and issues at the time, and several worldwide changes have occurred ever since, including the current pandemic that could be approached in several modules.
One of the best courses in the global health area on Coursera. The Experts from various disciplines brought in to share their expertise, valuable experiences and insights made this truly interesting and engaging in distance learning setting. Good course module guides for every chapter and interesting readings. I hope the University of Geneva can consider offering an extension to this. Big thank you to all the professors and experts!
Really good course, gave me new insight in areas I didn't even know were relevant to Health, I would highly recommend to anyone that is trying to understand, like me, what't going on right now.
Some of the topics were quite challenging to grasp and the quizzes are hard, which is a good way to review material, but nonetheless extremely insightful.
Fun and Interesting Course! Learned a bunch of stuff I hadn't really known and put together in my mind prior to this course. Thanks to all of y'all who put this course together. Dr Quincy
A lot of work went into this course, which is reflected in the abundance of material and information presented. It was very interesting and educational. Thank you!
This course not only takes the time to explain the topics clearly and concisely they also take the time to explain the simple things like the roots of the words.
A very complete and solid review of basic global health concepts. The data need to be updated as most of them are for 2013 and MDGs. Overall a well made course.
Thank you very much to the University of Geneva and to all the teachers who have strengthened some of my foundations and taught me many new things. Hugs
This a a very comprehensive and hollistic course. I would strongly reccomend it, in particular to people involved in the global health area.
I would like to thank to all the teachers and professional who take part in this great course. Thank you very much! Kind regards from Spain
A very beneficial course for people seeking to gain knowledge in the field of Global Health or Healthcare in general
An exciting course with good overview on the field of Global Health. I enjoyed participating in the course!
I just loved this course. The topics were very accurately explained and every lecture was interesting.
The course was very interesting, and quite challenging to follow at times if you aren't familiar with human/public health. While the information is very applicable to today, it would have been great if there was information from the later half of the decade.
I would have liked to find references to the pandemia of Covid-19.
This course helped me a lot to learn about factors impacting health at an individual level as well as public health (the health of a community, nation, or at the global level). An intensively interdisciplinary approach to bring speakers from WHO, International union for conservation of Nature and different fields of medicine, public health covered interesting topics such as healthcare financing, latest and emerging healthcare technologies and gave excellent examples of many successful initiatives by WHO (Alcohol-based sanitizer to reduce healthcare-related infections). To my surprise, the whole course was so much easy to understand and comprehend that I am surprised by the amount of practical knowledge and utility I have received from this absolutely simple and engaging multi-discipline course based on global health.
Thank you very much for conducting this important course on Global health.This has been 8weeks of learning which was worth doing setting the foundation of Global health.
The module coverage was very good and could follow and get the concept of global health.My suggestion would be if we can have a follow up course on this and if possible to have collaborations especially in research now that participants are from different countries so that we can get the practical aspect of what we learned.
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Having a small project at the end of the course as a prerequisites to finish the course.
Looking forward to do Masters in Global health/ Global health research.
I appreciate the coordination of this course.
Dr Mwanaidi Amiri MD,MMED Paediatrics and child health.