The aim of this 5-day module is to fulfill the following objectives:

• To provide knowledge of measures of health and burden of diseases in populations focusing on infectious diseases and nutrition;
• To improve understanding of how health care expenditures may contribute to economic growth;
• To read critically and assess journal articles on costs and benefits of health care expenditures;
• To introduce concepts of  assessment of alternative policies for improving the efficiency of resource allocation in the health sector;
• To understand the limitations of economic evaluation in the health sector; 
• To learn about critical barriers to coordinated action in global health, e.g. intellectual property rights; trade-offs between bilateral and multilateral aid for development;  incentives for research & development of drugs and medical commodities that meet the needs of the world’s population; and safety issues related to migration and epidemics;
• To describe the different actors operating in global health and understand their strengths and weaknesses;
• To provide a broad understanding of complex emergencies and describe responses in such contexts;
• To approach ethical issues related to global health, e.g. guidance to conduct research, human right aspect, gender disparity.
  Group work, including simple practical exercises and discussion of key publications from the literature will be organized.
  

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