Global Health Section

The research and expertise of the Department of Public Health's Global Health Section includes everything from global health issues to problems arising from the most widespread and serious diseases, regional and local differences in health conditions and international health programmes and their effects.

Among the most important themes are health systems and society, health in poor societies, disaster management and prevention and environmental health.  Intervention studies, longitudinal studies, and international comparative studies are performed in collaboration with health care researchers, cultural researchers and social scientists.

Via the research themes below you can find an overview of research projects with participation from researchers at the Global Health Section.

• Building Stronger Universities
• Disaster Research
• Environmental Health and Vector-borne Diseases
• Mental Health
• Non Communicable and Infectious Diseases
• Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Completed projects at Global Health Section

To meet the increasing need for capacity building and strengthening of the resource base in global health both in Denmark and internationally, the Department of Public Health's Global Health Section offers several study programmes, short courses and summer schools.

• MSc in Global Health
• Master of Disaster Management
• Summer School in Humanitarian Action
• Summer School in International Health
• Summer School in Global Health Challenges
• Summer School in  Urbanisation and Health - Global and local perspectives with Copenhagen as a case
• Summer School in Arctic Health
• Field Course in Sri Lanka on Cross-disciplinary Health Research

Global Health Section
Department of Public Health
University of Copenhagen
Øster Farimagsgade 5, byg. 9
PO Box 2099
DK-1014 Copenhagen  

Phone: +45 35 32 76 26