Master's Degree in Global Health

Academic year 2025-26

The CAIB’s authorisation to introduce the master’s programme (Article 27.1 of RD 822/2021) is currently being processed.

In order to be awarded the Master's Degree in Global Health, students must pass 60 credits as follows:

36 credits from mandatory subjects

12 credits from elective subjects

12 credits from the Master's Thesis.

First year
Name Type Credits Period
12245 - Master's Thesis Master's Thesis 12,0 Yearlong
12225 - The Foundations of Scientific Research and Writing in Health Mandatory 3,0 1st semester
12226 - Applied Statistics for Global Health Mandatory 3,0 1st semester
12227 - Designing Global Health Research I: Quantitative Research Mandatory 3,0 1st semester
12228 - Designing Global Health Research II: Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research Mandatory 3,0 1st semester
12229 - Designing and Implementing Global Health Interventions Mandatory 3,0 1st semester
12230 - Evidence-based Global Health Mandatory 3,0 1st semester
12232 - Communicable Diseases and Planetary Health Mandatory 3,0 1st semester
12240 - Health Systems and Policies, Determining Factors and Inequalities in Health, and Sustainable Development Goals Mandatory 3,0 1st semester
12233 - Global Environmental Health Mandatory 3,0 2nd semester
12234 - Humanitarian Emergencies and Crises in Global Health Mandatory 3,0 2nd semester
12243 - Health Economics and Assessing Health Results Mandatory 6,0 2nd semester
12231 - Scientific Writing in English Elective 3,0 2nd semester
12235 - Gender and Global Health Elective 3,0 2nd semester
12236 - Global Mental Health Elective 3,0 2nd semester
12237 - Maternal and Child Health Elective 3,0 2nd semester
12238 - Global Health and Nutrition Elective 3,0 2nd semester
12239 - Ageing, Chronicity, Dependency and Health Services Elective 3,0 2nd semester
12241 - Health Assets, Lifestyles and Healthy Environments Elective 3,0 2nd semester
12242 - Global Health, Interculturality and Migration Flows Elective 3,0 2nd semester
12244 - International Development Cooperation Elective 3,0 2nd semester