Master's Degree in Global Health

Academic year 2025-26

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.

This is an interuniversity master's degree jointly coordinated. You may view the course guides of all subjects and the list of teaching staff at the following link:
https://www.uma.es/centers/subjects_center/facultad-de-ciencias-de-la-salud/5410/?set_language=en

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