Liberal Arts and Sciences - Global Challenges with a major in Global Health, Innovation and Society Leiden University

Overview

The Global Public Health BSc major offered at Leiden University College is part of the Bachelor's programme Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges at Leiden University College in The Hague. Students choose a Major at the end of their first year and their focus is largely on their Major in the second and third year of their studies.

Key Facts

The interdisciplinary Global Health, Innovation and Society Major at Leiden University College The Hague covers biomedicine and policy within a critical global health lens. The main goal is to make a difference in the health communities by examining individual, sociocultural and environmental factors that impact well-being. It combines both a biomedical as well as social perspective on global health. We want to highlight the biomedical sciences track, which collaborates with the LUMC and adds a health sciences approach and the health data science track, which combines innovative approaches, such as AI and data science for health. This broad interdisciplinary major prepares you for a future career in global health practice and non-profit/NGO sector focused on health and development.

In this major, we explore questions such as....

• How will climate change aff ect the emergence of infectious diseases and living with chronic diseases?

• How do individual, structural, and social determinants influence population health?

• How can latest technological innovations such as artificial intelligence change medical practice and what are the ethical, legal and social aspects of these innovations?

• How can we connect academic and community-based knowledge around health and well-being?