Public health students travel to the Caribbean island of Dominica to study mosquitos and how they transmit disease.
Simone Asare, an MPH Candidate at the Yale School of Public Health spent her summer in Navrongo, Ghana as a Downs Fellow. The goal of her research was to explore the relationship between nutrition, malaria and anemia among children in northern Ghana. She collaborated on this project with the Navrongo Health Research Center and the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, interviewing 237 caregivers in the Kassena-Nankana District about the nutritional history of their children during the wet and dry seasons. Learning to ride a motorbike helped Simone immerse herself in the rich culture of northern Ghana and zip to towns such as Navrongo.
Megan McInnis, an MPH candidate at the Yale School of Public Health, explored how stigma and gender identity affect and/or are correlated with three major mental health problems (anxiety, depression and post traumatic stress disorder) within the homosexual and transgendered women’s community in Chennai, India in the summer of 2011. In this photo, women enjoy the evening breeze at Marina beach, one of the largest beaches in the world.
Professor Elizabeth Bradley and colleagues discuss health initiatives in Ethiopia.
Gabriel Forrey (front) and others prepare to cross a river as part of a summer internship in Assam. Photo credit: Gabriel Forrey
Sara Bodnar, a second-year MPH student, gets to know children in El Salvador before teaching health care lessons on nutrition and hand washing.

Global Health Concentration

The multidisciplinary approach of the Global Health Concentration encourages creativity and innovation, while fostering a global perspective. The concentration emphasizes an integrative problem–solving approach to global health issues and to diseases and conditions that afflict developing and developed countries. Students who complete this concentration will be well prepared for positions in a variety of organizations—public and private, national, bilateral and multilateral—dedicated to global health challenges.

M.P.H. students in our traditional two–year program may complete this concentration while they satisfy the requirements of their respective divisions or programs. Students in the one–year Advanced Professional M.P.H. Program may enroll in a Global Health Track.

Placement for internships and permanent positions after graduation include the World Health Organization (WHO), UN agencies (e.g., UNHCR, UNICEF), the World Bank, the Pan–American Health Organization (PAHO), Planned Parenthood, John Snow, Medecins Sans Frontiers, National Network on Tobacco Prevention and Poverty, National Opinion Research Center, Human Rights Watch, the Millennium Cities Initiative, Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, USAID, Save the Children, and other community–based and research/academic institutions in various countries.

Ethiopia as a Model for Health Care Leadership

11/21/2011: Despite extensive poverty and limited resources, Ethiopia has made impressive strides in improving its health care system and can serve as a model for other countries seeking to make similar gains, a new paper by Yale researchers suggests. >>>

Downs Fellows Present International Research Findings

11/04/2011: Back from challenging international research assignments in countries as diverse as Colombia and Malaysia, the 2011 Downs Fellows presented their findings at an annual symposium and poster session in Winslow Auditorium. >>>

Film Project Garners Global Health Award for Recent Graduate

11/04/2011: When it comes to completing a master’s thesis, few public health students turn to the medium of film. >>>

Mentoring Other Countries in Health Management

Interview with Elizabeth Bradley, Director of Global Health Leadership Initiative. right-click to download

Global Health Concentration

Ethiopia as a Model for Health Care Leadership

Downs Fellows Present International Research Findings

Film Project Garners Global Health Award for Recent Graduate

Mentoring Other Countries in Health Management

Global Health Events

Globally Committed to Health

Yale Global Health Initiative

Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI)

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