Despite tremendous advances in the past decades in medicine, education, and food production, public health remains a major global concern.?

The goal of the Global Public Health programme offered by the Leiden University?is for you to develop a theoretical and applied understanding of the causes and risk factors associated with public health problems, ranging from community to global scales.

Career prospects

This broad interdisciplinary major prepares you for a future career in global health practice, as well as further post-graduate studies in health sciences. For example students can work as:?

  • Health education officer?
  • Health Policy maker?
  • Prevention worker?
  • Health Counselor
  • Health Care Consultant