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Image: A student presents in SWAP (Science Writing Advancing Planetary Health). Photo by CIGH Team

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Courses supported by our center

We design and offer classroom-based courses in global health for Stanford undergraduates and graduate students. Explore the links on this page to learn about these global health course offerings.

Four small children walk down a dirt road in a refugee camp with their arm around one another

Participants discuss and engage critically with current topics and pressing issues in global health through the lens of health equity and social justice.

A screen shows a map of a globe while a speaker presents dynamically to a room of students

This two-day course is for fellows, residents and medical students in Stanford’s School of Medicine interested in developing research skills applicable to global health.

After an Ethiopian man built a well and water pump for his farm, he invited the 200 households in his town to access the water at no cost. Everyday women come to collect clean drinking water.



Photo: Morgana Wingard, USAID, Flickr

This two-week mini-course provides multidisciplinary trainees insight into over-arching themes of global health.

Steve Luby discusses research methodology using slides

See a curated list of global health research collaboration and funding opportunities available to undergrads.

Aya, a student, presents a project at a slide in front of a full room

This competitively selected, year-long directed reading program pairs students interested in science writing with faculty wishing to disseminate their work.