Our teaching

The staff of the Sustainable Health department is engaged in developing, evaluating and delivering innovative and critical teaching to a variety of programmes. We use a varied way of teaching methods, from unstructured teaching to problem/challenge based learning, peer-to-peer learning, with a special attention in favouring interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches.

Developments Sustainable Health programme

We are in the process of developing a MSc in Sustainable Health in which we hope to attract students from a variety of backgrounds to be interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary trained in public health with a strong focus on preventive medicine, social equity and planetary health. More information will become available in due time.

BSc Global Responsibility and Leadership

One of the tracks within the BSc Global Responsibility & Leadership is the Global Health track. This track is embedded under the Responsible Humanity major of the programme and aims to introduce students with the fundamental definitions, concepts and theories of global public health. Under this track, students learn about health, disease control, and epidemiology on the one hand, and social determinants of health, human rights, capability to be healthy and social medicine on the other. The global health track positions the construction of health concepts and definitions into a historical perspective whereby students learn about sociopolitical, cultural and historical factors that shape health, health systems and health governance.

The Sustainable Health departments contributes to the Psychology track, part of the Responsible Humanity major, as well. Here we teach content related to psychology, gender, culture and diversity. The Psychology of Culture and Diversity course in the Psychology track provides an understanding of cultural differences in psychological processes, some of which are related to physical and mental health e.g., how cultural features interact with socio-economic status to affect health outcomes; and how some of these outcomes appear to be due to experiences with discrimination, cultural shaping of psychological disorders, or the distribution of laypeople’s and doctor’s medical attitudes across cultures.

Other teaching

Within the ENLIGHT project, we are leading a new Blended Intensive Programme in Planetary Health in collaboration with the University of Ghent, University of Bordeaux, University of Galway, and University of Upsala.