SSPH+ | Summer School in Public Health

2022 Course Programme

18/8/2022

Social media in global health: potentialities, risks, and new developments

In this course you will learn the underlying principles that make social media powerful and dangerous at the same time, with a focus on their use in global health.

Christoph Pimmer

Neira Budiono

24/8/2022

Policy Options on Mental Health

In this course you will learn about challenges in public mental health, and to identify and use policy options for the implementation of mental health policies.

NCD control in a global health perspective: Public health and systems strengthening approaches

Which are the “best buy” interventions to prevent NCDs? In this course you will learn public health strategies to curb NCDs, and changes needed in the health care system, with a focus on middle-and low-income countries.

Kaspar Wyss

Pascal Bovet

24/8/2022

Community-based participatory methods in public health

In this course you will learn how to engage individuals, hospitals, health service providers, social organisations, and government officials to develop partnerships and co-create positive change.

Nadina Luca

Amalia Pesantes

24/8/2022

Strategic public health policy and planning in times of uncertainty: Using systems modelling for evidence-based decision making

How do we estimate the potential impact of evidence-based interventions in real-world settings? In this course you will learn methods of systems modelling and simulation to capture the complexity of quantifying uncertainty to better inform policy and planning decisions.

Public Health Leadership for Global Health and Wellbeing

This course aims to introduce and help develop transformational leadership competencies in public health practitioners, researchers, administrators, and policy influencers.

Katarzyna Czabanowska

Suzanne Babich

Barbara Maria Bürkin

24/8/2022

Wealth Inequality, Social Mobility and Health

This course aims to understand the complex dynamics that occur in countries with large disparities in wealth, the promising avenues in increasing social mobility and the deep connections between inequality and health.

Nathalie Jean-Baptiste

Maria Luisa Mendez

24/8/2022

Responding to disasters: the importance of Humanitarian Logistics

This course focuses on logistics and supply chain management in humanitarian context

Paulo Gonçalves

24/8/2022

Is Breathing killing us? Tackling Air Pollution using science for policies to protect health

Learn how and why air pollution impacts our health and how to use research and data to inform policy making to improve air quality and public health.

An introduction to health economics: how should we finance and organize our health care systems

How should we pay for health care? How much capacity do we need? Which is the inter-relationship between income and health? In this course you will learn how the tools of health economics can be used to understand the health and welfare implications of how our health care systems are funded and organized.

Andrew Street

27/8/2022

Strategic Project Management

Management projects well is fundamental to their success. In this course you will learn the principles of Project Cycle Management and the use of the Logic Framework Approach when writing a project proposal.

Axel Hoffmann

Bernadette Peterhans

Adela Beriša - Fazlagić

27/8/2022

Designing Health Care: Improving patient and staff safety through Evidence-based Design

The design and architecture of health facilities impact the health and wellbeing of patients and staff. From multidisciplinary perspective, learn how to create better communications and design of spaces, and how to scale these to local resources.

Promoting healthy behaviors through multi-level approaches

In this course you will learn why promoting lifestyle behaviours through evidence-based, multi-level approaches is as important as ever and what it takes to design for success.

Yana Manyuk

Mirjam Rodella Sapia

27/8/2022

Moving forward in public health planning by learning (or not) from the past

This course will use a variety of historical and current examples to discuss where past experience has been incorporated into future planning, where it has not, focusing on important lessons lost or used to benefit public health planning and actions.

Kaspar Staub

Joël Floris

27/8/2022

How well is the health sector performing? Measuring expenditures and efficiencies to meet strategic objectives and inform policy and health system reforms

This course focuses on the challenges and opportunities of tracking expenditures and assessing efficiencies to meet strategic objectives and inform policy and health system reforms.

Laura Di Giorgio

Thomas Maina

John (“Jack”) Langenbrunner

Stefania Ilinca

Courses

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2022 Course Programme

Social media in global health: potentialities, risks, and new developments

Policy Options on Mental Health

NCD control in a global health perspective: Public health and systems strengthening approaches

Community-based participatory methods in public health

Strategic public health policy and planning in times of uncertainty: Using systems modelling for evidence-based decision making

Public Health Leadership for Global Health and Wellbeing

Wealth Inequality, Social Mobility and Health

Responding to disasters: the importance of Humanitarian Logistics

Is Breathing killing us? Tackling Air Pollution using science for policies to protect health

An introduction to health economics: how should we finance and organize our health care systems

Strategic Project Management

Designing Health Care: Improving patient and staff safety through Evidence-based Design

Promoting healthy behaviors through multi-level approaches

Moving forward in public health planning by learning (or not) from the past

How well is the health sector performing? Measuring expenditures and efficiencies to meet strategic objectives and inform policy and health system reforms