Prepare to address the unique challenges and complexities faced by health professionals globally and build your global health leadership capability.
For programs beginning in 2025
36
Full-Time
January 31, 2025, rolling thereafter until May 15, 2025
January 31, 2025
1 Year
Switzerland, Kenya, India
Global Health & Well-being
As global health crises increase, governments and healthcare practitioners must confront mass migration, natural disasters, and failing governance structures. The need for professionals to manage and oversee functioning healthcare systems has never been greater. This one-year master’s degree program features partnerships with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and other top-notch research institutes and medical centers. At the center of the action, you will gain hands-on training, expertise, and key management and leadership skills in the field of global health.
Begin your first semester in Geneva, Switzerland, where you will meet with health policymakers and engage with technical experts at WHO and the UN. From Geneva, you will travel to Milimani, Kenya, to the SIT center in the lakeside city of Kisumu in the Lake Victoria Basin. You will learn how high burdens of infectious and non-communicable diseases are managed under experts at the Kenya Medical Research Institute at the Centre for Global Health Research, which hosts the CDC.
During your second semester in New Delhi, India, drawing from SIT’s pool of resources, partner organizations, and health experts including the South East Asia Regional Office of the World Health Organization, you will explore how burgeoning populations handle diverse healthcare systems. Witness stark differences in healthcare standards, from urban to rural regions, and examine healthcare delivery, policy, design, administration, and management alongside NGOs, healthcare workers, activists, and community leaders.
In your final semester, self-design a practicum in a location of your choosing based on your own academic and professional goals. Our faculty will help guide you through SIT’s extensive network of partners across continents.
Led by co-chairs with extensive global experience specializing in epidemiology, gender, health, and human rights, you will attain an unparalleled understanding of how to meet today’s critical global issues facing healthcare professionals around the world.
Students who have graduated with this degree have worked in careers such as:
Global health consultant
Epidemiologist
Health policy analyst
Hospital manager
Technical expert for NGO or nonprofit
Global health educator
Global health researcher
Health administration expert
Biostatistician
Visit the SIT blog to read more about SIT Graduate Institute alumni careers.
The program is launched in Geneva, a global hub of major international health organizations including the World Health Organization, Médecins Sans Frontières, the International Committee of Red Cross, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. You will meet with health policymakers and engage with technical experts in WHO, and the UN. You will also enjoy the gastronomic and cultural riches of this city and bohemian districts like Carouge, a Mediterranean-style hamlet modeled after Nice. The program will also spend time in the beautiful city of Nyon, 15 minutes by train from Geneva, where SIT’s learning center also hosts another master’s program. The Swiss transport network is well connected and you may be able to travel to other towns such as Gland, Morges, and Lausanne.
Undertake your studies in Milimani and Kisumu, the third-largest city in Kenya, on the Lake Victoria Basin. Kenya has a high burden of tuberculosis and TB/HIV coinfection, and an high number of infectious and non-communicable diseases. SIT Kenya in Kisumu enjoys a strong, collaborative relationship with the Kenya Medical Research Institute at the Centre for Global Health Research, which also hosts the CDC, offering access to resources and experts.
SIT India, based in New Delhi, the capital of India, provides students with an excellent pool of resources and partner organizations including access to the South East Asia Regional Office of the World Health Organization. Visit primary, secondary and tertiary healthcaredelivery institutions in rural and urban India and hear from patients, doctors, health workers, activists, and community leaders about healthcare delivery, policy, design, administration, and management.
Click here for a description of the SIT center in India.
Conduct your practicum in Kenya, India, the United States, or any other country where SIT has its learning centers.
Please note that in order to take advantage of dynamic learning opportunities, program excursions may occasionally vary.
Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:
With SIT’s experiential curriculum, you will learn how to put theory into practice. In addition to core courses, a broad range of elective choices let you focus on topic areas that will help you meet your career goals.
The practicum is a cornerstone of SIT Global Master’s in Global Health. Apply learning from the classroom directly to real-world settings while getting hands-on, professional experience you can put to immediate use after you graduate.
For your final semester, SIT and your advisor will support you in finding an approved practicum with an international agency, think tank, NGO, government agency, or other organization involved in global health issues.
This experience will give you the opportunity to work in an area of your interest while expanding your professional network.
During the practicum phase, you will remain engaged with faculty and other students and receive course credit for documenting the integration of your knowledge and skills while working in a professional context. You will also complete and present a capstone paper reflecting on the experience, or undertake fieldwork or a project of your own design.
You will be supported by SIT staff on location in arranging housing during your time abroad. Stay in hostels (shared or private); a guesthouse (these are simple, inexpensive and clean, and may even include food); or ask to be placed with a homestay family to be immersed in local culture and customs. Please note that homestays are less expensive but also less independent.
SIT’s Student Financial Services Office provides guidance on all aspects of funding your degree throughout the application process and during your degree program. Tuition costs vary by program and scholarships are available.
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