Closing Events of the Master of Global Health Programme

The first edition of the new Master of Global Health—one of the first graduate programmes in Spain dealing with health from a global and multidisciplinary perspective—concluded on 13 and 14 June with the students' defense of their final theses.

The work of each student has been supervised throughout the academic year by a tutor, and the theses presented covered a wide variety of topics.

• Mapping study of women's and children's health research networks and existing activities of networks
• Official development assistance policies in a developing country: Brazil
• Analysis of official development assistance flows in Morocco: 2007-2011
• HIV in ethnic minority men who have sex with men in Europe
• Antiretroviral treatment under scrutiny
• Overweight and obesity in Arab Gulf countries: the Government influence on the prevalence
• The impact of international drug control on public health: drug use in the United States and drug violence in Mexico
• HIV seroprevalence and risk behaviours among street youth in East Europe: a systematic review
• Maternal vaccination against group B streptococcus, a new strategy
• Violence against polio vaccination workers in Pakistan: What is the role forGlobal Health Diplomacy?

The ISGlobal-University of Barcelona Master of Global Health program has inherited the legacy of the former Master in Tropical Medicine and International Health, a reference point of excellence in Spain for many years. Pre-enrolment for the second edition of this program is now open; details can be found on the ISGlobal website.

On Monday 17 June 2013 Dr. Núria Casamitjana, training and education director at ISGlobal will present the postgraduate programmes in the field of health organised by ISGlobal and the University of Barcelona for 2013-2014. The presentation will be streamed live and questions will be accepted via chat and social networks. This is the link to follow the webinar live.