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Presentation of Final Projects for the 2013-2014 ISGlobal-University of Barcelona Masters Programmes

Students completing the Master of Global Health and Master of Clinical Research: International Health Track defend their theses in Barcelona

23.06.2014

To close the 2013/2014 academic year, students completing the Master of Global Health and Master of Clinical Research: International Health Track programmes defended their final projects before a tribunal. The presentations took place between 17 and 20 June in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona.

Throughout the one-year course each student prepared a project under the supervision of a tutor. The papers were written in English or Spanish—the two languages used to impart these Masters programmes.

Final Projects Submitted for the Master of Global Health

  • Cochrane Review: Mefloquine for prevention and treatment of malaria in pregnant women.
  • Strategies to measure adherence to anti tuberculosis therapy.
  • Strategies to increase access to Hepatitis C treatment: a question of price or public health? Study based on the situation in the Eastern European selected countries Russia, Ukraine and Georgia
  • Haemophilus ducreyi epidemiology: From genital ulcer in adults to skin ulcer in children.
  • Community-based interventions and sexual violence: Are they effective as a response providing health services in low income countries and/or conflict settings?
  • El desempeño de la atención primaria en Cataluña: evolución en un contexto de medidas de austeridad (2002-2012). (Primary care in Catalunya: Performance and change during a period of austerity [2002-2012]).
  • Case study on the feasibility of a shared data system in the Kenyan medical insurance sector as a means to reduce fraud

Final Projects Submitted for the Master of Clinical Research

  • Complexity of Plasmodium Falciparum infection in Mozambican pregnant women through var2csa, as transmission intensity marker
  • Human immunodeficiency virus seroprevalence and socio-economic status: evidence from semi-rural area of Southern Mozambique
  • The role of HIV infection in the frequency and etiology of diarrhea among children under 5 years of age in Manhiça – Rural, Mozambique as part of: Diarrhea Disease in Infants and Young Children in Developing Countries (GEMS)
  • Analysis of PfGMD expression in an engineered Plasmodium falciparum mutant
  • Effect of climate variability on malaria incidence patterns in Manhiça district, a rural area in Southern Mozambique

This is the second edition of both programmes in their current format. The Masters are organised jointly by ISGlobal and the University of Barcelona and represent the continuation of prior post-graduate courses. Pre-enrolment has opened for the 2014-2015 academic year and applicants can sign up on the web page of the course of their choice.

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Master of Global Health

Master of Clinical Research: International Health track

Photo album of the theses presentations