Course overview
The key objective in this curricular unit is to provide students with the core conceptual knowledge on humanitarian action in its different modes. Core knowledge will be articulated with fundamental principles, debates and dilemmas that emerge in practice. It aims at developing students’ critical analytical skills grounding key concepts of humanitarian action and becoming familiar with literature and a set of instruments. Students will identify the main dilemmas associated with humanitarian intervention at the ethical, political and social levels.

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The CU of Public Health in Humanitarian Action aims to provide students (from the Master’s Degree in Humanitarian Action or other Masters) with knowledge and an integrated vision of Public Health to populations affected disasters (both natural disasters and conflicts) in different theories, principles and practices, in a multidisciplinary and multidimensional perspective. This CU articulates the theoretical and the practical vision, highlighting constraints to action from the perspective of humanitarian agencies, of the humanitarian worker in the field, and focuses on the experiences of those affected crises.
This CU includes a global and local view on the nature of disasters and humanitarian crises; how these affect lives and livelihoods; the diseases that occur as a result of these crises and how to respond to the basic public health needs of a population (water and sanitation, shelter, nutrition and protection, etc.), for the development and implementation of programs.

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This curricular unit aims at capacitating its participants with general knowledge regarding management of organizations and processes of humanitarian nature, with special focus on management techniques and methods applicable in humanitarian context. This curricular unit aims at highlighting management innovations that can be of particular use in day-to-day context in humanitarian organizations.

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The curricular unit Research Design has as main goal to provide master students the fundamental conceptual and operative tools for the design of a social sciences research and/or intervention project. Being a common curricular unit to different master programs, it is designed for the accomplishment of a final objective: to provide sudents the means to develop their own project.

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Present and develop the concepts, methodologies and tools needed for an effective management of projects in a diversity of scenarios.

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Reinforce the evaluation culture in planning and implementation of social services in humanitarian action settings;
Connect theorical and methodological developments in participatory evaluation in humanitarian action;
Increase the use of evaluation to improve accountability and learning from experience in humanitarian interventions;
Disseminate the knowledge of participatory evaluation professionals and volunteers of humanitarian action;
Develop a common approach to participatory evaluation in different geographies, with a special focus in action European, Middle Eastern and Latin American institutions in their experience in different regions of the world;
Make the impact and effects of humanitarian action on beneficiaries more visible.

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Provide students with the theoretical foundations to understand and critically engage in the interplay between environmental risks, humanitarian settings, resilience, and sustainable development;
Provide a comprehensive overview of how international frameworks and governance structures address environmental risks and resilience-building efforts, emphasizing the role of local policymaking and practical applications;
Familiarize students with contemporary social-ecological issues associated with humanitarian work in the concrete examples of communities facing environmental challenges and their responses;
Encourage the exploration and application of novel tools, technologies, and practices for a tailored approach to specific environmental risks;
Offer conceptual and practical tools to study the impacts of global challenges on situated contexts of disaster risk reduction, community engagement, and resilience building.

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This course provides new perspectives and a broader interdisciplinary approach to contemporary and future public health work. Integrating knowledge from sociology, economics, ethics, and global health, the course offers students a comprehensive understanding of public health practice and the pressing challenges faced worldwide.

A key focus is placed on understanding public health within a global framework and considering sustainability as an overarching theme. The life course perspective is also central to the course, helping students to grasp how health evolves across different life stages, from birth to old age.

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Technology and innovation is an integral part of healthcare, in both developing and developed countries. While understanding key concepts of epidemiology, health management and statistics are common topics to the study of Global Health, few courses focus on the importance of technology and innovation, its history, its present and future, and its inherent challenges. The course PH3002 will introduce these key ideas in an interactive way using examples that have been successfully implemented and those that failed. We will analyze the key attributes of success and failures of technology in this course. This course will offer students hands-on experience to design innovation cycle and the importance of technology in improving overall health outcomes in global health. The course will focus on the process of technology, development, optimization and implementation in low middle and high income countries. We will also focus on when and why technology is needed, when it is necessary, and what information it can and cannot provide. In that regard, issues of ethics will also come into play. In addition, the course will provide overview on the current state of technology and what the future technological needs may be. During this course, we will also focus on three kinds of technologies:

1. Successful examples of technology implementation
2. Near-misses
3. Those that failed despite showing promise in early/ prototype stages.

These lessons will guide the framework of our discussion about the need of innovation in global health.  Finally, we will also study the current bottlenecks, including social, technological and financial, that may hinder technology development and adoption in resource limited settings.

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Humanitarian design is a term that can be used to describe the process of designing products, services or systems for populations affected natural and/or man-made disasters. The course aims to develop students’ knowledge of designing design interventions for a humanitarian market. The course aims to develop an individual and team-based agency to work through design in increased unpredictability, with marginalised populations and with multi-stakeholders including humanitarian organisations, private and public stakeholders. The course will consist of a case-based process, complemented lectures and theories from humanitarian design, design anthropology, service innovation, scenario building, contingency planning and entrepreneurial mindsets.  The course will also introduce examples of the role of technology in humanitarian relief.

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The course requires basic knowledge on qualitative methods. The course provides in-depth knowledge of qualitative methods with relevance for medicine and health science. Its focus is the necessary consistence in each study between aim, design, data collection and analytical approach. Learning activities concentrate on analysis, presentation of results, and the evaluation of quality and research ethics. Several analytical approaches will be presented, including how such analysis is conducted.

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The course requires basic knowledge of quantitative methods in medicine and health sciences. The course will introduce more advanced statistical methods and epidemiological concepts. The teaching will emphasize correspondence between research questions, study planning and design, data collection and analytical approach. A central topic will be performing and interpreting multivariable regression analyzes to estimate causal relationships, including linear and logistic regression, as well as survival analyses. Topics such as handling missing data, random and systematic errors, effect modification and non-parametric tests are also covered.

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This module aims to provide knowledge on how the environment and climate change shape and inform the development and design of humanitarian interventions, and how to analyze existing or future environmental interventions, in terms of strategies and policies at global, continental, regional, and societal levels. Additionally, it focuses on global and country-specific environmental policies, articulates the skills that are required for environmental planning and management in different settings, and critical discussions on the key international, national, and local policy and programming frameworks on the environment and sustainable development.

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This module provides a holistic approach to understanding the interaction between conflict, insecurity development, and underdevelopment, as well as analyzing the conceptual, historical, and policy issues surrounding security and development. It will critically examine how specific development challenges before, during, and after armed conflict raise wider questions about international security and the dilemmas generated the interdependence of security and development issues in international affairs.

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This course will enable students to examine how people cope with traumatic and often unpredictable situations such as displacement due to natural disasters or conflicts developing and utilizing emotional social and material resources.

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The internship will consist of fieldwork in a social impact institution in which the students will develop knowledge of agencies’ policies, goals, functions, and challenges in social and cultural contexts and assess issues of concern regarding working with refugees. It will provide a theoretical framework used to guide assessment, the importance of ongoing competency building in practice, as well as cultural and ethical sensitivity in dealing with refugees, other vulnerable populations, and host communities. This module is directed at the application of and integration of theories into practice (experiential learning). Students will immerse themselves in a designated organisation and learn doing engaging in interdisciplinary teams and with service users. Students will apply theoretical knowledge, social work and humanitarian values and principles, and practice skills in an organisation that provides services to refugees.