Academic Courses for Students enrolled at the Graduate Institute

The GHP contributes to the academic teaching at the Graduate Institute through two courses:  

Global Health Diplomacy and Governance taught by Prof. Ilona Kickbusch, Director of the GHP. This course can be complemented by the course Global Public Health. Students are advised to take both courses to develop sound knowledge on the connected global and public health issues;

Global Public Health: Current and Emerging Issues taught by Dr. Nick Drager, Senior Fellow at the GHP. This course has been also a mandatory course for the joint LLM on Global Health Law with Georgetown University.

Global Health Diplomacy and Governance: This course explores the changing nature of Health Diplomacy in view of the different power shifts occurring in a multi polar world. It analyses the interaction between foreign policy and public health and the ways in which countries, international organisations and other actors have adapted their responses. This course will not be taught during the 2011/2012 Academic Year.

Global Public Health: Current and Emerging Issues. This course is designed to give the non-health specialist a broad understanding of current and emerging issues in global health and global health diplomacy in today’s globalised world.  The course covers cross cutting issues such as globalisation and health; macroeconomics and health; international trade law and health. It explores among others major global public health policies and programmes related to infectious diseases including pandemics, HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria, and non-communicable diseases. Click here for more information.

MASTER AND PhD's SUPERVISION

Prof. Ilona Kickbusch and Dr Nick Drager also supervise Master’s thesis and PhD candidates. Please find below information about past and ongoing students’ dissertations and theses.

Dissertations:

(Name. Dissertation Title. First Supervisor, Second Supervisor. Study Programme. Year)

Joung Eun Lee, Strategic Approach Towards Food Safety Standards in International Food Trade: Evidence from China's Groundnut Exports Case. Prof. Cédric Dupont, Prof. Nick Drager. MIA. 2011.

Didier Wernli. European voice in Global Health: the case of antimicrobial resistance. Prof. Ilona Kickbusch. MIA. 2010.

Volodymyr Valkov. Role of Innovation in Diplomacy: Development of Diplomatic Methods in Global Health. Prof. Ilona Kickbusch. MIA. 2010.

Dana Karen Ciccone. Improving Coordination of Global Health Actors: Proposal for a Committee C of the World Health Assembly. Prof. Ilona Kickbusch. MIA. 2010.

Miriam Faid. The Negotiation Process of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. A Multi-level Network Analysis. Prof. Cédric Dupont, Prof. Ilona Kickbusch. MIS. 2009.

Chantal Berger. The Cluster Approach in Humanitarian Reform: Has it fostered partnership? Prof. Ilona Kickbusch, Prof. Michael Barnett. MIA. 2009.

Katherine Anderson. Measuring the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria against current thinking in healthcare diplomacy. Prof. Ilona Kickbusch, Prof. Michael Barnett. MIA. 2009.

Marta Špillingová. Securitization of HIV/AIDS: Useful Tool or Political Bubble? Prof. Ilona Kickbusch, Prof. Keith Krause. MIA. 2009.

Theses (PhD)

(Name, PhD Title, First Supervisor, Second Supervisor, Study Programme, Starting Date, expected PhD: Year)

Carmel Bouclaous, Public Health, Food Systems and Sustainable Agriculture: The Case of Switzerland. Prof. Ilona Kickbusch, Prof.. Ronald Jaubert. PhD in Development Studies, Starting Date: Fall 2009, expected PhD: 2013

Miriam Faid, The Relationship of Foreign Policy and Global Health in South-South Health Cooperation, Prof. Cédric Dupont, Prof. Ilona Kickbusch. PhD in International Studies (Political Science). Starting Date: Fall 2009, expected PhD: 2013.