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Welcome to the Swedish Research School for Global Health - a partnership between Umeå University and Karolinska Institutet

Global health is a study of identification and evaluation of major public health challenges to the world population with an intention to considerably reduce the global burden of diseases, injuries and ill-health. The new discipline integrates expertise and perspectives from the field of public health, medicine, basic science, health economics, environmental sciences, anthropology and other behavioral sciences. Global health provides a new paradigm for research, education and information on challenges faced by world population.

Umeå University and Karolinska Institutet have received financial support from VR, the Swedish Research Council, to set up the Swedish Research School for Global Health. The support provides infrastructure for implementing better and improved research training in global health. In addition, the universities have undergraduate and master's programs in global health and recently both universities have created Centres for Global Health to provide a platform to focus on research on global health, concentrate resources and provide possibilities for making a contribution in reducing global poverty.

The doctoral programme is still in the process of development. The first recruitment took place during late spring 2008. Postgraduate students who are offered a position in the programme must be enrolled in and receive funding from their home departments. Thus, the Swedish Research School in Global Health serves as an umbrella organisation for interdisciplinary encounters - through seminars, courses and workshops - and gives students access to both national and international networks.