Public Health in Humanitarian contexts
This interactive one-week summer course will bring together leading thinkers and doers on public health in humanitarian contexts. With a team of practitioners from humanitarian organizations and participants from all over the world, we will discuss various urgent topics in humanitarian contexts.
Description
The Public Health in Humanitarian Contexts summer school is led by experienced practitioners and researchers from humanitarian organizations working across crisis-affected settings, including Gaza, Sudan, Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Yemen. Through interactive sessions and in-depth case studies, participants will explore urgent public health priorities in humanitarian contexts through a lens of intersectionality and equity. Topics include communicable diseases and outbreak response; sexual and reproductive health and rights; sexual and gender-based violence; nutrition; mental health and psychosocial support; and palliative and end-of-life care.
Lecturers
Lecturers of the 2026 Public health in humanitarian contexts will be shared soon
Target audience
This course is open to all with an interest in health in humanitarian contexts:
- Humanitarian responders including non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations
- Medical doctors, nurses, public health professionals, epidemiologists, bioethicists, sociologists, anthropologists, communications and advocacy professionals, project managers
- Policy makers including representatives of national and local authorities
- (PhD) researchers, from any discipline but with an affinity with humanitarian response
Aim of the course
Practitioners from different humanitarian organizations will provide interactive sessions, alternated by small group work, to address the following learning objectives:
- Understand the key concepts related to public health in humanitarian contexts
- Discuss key challenges related to public health in humanitarian contexts and strategies to address these
- Apply concepts discussed within the course to humanitarian contexts such as Gaza, Sudan, Bangladesh, DR Congo, South Sudan and Yemen
Study load
Full-time, one week in Utrecht (the Netherlands).
Costs
- Course fee: €740.00
- Included: Course + course materials + lunch
- Housing fee: €275
- Housing provider: Utrecht Summer School
This course has the following fee options, based on your individual circumstances and application date:
The fees include course materials, coffee, tea, fruit, Dutch cookies and a daily (vegetarian) lunch. These early bird registration fees apply until 1 April 2026.
*LMIC are low- and middle-income countries, as classified by the World Bank. Participants can apply for the LMIC fee based on the location of the institution which they are affiliated to. HIC are high-income countries, as classified by the World Bank. Erasmus+ KA107 or KA171 participants pay full fee.
**For participants working in the private sector, late bird HIC-fee applies (€900)
If you combine this summer school with other Global Health courses, there is an additional discount of € 30 per course. Please mention this in your application, so we can apply the discount.
Additional information
The housing costs do not include a Utrecht Summer School sleeping bag. This is a separate product on the invoice. If you wish to bring your own bedding, please deselect or remove the sleeping bag from your order.
Application
For this course you are required to upload the following documents when applying:
Motivation Letter
C.V.
