Global Health Studies
Global health is powerful, multifaceted, and calls for interdisciplinary analysis – engaging with economics, history, and politics, as well as with anthropology, law, and sociology, in addition to epidemiology, public health, and medical sciences. The Global Health Studies program provides students with opportunities to engage in interdisciplinary learning, practical training, extracurricular engagement, and collaborative research across sectors.
ApplyThe Global Health Studies (GHS) program offers undergraduate students at Yale College the opportunity to engage critically and analytically in global health from multiple disciplinary approaches and perspectives. The program supports students in developing and balancing an appreciation for biomedical and technical issues related to diseases, their treatment and prevention, with an understanding of the historical, social, economic and political concerns that are implicated in how health is determined and experienced in the 21st century.
The program also exposes students to relevant research methodologies to develop their understanding of how knowledge in global health is constructed and how these approaches could inform their academic pursuits and future careers.
Interdisciplinary Learning
The Global Health Studies program provides students rigorous training in and engagement with skills and knowledge relevant to global health research and practice. Beyond the academic components, it also offers students the opportunity to build and learn from a rich, interdisciplinary community of peers, scholars, and advocates who convene and collaborate on social events, workshops, speaker series, and other extracurricular activities.
More about the ProgramEngaging with Global Health Policy
Read the latest news from the Global Health Studies program and its affiliated students and faculty.
Yale faculty bring evidence of war’s biological legacy to United Nations General Assembly
Catherine Panter-Brick and Bonnie Weir of Yale Jackson School joined researchers and practitioners at the UN General Assembly to present evidence that war trauma alters gene expression across generations — and that early childhood investment can break the cycle.
Summer Opportunities
The Global Health Studies program offers several opportunities for affiliated students to conduct research and complete internships that supplement their global health coursework.
Learn more
People
Meet the faculty members who teach the core courses of the GHS program and the interdisciplinary group of scholars, researchers and practitioners in global health who offer advising and support to Global Health Scholars.
Learn more
Research
GHS students conduct interviews, research and analysis which results in policy briefs, establishing their key findings and recommendations.