GHS students at the UN in NYC

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.

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The Global Health Studies Multidisciplinary Academic Program (GHS MAP) 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.

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Academics

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.

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GHS students in front of Horchow Hall

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.

Engaging with Global Health Policy

Read the latest news from the Global Health Studies program and its affiliated students and faculty.

Portrait of Aiken Wang

Aiken Wang awarded 2026 Beck Prize

The award is presented to undergraduates who have demonstrated a deep interest in and commitment to global affairs, with a preference for students interested in a career supporting national security.

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GHS students at the World Health Organization in Geneva

Engaging with Global Health Policy

GHS student Yana Jayampathy at a farm

Summer Opportunities

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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.

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student research in Africa

Research

GHS students conduct interviews, research and analysis which results in policy briefs, establishing their key findings and recommendations.

Upcoming events

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Orientation 2026

Yale Jackson’s annual orientation for incoming graduate students is designed to build community and introduce students to academic and social life at Jackson and at Yale. The Office of Student Affairs...

  • Horchow Hall, GM Room (103)

Blue Center Co-Lecture: U.S. Hard and Soft Power

The Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment will host a lecture on “U.S. Hard and Soft Power” as part of the center’s Co-Lectures in the Theory and Practice of Statecraft series. The lecture will...

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  • Horchow Hall, GM Room (103)