The MGH curriculum provides the educational and professional foundation for global health work.

All core first and second year courses are offered once per academic year. MGH students are required to take core courses at the time they are scheduled for their assigned cohort. You will complete ten 3-credit core courses and three 3-credit electives in foundational global health knowledge, research skills, policies, and management to prepare them to take on a broad range of global health issues. Student must also complete a 6-credit practicum that investigates a GH-oriented problem or issue.

Graduates of the program will be able to:

• Describe and appraise major causes of morbidity and mortality around the world, their regional variations, and major ongoing efforts to reduce disparities. 
• Effectively communicate with diverse audiences, practice cultural humility, and build collaborative networks with international partners (e.g., governments, not-for-profit organizations, etc.) and interdisciplinary researchers to promote global health objectives. 
• Critically analyze a variety of data types related to major global and environmental determinants of health such as climate change, particulate air pollution, and safe water availability to identify trends, concerns, causes, and potential solutions.  
• Discuss major global environmental determinants of health, such as climate change, particulate air pollution, and safe water availability, and work collaboratively to develop policies intended to alleviate inequities.
• Evaluate health governance policy and practices of regions and countries critically with respect to social determinants of health and access to health services to identify trends, patterns, problems, possible solutions and exemplars that can contribute to better health outcomes. 
• Use ethical concepts and theories to evaluate and effectively communicate proposals about how global health equity challenges should be addressed, especially in connection with colonialism. 
• Work with geographically and culturally diverse partners to design, implement, manage, and evaluate evidence-based and ethical programs that advance global health in a professional and ethical manner.