Global Public Health in Action: Tackling Health Inequalities and Advancing Wellbeing

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This innovative summer school offers a unique interdisciplinary learning experience that explores wicked global public health challenges through the lens of health, wellbeing, and sport. Set in the School of Health and Wellbeing, against the backdrop of the Commonwealth Games, the programme will harness the energy and visibility of the sporting event to inspire transformative approaches to public health.

Participants will engage in interactive lectures, hands-on workshops, guided by international experts in suicide prevention, public health, smoking cessation, nutrition, mental health, and physical wellbeing. The programme will emphasise real-world application, empowering participants to understand innovative, evidence-based interventions that promote health equity and sustainable wellbeing.

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Key information

Course Length: Four weeks

Arrival Date: Thursday 9th July 2026

Orientation Date: Friday 10th July 2026

Course Starts: Monday 13th July 2026

Course Ends: Friday 7th August 2026

Accommodation check out: Sunday 9th August 2026

Credits: 20

Tuition fee: TBC

Accommodation cost: TBC

Application Deadline: April 2026 

What you will learn

This course aims to equip students with interdisciplinary knowledge and practical skills to address complex global public health challenges through innovative, evidence-based approaches, using the themes of health, wellbeing, and sport, leveraging the context of the Commonwealth Games to inspire transformative solutions that promote health equity and sustainable wellbeing.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Analyse complex global public health challenges through an interdisciplinary lens, integrating perspectives from health, wellbeing, and sport.
  • Evaluate and apply evidence-based public health interventions, including those related to smoking cessation, nutrition, mental health, and physical activity to improve health.

Teaching pattern

Interative lecture in the morning and workshop/seminar in the afternoon.

Entry requirements

  • GPA of 3.0 (or equivalent)
  • you should be currently enrolled at an international higher education institution.

Open to non medical students, no clinical background is needed. 

If your first language is not English, you must meet our minimum proficiency level:

  • International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic module (not General Training) overall score of 6.0, with no sub test less than 5.5
  • we also accept equivalent scores in other recognised qualifications such as ibTOEFL, CAE, CPE and more.

This is a guide, for further information email internationalsummerschools@glasgow.ac.uk