Viewing the Global Health Academy

Students from across the university have contributed to a short film about the Global Health Academy.

The video, created by students at the academy, has won the first prize in a short film competition for postgraduate students run by the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.

The video demonstrates the huge diversity of nationalities, professions and interests of students enrolled on distance learning postgraduate programmes with the Global Health Academy.

University of Edinburgh Global Health Academy - Short Film Competition Entry 2011

Global Health Academy

The University of Edinburgh’s Global Health Academy is a collaboration across the University.

It promotes an interdisciplinary approach to education and research in order to have a greater impact on global health issues.

The academy brings together academics and experts from a wide variety of disciplines who share the common aim of developing innovative solutions for the world’s most challenging health problems.

Recent projects include examining the effects of parasites and the immune system and developing health system models to combat some of the major causes of child mortality, including diarrhoea, HIV, malaria and measles.

This article was published on Mar 27, 2012