Discipline: Pre-Medicine / Health Science

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

This course addresses some of the very core questions of public health science such as how to prevent people from becoming ill and how to promote good health. Over the course of three weeks, you will…

DIS Summer, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Health and Gender Inequalities: Past, Present, and Future

By looking into empirical, historical data and research, this course investigates how women’s health and wellbeing have been neglected historically because most doctors and research participants have been men. How has that impacted women’s health outcomes…

Health and Gender Inequalities: Past, Present, and Future

Public Mental Health

This course introduces you to the common mental disorders and their impact on daily life. We explore the different challenges faced by those with mental health conditions. Through peer-reviewed literature, policy briefs, popular media, and discussions…

Public Mental Health

Biomedical Lab

This course provides you with conceptual understanding of methodologies employed to examine the human body at various levels of organization, from organ systems to organs, tissues, cells, and molecules. This course provides you with corresponding hands-on…

DIS Summer Research and Lab Session

Public Health Policy in Practice

Sweden is facing a number of current challenges, including achieving cost-effectiveness in healthcare, and addressing public health concerns relating to migration and increasing inequalities. This course provides an overview of the Swedish health system in relation…

Medical Diagnostics

This course provides a unique opportunity to understand the rationale behind the design of multiple diagnostic tools used to predict, prevent, diagnose, and optimally treat disease. The emphasis is on the development and selection of appropriate…

Medical Diagnostics Summer DIS Stockholm

Sports Medicine: Performance and Fatigue

The course covers a general introduction to anatomy, kinesiology, and the biomechanics of human movement. You are introduced to analyses of movement in regard to dysfunctions that increase risk of injury. The effects of fatigue are…

Human Health and Disease: A Clinical Approach

This course offers an introduction to the most important human diseases, their diagnoses and treatments, and to the clinical practice of physicians at a Danish university hospital. You are taught by several different physicians at different…